Editing Arrondissement (section)

==Europe==

===France===

{{Main article|Arrondissements of France}}

The 101 French [[Departments of France|departments]] are divided into 342 ''arrondissements'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=99&ref_id=t_0203R |title=Circonscriptions administratives au 1er janvier 2015 : comparaisons régionales |trans-title=Administrative constituencies of 1 January 2015: regional comparisons |language=fr |publisher=[[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]] |access-date=5 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430033500/http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=99&ref_id=t_0203R |archive-date=30 April 2014 }}</ref> which may be roughly translated into English as '''districts'''. The capital of an arrondissement is called a [[Subprefectures in France|subprefecture]]. When an arrondissement contains the [[Prefectures in France|prefecture]] (capital) of the department, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture. Arrondissements are further divided into [[Cantons of France|cantons]] and [[Communes of France|communes]].

====Municipal arrondissement====
{{Main article|Municipal arrondissements of France}}

A [[municipal arrondissement]] ({{Langx|fr|link=no|arrondissement municipal}}, pronounced {{IPA|fr|aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃ mynisipal|}}), is a subdivision of the [[Communes of France|commune]], used in the three largest cities: Paris, [[Lyon]], and [[Marseille]]. It functions as an even lower administrative division, with its own mayor. Although usually referred to simply as an "arrondissement", they should not be confused with departmental [[Arrondissements of France|arrondissements]], which are groupings of communes within one ''[[département]]''. The official translation into English is "district".

===Belgium===
{{Main article|Arrondissements of Belgium}}

[[Belgium]] is a [[Federation|federalized]] country which geographically consists of three regions, of which only [[Flanders]] (Flemish Region) and [[Wallonia]] (Walloon Region) are subdivided into five provinces each; the [[Brussels-Capital Region]] is neither a province nor is it part of one.

In Belgium, there are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.

* The 43 '''administrative arrondissements'''<ref name="STAT">{{Cite web|url=http://www.statoids.com/ybe.html|title=Belgium Arrondissements (as of 2010)|website=Statoids}}</ref> are an administrative level between the [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipalities]] and the [[Provinces of Belgium|provinces]].
* Belgium has 12 '''judicial arrondissements'''.
* For the elections of the [[Parliament of Wallonia]], 13 '''electoral arrondissements''' (or grouped arrondissements) are used as [[electoral district]]s.
** Until 2002, the electoral districts for the [[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Representatives]] were electoral arrondissements; at present these are provincial constituencies and one for [[Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital|Brussels-Capital]]. The electoral districts [[Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde]] and [[Arrondissement of Leuven|Leuven]] still existed until 2012.
** Electoral arrondissements were also used for the [[Flemish Parliament]] elections, until 2004 when they were changed to provincial electoral districts.

===Netherlands===
{{Main article|nl:Rechterlijke indeling van Nederland}}

In the [[Netherlands]] an ''arrondissement'' is a [[judiciary|judicial]] jurisdiction.

===Switzerland===
[[Subdivisions of the canton of Bern]] include districts since 2010, which are called ''arrondissements administratifs'' in French.

===Post-Soviet states===
In some [[post-Soviet states]], there are cities that are divided into municipal [[raion]]i similar to how some French cities are divided into municipal arrondissements (see e.g. [[Raions of cities in Ukraine]], [[Municipal divisions of Russia]], [[Administrative divisions of Minsk]], [[Tashkent]] in Uzbekistan).