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An arrondissement is an administrative division in some francophone countries:

1 France

1.1 Paris

Main article: Arrondissements of Paris

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

1.2 Marseille and Lyon

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

1.3 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 sous-préfecture

2 Belgium

In Belgium, the nation is divided into provinces, which are in turn subdivided into arrondissements. Each arrondissement comprised of communes.

3 Canada

In Canada's province of Québec, the cities of Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, SaguenaySaguenay (officially Ville de Saguenay is a city ( 2001 pop. 148,050) in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about 150 kilometres north of Quebec City. The city was formed on February 18, 2002, by the merger of the, LongueuilLongueuil is a city in extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from Montreal, of which it is a suburb. The city was merged on January 1, 2002 with the communities of Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Par and SherbrookeSherbrooke ( 2001 population 75,916, post-merger population 141,200) is a city in south-eastern Quebec, Canada. It is the only major city in the Eastern Townships. Although originally settled in the early 19th century by anglophones, it is today a primari are divided into arrondissements (called boroughA borough is a political division originally used in England. The equivalent, burgh was used in Scotland. Bury often ends towns' names in the South of England, but borough more often in the Midlands. Bury is more common in America's New England — but burgs in English).

3.1 Montreal

BoroughBoroughBorough
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


Subnational entities

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