Arrondissements of the Paris department
- Arrondissements of the Paris department
In this article, the word "arrondissement" refers to the French administrative divisions of départements known as "arrondissements". Paris is both a city and a département. Départements usually contain two or more arrondissements but Paris, as a département, consists of a single "arrondissement". By way of consequence, that system has little practical use and is hardly referenced in the context of Paris.
As a city, Paris, like Lyon and Marseille, is divided into a number of districts. These districts are also called "arrondissements" (see Municipal arrondissement in France), but they should not confused with the previous arrondissements: arrondissements in a department have a purely administrative function, while arrondissements in a city have a limited political power: they have an elected council with a mayor. See Arrondissement of Paris for more details on the 20 arrondissements of Paris. The word "arrondissements", when applied to Paris, usually refers to municipal arrondissements.
The population of Paris was 2,152,423 in 1990, and was 2,125,246 in 1999, a decrease of 1.26%.
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