4th arrondissement
The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.Photo: Vincent Desjardins, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Björn Söderqvist, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 28,300 residents
- Description: one of the 20 administrative districts of Paris, France
- Also known as: “4th Arrondissement”, “4th arrondissement of Paris”, and “IVe Arrondissement”
- Postal code: 75004
- Neighbors: 1st arrondissement, 2nd arrondissement, 3rd arrondissement, 5th arrondissement, 6th arrondissement, 11th arrondissement, and 12th arrondissement
Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre Dame de Paris and Centre Georges Pompidou.
Notre Dame de Paris
Church
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notre-Dame de Paris, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Centre Georges Pompidou
Arts center
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France.
Ruins of Bastille
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris, known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include 3rd arrondissement and 5th arrondissement.
3rd arrondissement
Photo: Pol, Public domain.
A quieter part of the ancient Marais neighbourhood which is centred in the 4th, the 3rd is possibly one of the best places to live in Paris. There are several good open air markets and lots of great local designer clothing stores.
5th arrondissement
Photo: K’m, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The 5th Arrondissement 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.
Left Bank
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
The Left Bank in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the French capital city of Paris. The Left Bank defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…
4th arrondissement
- Categories: municipal arrondissement of France, city district, and locality
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.8562° or 48° 51′ 22″ northLongitude
2.35562° or 2° 21′ 20″ eastPopulation
28,300Open location code
8FW4V944+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 938323516OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q230127
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“4th arrondissement” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الدائرة الرابعة في باريس”
- Arabic: “الدائرة الرابعة”
- Armenian: “Փարիզի 4-րդ շրջան”
- Asturian: “IV Distritu de París”
- Azerbaijani: “IV arondisman”
- Azerbaijani: “IV arondisman”
- Basque: “Parisko 4. barrutia”
- Belarusian: “4-я акруга Парыжу”
- Belarusian: “IV акруга Парыжа”
- Belarusian: “IV акруга Парыжу”
- Bengali: “প্যারিসের ৪র্থ আরোঁদিসমঁ”
- Bosnian: “4. arondisman”
- Breton: “4e arondisamant”
- Catalan: “4t districte de París”
- Chinese: “Pa-lí 4 khu”
- Chinese: “巴黎第4區”
- Chinese: “巴黎第四区”
- Chinese: “巴黎第四區”
- Chinese: “第四区”
- Czech: “4. pařížský obvod”
- Danish: “4. arrondissement i Paris”
- Dutch: “4e arrondissement (Parijs)”
- Dutch: “4e arrondissement van Parijs”
- Dutch: “4e arrondissement”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حى پاريس الرابع”
- Erzya: “Парижэнь IV-це кужо”
- Esperanto: “4-a arondismento de Parizo”
- Estonian: “Pariisi 4. ringkond”
- Estonian: “Pariisi IV ringkond”
- Finnish: “4. arrondissementti”
- French: “4e arrondissement de Paris”
- French: “4e Arrondissement”
- French: “75004”
- French: “IVe arrondissement”
- French: “Paris 4”
- French: “Paris 4e”
- French: “quatrième arrondissement”
- Galician: “4º distrito de París”
- German: “4. Arrondissement von Paris”
- German: “4. Arrondissement”
- Greek: “4ο Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Παρισιού”
- Greek: “4ο δημοτικό διαμέρισμα του Παρισιού”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-lì Thi-si-khî”
- Hebrew: “הרובע הרביעי של פריז”
- Hebrew: “הרובע הרביעי”
- Hungarian: “Párizs 4. kerülete”
- Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-4 Paris”
- Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-4”
- Irish: “4ú arrondissement Pháras”
- Italian: “IV arrondissement di Parigi”
- Japanese: “4区 (パリ)”
- Japanese: “4区”
- Japanese: “パリ4区”
- Korean: “4구”
- Korean: “파리 4구”
- Latin: “Circumdarium IV Lutetiae”
- Luxembourgish: “4. Arrondissement vu Paräis”
- Luxembourgish: “4. Arrondissement”
- Luxembourgish: “arrondissement de l’Hôtel-de-Ville”
- Malay: “Daerah 4”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí 4 khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “4. arrondissement”
- Norwegian: “4. arrondissement”
- Occitan (post 1500): “4au arrondiment de París”
- Persian: “منطقه ۴ پاریس”
- Persian: “منطقه چهارم پاریس”
- Polish: “4. dzielnica Paryża”
- Portuguese: “4.º arrondissement de Paris”
- Portuguese: “4.º distrito de Paris”
- Portuguese: “4º arrondissement”
- Romanian: “Arondismentul 4 din Paris”
- Russian: “IV округ Парижа”
- Russian: “IV округ”
- Serbian: “4. арондисман Париза”
- Slovak: “4. obvod”
- Slovenian: “4. okrožje Pariza”
- Slovenian: “4. pariško okrožje”
- Slovenian: “Pariz 4”
- Spanish: “IV Arrondissement de Paris”
- Spanish: “IV Arrondissement de París”
- Spanish: “IV Distrito de Paris”
- Spanish: “IV distrito de París”
- Spanish: “IV Distrito de París”
- Swedish: “4ème arrondissement”
- Swedish: “Paris fjärde arrondissement”
- Turkish: “4. arrondissement”
- Turkish: “Paris 4. bölge”
- Ukrainian: “IV округ Парижа”
- Urdu: “پیرس کا چوتھا آرونڈسمینٹ”
- Urdu: “پیرس کا چوتھا اراؤنڈڈسمنٹ”
- Vietnamese: “Quận 4, Paris”
- Vietnamese: “Quận 4”
- Welsh: “4ydd arrondissement Paris”
- Yue Chinese: “巴黎第4區”
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