[header] How to find an apartment in paris [title] Familiarize yourself with parisian geography. [step] Understanding the area itself can help you make a choice about where the best place will be for you to settle. [substeps] The city of paris is located in the central northern quarter of france.
It covers 4 , 638 square miles and has over twelve million inhabitants, making it the most populous city in france. Paris is roughly oval shaped, and is divided into twenty " arrondissements " or municipalities, which form a clockwise spiral (arrondissement 1 is located in the center, and spirals out from there).