IIe arrondissement

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2nd arrondissement of Paris

Former Paris stock exchange, located in the 2nd arrondissement.
Location

Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Mayor	Jacques Boutault
Statistics
Land area¹	0.99 km²
Population² (1999 census)	19,585
-Density (1999)	19,743/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 2nd arrodissement (2^e arrondissement), located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. Along with the 8th, and 9th arrondissement, it hosts an important business center of Paris, which is located around the Opéra. It has the most dense concentration of in business activity in the city. It contains the former Paris stock exchange, a large number of banking headquarters, and a textile district, known as the Sentier, as well as the concert hall of the Opéra-Comique.

The arrondissment is also the home of all of the surviving glazed commercial passages of 19th century Paris. At the beginning of the 19th century most of the streets of Paris were dark and muddy and there were no sidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well lighted, dry and paved pedestrian passageways. By the middle of the 19th century there were about two dozen of these commercial malls, but most of them disappeared as the Paris authorities paved the main streets, added sidewalks and lit up the place with gas Street_lights. The commercial survivors are, along with the Passage des Panoramas, the Galerie Viviene, the Passage Choiseul, the Galerie Colbert, the Passage des Princes, the Passage du Grand Cerf, the Passage du Caire, the Passage Lemoine, the Passage Jouffroy, the passage Basfour, the passage du Bourg-L'abbé, and the Passage du Ponceau.

1 Geography
2 Demography
3 Map
4 Cityscape
- 4.1 Places of interest in the arrondissement
- 4.2 Main streets and squares
5 Reference

[edit] Geography

The 2nd arrondissement is the smallest arrondissement of Paris, with a land area of only 0.992 km² (0.383 sq. miles, or 245 acres)

[edit] Demography

The peak of population of the 2nd arrondissement actually occurred before 1861, though the arrondissement has only existed in its current shape since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. As of the last census in 1999, the population was 19,585, while the arrondissement contained 61,672 jobs, and this despite a land area of only 0.992 km², making it the most dense arrondissement in business activity with an average of 62,695 jobs per km².

Historical population:

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km²)
1861 (peak of population)	81,609	82,267
1872	73,578	74,321
1954	41,780	44,300
1962	40,864	41,194
1968	35,357	35,642
1975	26,328	26,540
1982	21,203	21,374
1990	20,738	20,905
1999	19,585	19,743