The Complete Paris Arrondissements Guide to Know Everything about Arrondissements of Paris
A Parisian’s guide to explore everything in Paris neighbourhoods.
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9 min readFeb 29, 2020
Paris
Paris is divided into 20 Arrondissements. Every arrondissement of Paris is distinguished from the other one and has lots of attractive places to explore.
These twenty arrondissements are arranged like clockwise, and the last two digits of postal code tell the arrondissement.75002 is the postal code of the second arrondissement then 75003 is the postal code of third arrondissement and vice versa.
On 11 October 1795, Paris was divided into twelve arrondissements and each arrondissement was subdivided into four quarters. In 1850, Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann developed a plan to include many surrounding communes under Paris admistratation, therefor in 1859 the 20th arrondissment plan were implemented.
