IXe arrondissement

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9th arrondissement of Paris

Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement.
Location

Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Mayor	Jacques Bravo
Statistics
Land area¹	2.18 km²
Population² (Jan. 1, 2005 estimate) (March 8, 1999 census)	58,800 55,838
-Density (2005)	26,985/km²
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

The 20
arrondissements
of Paris

17^th			18^th		19^th
	8^th		9^th	10^th	11^th	20^th
16^th			2^nd	3^rd
			1^st	4^th	12^th
	Seine river
		7^th	6^th	5^th	13^th
		15^th	14^th

The 9^th arrondissement (IX^e arrondissement), located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. It contains many places of interest, including the Boulevard Haussmann and its large department stores Galeries Lafayette and Printemps. Along with the 2nd and 8th arrondissement, it hosts one of the business centers of Paris, located around the Opéra.

1 Geography
2 Demography
3 Map
4 Cityscape
- 4.1 Places of interest
- 4.2 Main streets and squares

[edit] Geography

The land area of this arrondissement is 2.179 km² (0.841 sq. miles, or 538 acres).

[edit] Demography

The peak population of the 9th arrondissement occurred in 1901, when it had 124,011 inhabitants. Since then, the arrondissement has widely attracted business activity. As a result, the population was in 1999 only 55,838 inhabitants, while it held 111,939 jobs.

Historical population:

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km²)
1872	103,767	47,600
1901 (peak of population)	124,011	56,912
1954	102,287	46,921
1962	94,094	43,182
1968	84,969	38,994
1975	70,270	32,249
1982	64,134	29,433
1990	58,019	26,626
1999	55,838	25,626
2005 estimate	58,800	26,985