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3rd arrondissement of Paris
	Arts et Métiers (medieval priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs), in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
	Location
	Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Mayor	Pierre Aidenbaum
Statistics
Land area¹	1.17 km²
Population²; (July 1, 2005 estimate); (March 8, 1999 census)	; 35,100; 34,248
-Density (2005)	29,974/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
	River Seine
		7^th	6^th	5^th	13^th
		15^th	14^th

The 3rd arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements (administrative districts) of the capital city of France.

Situated on the right bank of the River Seine, it is the second smallest in area after the 2nd arrondissement. The arrondissement contains the northern, quieter part of the medieval district of Le Marais (while the 4th arrondissement contains Le Marais' more lively southern part, notably including the gay district of Paris). The oldest surviving private house of Paris, built in 1407, is to be found in the 3rd arrondissement, in the rue de Montmorency.

A small but rapidly expanding Chinatown inhabited by immigrants from Wenzhou, Mainland China, centers on the rue au Maire, near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers housed in the medieval priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.

[edit] Geography

With a land area of 1.171 km² (0.452 sq.miles, or 289 acres), the 3rd arrondissement is the second smallest arrondissement in the city.

[edit] Demography

The area now occupied by the first arrondissement attained its peak population in the period preceding the re-organization of Paris in 1860. In 1999, the population was 34,248, while the arrondissement hosted a total of 29,723 jobs.

[edit] Historical population

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km²)
1861 (peak of population)¹	99,116	84,642
1872	89,687	76,656
1954	65,312	55,822
1962	62,680	53,527
1968	56,252	48,038
1975	41,706	35,616
1982	36,094	30,823
1990	35,102	29,976
1999	34,248	29,247
2005	35,100	29,974

¹The peak of population actually occurred before 1861, but the
arrondissement was created in 1860, so we do not have figures before 1861.

[edit] Immigration

Place of birth of residents of the 3rd arrondissement in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
73.4%	26.6%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	0.8%	4.4%	5.8%	15.6%

¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.