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Encyclopedia > Arrondissements

An arrondissement is an administrative division in some francophone countries:

Contents
1 France

1.1 Paris
1.2 Marseille and Lyon
1.3 Administrative division of France

2 Belgium
3 Canada

3.1 Montreal

France

Paris

Main article: Arrondissements of Paris


The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements.


Marseille and Lyon

The French cities Marseille and Lyon are also divided into arrondissements.


Administrative division of France

Main article: Arrondissement in France


Arrondissement is also the name of the subdivisions of the French départements (but the word is barely used in this meaning). The capital city of an arrondissement is the Belgium, the nation is divided into provinces, which are in turn subdivided into arrondissements. Each arrondissement comprised of communes.


Canada

In Canada's province of Québec, the cities of Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, Saguenay, Longueuil and Sherbrooke are divided into arrondissements (called boroughs in English).


Montreal

Borough Borough Borough
Ahuntsic/Cartierville LaSalle Rivière-des-Prairies/Pointe-aux-Trembles/Montréal-Est


Anjou L'Île-Bizard/Sainte-Geneviève/Sainte_Anne_de_Bellevue Rosemont/Petite-Patrie
Beaconsfield/Baie-d'Urfé Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Saint-Laurent


Côte-des-Neiges/Notre_Dame_de_Grâce Montréal-Nord Saint-Léonard
Côte-Saint-Luc/Hampstead/Montréal-Ouest Mont-Royal Sud-Ouest (consisting of Point-Saint-Charles, Saint-Henri, Ville-Émard, Côte-Saint-Paul & Petite-Bourgogne)
Dollard-des-Ormeaux/Roxboro Outremont Verdun
Dorval/L'Île_Dorval Pierrefonds/Senneville Ville-Marie (consisting of Downtown, Old Montreal, & the Gay Village)
Kirkland Plateau Mont-Royal Villeray/Saint-Michel/Parc-Extension
Lachine Pointe-Claire Westmount
Italics: part of former city of Montreal



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Arrondissement - LoveToKnow 1911 (284 words)
It is the electoral district for the chamber of deputies, each arrondissement returning one member; if the population is in excess of ioo,000 it is divided into two or more constituencies.
Each arrondissement has a council, with as many members as there are cantons, whose function is to subdivide among the communes their quota of the direct taxes charged to the arrondissement by the general council of the department.
(See France.) Somewhat different from the arrondissements of the department are the arrondissements (20 in number) into which Paris is divided.
Arrondissements of Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (253 words)
These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements, which subdivide the 100 French départements.
The 20 arrondissements are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting with the 1st in the middle of the city on the right bank (north bank) of the Seine River.
The previous 12 arrondissements were rearranged with this new territory to become the present 20.
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