The land area of this arrondissement is 16. 305 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( or 4, 029 acres ), slightly more than half of which consists of the Bois de Boulogne park.

The arrondissement consists of the following municipalities ( in total accounting for around 1, 595, 000 inhabitants on 1 January 2006 ):

Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including the chef-lieu, " chief place ", from which the canton takes its name.

The arrondissement contains other cantons that extend generally up the two rivers into central Corsica.

Located in the arrondissement of La Rochelle, Île de Ré includes two cantons: Saint-Martin-de-Ré eastwards and Ars-en-Ré westwards.

There is a single arrondissement ( Belfort ), which is sub-divided into 15 cantons and thence into 101 communes.

Département: Territoire de Belfort ( 1 arrondissement ; 15 cantons ; 101 communes )

It is divided into two cantons of the arrondissement ( district ) of Oloron-Sainte-Marie ( Mauleon-Licharre and Tardets-Sorholus ), and a part of the canton of Saint Palais ( arrondissement of Bayonne ).

The arrondissement has 7 cantons, 125 communes and 112, 020 residents.

The following is a list of the 44 cantons of the Bas-Rhin department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The cantons of the arrondissement of Sens are:

The following is the list of the 42 cantons of the Yonne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 77 cantons ( districts ) of the Pas-de-Calais department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The Canton of Douvrin is one of the 14 cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune, in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France.

The cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune are:

The following is a list of the 33 cantons of the Aube department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lens are:

The following is a list of the 43 cantons of the Seine-et-Marne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 54 cantons of the Rhône department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lyon are:

The following is a list of the 49 cantons of the Hérault department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France.

The following is a list of the 41 cantons of the Loiret department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 49 cantons of the Calvados department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 31 cantons of the Haut-Rhin department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

In Quebec, the term borough is generally used as the English translation of arrondissement, referring to an administrative division of a municipality.

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

He fell seriously ill in February 1929 and was taken to the Hôpital Cochin in the 14th arrondissement, a free hospital where medical students were trained.

In Boulogne-sur-Seine and the 16th arrondissement of Paris, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed and built the Villa Lipschitz, Maison Cook ( see William Edwards Cook ), Maison Planeix, and the Maison La Roche / Albert Jeanneret, which now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier.

The French royal Order of Saint Louis ( 1693 – 1790 and 1814 – 1830 ), the Île Saint-Louis as well as a hospital in the 10th arrondissement of Paris also bear his name.

Conversely, the Republic of Texas embassy in Paris was located in what is now the Hotel de Vendome, adjacent to the Place Vendôme in Paris ' 2e arrondissement.

On 5 February 2012, there were munitions explosions at a tank regiment ( seemingly ' Regiment Blinde ') barracks located in Brazzaville's fifth arrondissement, Ouenze.

The Lycée Condorcet in the rue du Havre, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris is named in his honour.

Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil.

The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture ( sous-préfecture ) or chef-lieu d ' arrondissement.

There are currently 20, 000 speakers of a subset of the Dutch dialect West Flemish in the arrondissement of Dunkirk and this particular subset is in danger of extinction within decades.

France received a large settlement of Chinese immigrant laborers, mostly from the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province of China ( to this day, France continues to attract many Chinese immigrants from this particular province ; Paris, Chinatowns in Belleville, and the XIIIème arrondissement of Paris, both making the Paris Region home to the largest Chinese population in Europe.

Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill on its roof.

The commune of Dakar, whose population approached 1 million inhabitants, was deemed too large and too populated to be properly managed by a central municipality, and thus on August 30, 1996 Dakar was divided into 19 communes d ' arrondissement.

These communes d ' arrondissement were given extensive powers, and are very much like regular communes.

The commune of Dakar was maintained above these 19 communes d ' arrondissement, and it coordinates the activities of the communes d ' arrondissement, much as Greater London coordinates the activities of the London boroughs.

The 19 communes d ' arrondissement belong to either of the four arrondissements of Dakar, and the sous-préfet of each arrondissement is in charge of controlling the activities of the communes d ' arrondissement in his arrondissement.

The commune d ' arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau ( 34, 626 inhabitants ), in the arrondissement of Plateau / Gorée, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.