This polygon shapefile represents the Arrondissement Boundaries for the Pays de la Loire region of France for 2010. These are the level 3 administrative divisions (ADM3) of Pays de la Loire. The 101 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. Articque informatique. (2010). Arrondissement Boundaries: Pays de la Loire, France, 2010. Articque informatique. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gx929mp5413 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.