With the Paris Olympics approaching, friends who have purchased Olympic tickets must be scratching their heads over Paris’s complex transportation network! To fully explore the various attractions in Paris, it’s essential to understand the city’s internal transportation.
Paris is located in the Île-de-France region, one of France’s 13 regions. Zones 1-5 in Paris are used to determine public transportation fares for the entire Île-de-France region, forming a concentric fare zone system radiating outward from the city center (Zones 1-2). If you need to take public transportation to attractions outside the city center, you need to know which zone the attraction is in to facilitate purchasing transportation tickets. The commonly referred to “Petit Paris” (Little Paris) refers to the city center, while the “Grand Paris” (Greater Paris) encompasses Zones 3-5. The city center of Paris is further divided into 20 districts, and most of Paris’s main tourist attractions are located within these 20 districts.
The 20 districts of “Petit Paris” include: the Louvre Museum (1st district), the Panthéon (5th district), Luxembourg Gardens (6th district), the Eiffel Tower (7th district), the Arc de Triomphe (8th district), Champs-Élysées (8th district), the Paris Opera House (9th district), and more.
Zone 4: Versailles Palace, Orly Airport, etc.
Zone 5: Disneyland, Fontainebleau Palace, Charles de Gaulle Airport, etc.
