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An 'arrondissement' is an administrative division in some French or Dutch-speaking countries:

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France

Municipal arrondissement

Paris

Marseille and Lyon

Departmental arrondissement

Belgium

Netherlands

Canada

Quebec

Haiti

Niger

France

Municipal arrondissement

Main articles: Municipal arrondissement in France

Paris

Main articles: Arrondissements of Paris

Paris, capital city of France, is divided into 20 arrondissements.

Marseille and Lyon

Two other French cities, Marseille and Lyon, are also divided into arrondissements. Marseille is divided into 16 arrondissements; Lyon is divided into nine.

Departmental arrondissement

Main articles: Arrondissements of 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''.

Belgium

Main articles: Arrondissements of Belgium

The federalized country Belgium geographically consists of three regions, of which only Flanders (the Flemish region) and Wallonia (the Walloon region) are subdivided into five provinces each; the Brussels Capital Region is neither a province nor is it part of one.
:The remainder of this chapter was unambiguously translated on 2006-05-22 from the Dutch language Wikipedia (last changed 2006-05-05):
In Belgium there are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.

★ The 43 administrative arrondissements are an administrative level between the municipalities and the provinces. Per region an overview of its municipalities (''gemeenten/communes'') and the district or administrative arrondissement these belong to can be found in the Municipalities of Belgium page; for these administrative arrondissements also more technical references are available.

★ Belgium has 27 judicial arrondissements.

★ Until a short while ago the ''electoral circles for the parliaments'' were ''electoral arrondissements''; at present these circles are the ''provinces'', except for the arrondissements Brussels-Capital (geographically coinciding with the Brussels Capital Region) and Halle-Vilvoorde (one of the two districts in the province Flemish Brabant in the Flemish region), which together still form the electoral circle Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (in Dutch ''kieskring Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde'', in French ''cercle'' or ''circonscription électoral Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde'').

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★ For the elections of the Walloon Parliament, 13 arrondissements (or grouped arrondissements) are still being used as electoral circles:

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★ Arlon - Marche-en-Famenne - Bastogne

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★ Mons

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★ Charleroi

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★ Dinant - Philippeville

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★ Tournai - Ath - Mouscron

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★ Huy - Waremme

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★ Liège

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★ Namur

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★ Neufchâteau - Virton

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★ Nivelles

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★ Thuin

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★ Verviers

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★ Soignies

Netherlands

In the Netherlands an ''arrondissement'' is a judicial jurisdiction, comprising a number of communes.

Canada

Quebec

In Quebec, the cities of Montreal, Québec City, Saguenay, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, and the municipality of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into ''arrondissements'' (called boroughs in English).

Haiti

Each of Haiti's ten departments is sub-divided into arrondissements.

Niger

Each of Niger's departments are subdivided into arrondissments; see Arrondissements of Niger.