Arrondissement

An arrondissement is an administrative division in some French or Dutch-speaking countries:

France

Municipal arrondissement

Main article: Municipal arrondissement in France

Paris

Main article: Arrondissements of Paris

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

Marseille and Lyon

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

Departmental arrondissement

Main article: Arrondissements of 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 sous-préfecture.

Belgium

Main article: Arrondissements of Belgium

The federalized country Belgium geographically consists of 3 regions, of which only Flanders ( = the Flemish region) and Wallonia (= the Walloon region) are subdivided into 5 provinces each; the Brussels Capital Region is neither a province nor is it part of one.

The remainder of this chapter was unambiguously translated on 2006-05-22 from the Dutch language Wikipedia (last changed 2006-05-05):

In Belgium there are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.

• The 43 administrative arrondissements are an administrative level between the municipalities and the provinces. Per region an overview of its municipalities (gemeenten/communes) and the district or administrative arrondissement these belong to can be found in the Municipalities of Belgium page; for these administrative arrondissements also more technical references are available.
• Belgium has 27 judicial arrondissements.
• Until a short while ago the electoral circles for the parliaments were electoral arrondissements; at present these circles are the provinces, except for the arrondissements Brussels-Capital (geographically coinciding with the Brussels Capital Region) and Halle-Vilvoorde (one of the two districts in the province Flemish Brabant in the Flemish region), which together still form the electoral circle Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (in Dutch kieskring Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde, in French cercle or circonscription électoral Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde).
  • For the elections of the Walloon Parliament, 13 arrondissements (or grouped arrondissements) are still being used as electoral circles:
    • Arlon - Marche-en-Famenne - Bastogne
    • Mons
    • Charleroi
    • Dinant - Philippeville
    • Tournai - Ath - Mouscron
    • Huy - Waremme
    • Liège
    • Namur
    • Neufchâteau - Virton
    • Nivelles
    • Thuin
    • Verviers
    • Soignies

Netherlands

In the Netherlands an arrondissement is a judicial jurisdiction, comprising a number of communes.

Canada

Quebec

Further information: Montreal borough, List of Quebec City boroughs

In Quebec, the cities of Montreal, Québec City, Saguenay, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, Gatineau and the municipality of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into arrondissements (called boroughs in English).

Haiti

Each of Haiti's ten departments is sub-divided into arrondissements.

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