France
Île-de-France
Paris

1st arrondissement

The centre of contemporary and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the 1st arrondissement is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Orsay Museum and Garnier Opera.

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.

Theater building
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The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the in the , France.

Square
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The , originally Place Louis XV, and later Place Louis XVI, is a in , France. Measuring 7.6 ha in area, it is the largest square in the French capital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 2nd arrondissement and 9th arrondissement.

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The of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.

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The of is a diverse, "in between" section of the French capital. The Grands Boulevards area of shopping thoroughfares and flagship department stores is to be found in the southern part of the arrondissement.

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As with itself, the 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…

1st arrondissement

Latitude
48.86461° or 48° 51′ 53″ north
Longitude
2.3344° or 2° 20′ 4″ east
Population
15,900
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V87M+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 253456008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6269531
Wiki­data ID
Q161741
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“1st arrondissement” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدائرة الأولى في باريس”
  • Armenian: “Փարիզի 1-ին շրջան”
  • Asturian: “I Distritu de París”
  • Azerbaijani: “I arondisman”
  • Balinese: “Arondisemén ka-1 Paris”
  • Basque: “Parisko 1. barrutia”
  • Belarusian: “I акруга Парыжа”
  • Bengali: “প্যারিসের ১ম আরোঁদিসমঁ”
  • Bosnian: “1. arondisman”
  • Breton: “1añ arondisamant eus Pariz”
  • Breton: “1añ arondisamant”
  • Catalan: “1r districte de París”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ١ی پاریس”
  • Chinese: “Pa-lí 1 khu”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第1區”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第一区”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第一區”
  • Chinese: “第一区”
  • Chinese: “第一區”
  • Czech: “1. pařížský obvod”
  • Danish: “1. arrondissement i Paris”
  • Dutch: “1e arrondissement (Parijs)”
  • Dutch: “1e arrondissement van Parijs”
  • Dutch: “1e arrondissement”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حى پاريس الاولانى”
  • Erzya: “Парижэнь I-це кужо”
  • Esperanto: “1-a arondismento de Parizo”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi 1. ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi I ringkond”
  • Finnish: “1. arrondissementti”
  • French: “1er arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “1er Arrondissement”
  • French: “75001”
  • French: “arrondissement du Louvre”
  • French: “Ier arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “Ier arrondissement”
  • French: “le 1er”
  • French: “Paris 1er”
  • French: “premier arrondissement”
  • Galician: “1º distrito de París”
  • Georgian: “პარიზის I რაიონი”
  • German: “1. Arrondissement von Paris”
  • German: “1. Arrondissement”
  • Greek: “1ο Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Παρισιού”
  • Greek: “1ο δημοτικό διαμέρισμα του Παρισιού”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-lì Thi-yit-khî”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע הראשון של פריז”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע הראשון”
  • Hungarian: “Párizs 1. kerülete”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-1 Paris”
  • Irish: “1ú arrondissement de Pháras”
  • Italian: “I arrondissement di Parigi”
  • Japanese: “1区 (パリ)”
  • Japanese: “1区”
  • Japanese: “パリ1区”
  • Kazakh: “Париждің I аймағы”
  • Korean: “1구 (파리)”
  • Korean: “1구”
  • Korean: “파리 1구”
  • Latin: “Circumdarium I Lutetiae”
  • Lithuanian: “1-oji Paryžiaus apskritis”
  • Luxembourgish: “1. Arrondissement vu Paräis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arrondissement du Louvre”
  • Macedonian: “I округ”
  • Malay: “Daerah 1”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí 1 khu”
  • Northern Frisian: “1. Arrondissement”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “1. arrondissement”
  • Norwegian: “1. arrondissement”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “I arrondiment de París”
  • Persian: “منطقه ۱ پاریس”
  • Polish: “1. dzielnica Paryża”
  • Portuguese: “1.º arrondissement de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “1.º distrito de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “1º arrondissement”
  • Romanian: “Arondismentul 1 din Paris”
  • Russian: “I округ Парижа”
  • Russian: “I округ”
  • Scots: “1st arrondissement o Paris”
  • Serbian: “1. арондисман Париза”
  • Slovak: “1. obvod”
  • Slovenian: “1. arrondisssement”
  • Slovenian: “1. okrožje Pariza”
  • Slovenian: “1. okrožje”
  • Slovenian: “1. pariško okrožje”
  • Spanish: “I Arrondissement de Paris”
  • Spanish: “I Arrondissement de París”
  • Spanish: “I Distrito de Paris”
  • Spanish: “I distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “I Distrito de París”
  • Swedish: “1ère arrondissement”
  • Swedish: “Paris första arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “1. arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “Paris 1. bölge”
  • Ukrainian: “I округ Парижа”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا پہلا آرونڈسمینٹ”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا پہلا اراؤنڈڈسمنٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 1, Paris”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 1”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref 1af Paris”
  • Western Armenian: “Փարիզի քաղաքապետութեան 1 շրջան”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴黎第1區”

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