Arrondissements of Paris

The 20 Paris arrondissements (districts) are like 20 little cities, where Parisians live. On the map you can see that the Paris arrondissements are like a spiral or a snail, starting at the western tip of Île de la Cité with the 1st Arrondissement, running in a clockwise direction until the 20th Arrondissement. 

 

 

The districts in Paris in French. The animation let You understand :)

Les arrondissements de Paris.

 

By the way there is a 21st arrondissement. Parisian joke so about Deauville in Normandy - the luxurious and closest seaside resort to Paris.

As Paris grew from a small town on the Islands, it required more space and more districts. Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Napoleon III made official the annexation of eleven communes around Paris to the City and made the biggest reconstruction of the city from 1853 to 1870. The annexation increased the size to the present twenty arrondissements. 

 

 

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