Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise from the ...

The central four arrondissements of the French capital have been given a new name as part of the mayor's plan to see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th arrondissements become one. Find out the new name. Paris ...

Paris’s Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to wipe four of the city’s 20 historic arrondissements off the map in a bid to make the French capital “more democratic and more efficient”, according to ...

It’s time to tear up the historic map of Paris and start over. So suggests a new proposal from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, leaked from a “confidential note” to France’s President and Prime Minister last ...