6th arrondissement

As with itself, the 6th Arrondissement is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Orsay Museum and Collège de France.

Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a in , France, on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900.

University
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The , founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in . It is located in near .

College
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or Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies, is a public research university located in , France, that holds the status of grande école and the legal status of grand établissement.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 5th arrondissement and Left Bank.

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The of Paris is one of the best known of the city's central districts, located on the Left Bank of the river Seine. Also commonly known as the "Latin Quarter" because the first great Parisian university, the Sorbonne, was founded here and Latin was the language the medieval period students used once to speak.

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The in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the capital city of . The defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…

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The centre of contemporary and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.

6th arrondissement

Latitude
48.85043° or 48° 51′ 2″ north
Longitude
2.33295° or 2° 19′ 59″ east
Population
40,200
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V82M+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 161608370
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2997000
Wiki­data ID
Q245546
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“6th arrondissement” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدائرة السادسة في باريس”
  • Arabic: “الدائرة السادسة”
  • Armenian: “Փարիզի 6-րդ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “VI Distritu de París”
  • Azerbaijani: “VI arondisman”
  • Balinese: “Arondisemén ka-6 Paris”
  • Basque: “Parisko 6. barrutia”
  • Belarusian: “VI акруга Парыжа”
  • Bengali: “প্যারিসের ৬ষ্ঠ আরোঁদিসমঁ”
  • Breton: “6vet arondisamant”
  • Catalan: “6è districte de París”
  • Chinese: “Pa-lí 6 khu”
  • Chinese: “圣叙尔比斯教堂”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第六区”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第六區”
  • Chinese: “第六区”
  • Cornish: “6ves arrondissement Paris”
  • Czech: “6. pařížský obvod”
  • Danish: “6. arrondissement i Paris”
  • Dutch: “6e arrondissement (Parijs)”
  • Dutch: “6e arrondissement van Parijs”
  • Dutch: “6e arrondissement”
  • Dutch: “Saint-Sulpice”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حى پاريس السادس”
  • Erzya: “Парижэнь VI-це кужо”
  • Esperanto: “6-a arondismento de Parizo”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi 6. ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi VI ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Saint-Sulpice”
  • Finnish: “6. arrondissementti”
  • French: “6e arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “6e Arrondissement”
  • French: “75006”
  • French: “arrondissement du Luxembourg”
  • French: “Paris 06”
  • French: “Paris 6e”
  • French: “VIe arrondissement”
  • Galician: “6º distrito de París”
  • Georgian: “პარიზის VI რაიონი”
  • German: “6. Arrondissement von Paris”
  • German: “6. Arrondissement”
  • German: “St. Sulpice”
  • Greek: “6ο Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Παρισιού”
  • Greek: “6ο δημοτικό διαμέρισμα του Παρισιού”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע השישי של פריז”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע השישי”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית סן-סולפיס”
  • Hungarian: “Párizs 6. kerülete”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-6 Paris”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-6”
  • Irish: “6ú arrondissement Pháras”
  • Italian: “Chiesa di Saint Sulpice”
  • Italian: “VI arrondissement di Parigi”
  • Japanese: “6区 (パリ)”
  • Japanese: “6区”
  • Korean: “6구”
  • Korean: “파리 6구”
  • Latin: “Circumdarium VI Lutetiae”
  • Luxembourgish: “6. Arrondissement vu Paräis”
  • Luxembourgish: “6. Arrondissement”
  • Luxembourgish: “arrondissement du Luxembourg”
  • Macedonian: “VI округ во Париз”
  • Malay: “Daerah 6”
  • Maltese: “sitt arrondissement ta‘ Pariġi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí 6 khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “6. arrondissement”
  • Norwegian: “6. arrondissement”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “VI arrondiment de París”
  • Ossetian: “Парижы VI-æм зылд”
  • Persian: “منطقه ۶ پاریس”
  • Polish: “6. dzielnica Paryża”
  • Portuguese: “6.º arrondissement de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “6.º distrito de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “6º arrondissement”
  • Romanian: “Arondismentul 6 din Paris”
  • Russian: “VI округ Парижа”
  • Russian: “VI округ”
  • Scots: “6t arrondissement o Paris”
  • Serbian: “6. арондисман Париза”
  • Slovak: “6. obvod”
  • Slovenian: “6. okrožje Pariza”
  • Slovenian: “6. pariško okrožje”
  • Spanish: “VI Arrondissement de Paris”
  • Spanish: “VI Arrondissement de París”
  • Spanish: “VI Distrito de Paris”
  • Spanish: “VI distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “VI Distrito de París”
  • Swedish: “6ème arrondissement”
  • Swedish: “Paris sjätte arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “6. arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “Paris 6. bölge”
  • Ukrainian: “VI округ Парижа”
  • Ukrainian: “VI округ”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا چھٹا آرونڈسمینٹ”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا چھٹا اراؤنڈڈسمنٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 6, Paris”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 6”
  • Welsh: “6th arrondissement of Paris”

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