Line 9 · Paris

Line 9 opened on November 8, 1922, between Trocadéro and Exelmans, and over the next years it was extended step by step. It first reached the suburbs at Pont de Sèvres on February 3, 1934, and on October 14, 1937 it was extended east to Mairie de Montreuil. The route crosses the 16th arrondissement, the Grands Boulevards and the eastern districts, from Boulogne-Billancourt to Montreuil.

At a glance

Stations: 37
From: Pont de Sèvres
To: Mairie de Montreuil
Interchanges: 14
Difficulty: Lv 5 of 7
Keystrokes: ~512

Line 9 runs from Pont de Sèvres to Mairie de Montreuil, 37 stops in the order you type them. Measured in straight lines between the station coordinates, the run is about 19.4 km, an average of 540 m between stops. The longest gap is Marcel Sembat to Porte de Saint-Cloud, about 1.1 km, and the shortest is Exelmans to Michel-Ange - Molitor, about 220 m. The real track is a little longer than these straight lines.

Typing every station name once takes about 512 keystrokes, which is difficulty level 5 of 7 among Paris's lines. The level only compares lines within one city, so use the keystroke count to compare across cities. At the Pont de Sèvres end the game shows Île Seguin, and at the Mairie de Montreuil end, Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church.

You can change to 11 other lines: Line 10, Line 6, Line 1, Line 13, Line 3, Line 7, Line 8, Line 4, Line 5, Line 11, Line 2. The busiest interchange is République, where 4 other lines meet this one. The interchange stations are Michel-Ange - Molitor, Michel-Ange - Auteuil, Trocadéro, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Miromesnil, Havre - Caumartin, Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette, Richelieu - Drouot, and 6 more.

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Along the way

The game shows a nearby place at each station. Some of the ones on Line 9:

Île Seguin at Pont de Sèvres. Île Seguin, in the Seine at Boulogne-Billancourt, where the Renault factories used to stand.Photo: Moonik · CC BY-SA 3.0
The fountains of Porte de Saint-Cloud at Porte de Saint-Cloud. The fountains of place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud, at the southwestern edge of Paris.Photo: Fred Romero · CC BY 2.0
Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil church at Michel-Ange - Auteuil. The church of Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil, in the heart of the old village of Auteuil.Photo: Guilhem Vellut · CC BY 2.0
Château de la Muette at La Muette. The Château de la Muette, which today houses the headquarters of the OECD.Photo: MySociety · CC BY 2.0
Musée Guimet at Iéna. The Musée Guimet on place d'Iéna, the national museum of Asian arts.Photo: Phyrexian · CC BY-SA 4.0
Saint-Philippe-du-Roule church at Saint-Philippe du Roule. The church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, with its neoclassical colonnaded front, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré.Photo: Arthur Weidmann · CC BY-SA 4.0
The dome of the Galeries Lafayette at Havre - Caumartin. The colourful glass dome of the Galeries Lafayette, with its gilded metal ribs, seen from below, under a hundred metres from the station.Photo: MrsEllacott · CC BY-SA 3.0
Passage Jouffroy at Grands Boulevards. Passage Jouffroy, a covered arcade opened in 1847 with its glass roof and small shops, a step from the Grands Boulevards.Photo: ZeusUpsistos · CC BY-SA 4.0
The monument on Place de la République at République. The monument to the Republic: a tall statue of Marianne on a stone base with a bronze lion at its foot, in the middle of the square, about sixty metres from the station.Photo: Fred Romero · CC BY 2.0
The 11th arrondissement town hall at Voltaire. The town hall of the 11th arrondissement on place Léon-Blum, at the end of boulevard Voltaire.Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Triumph of the Republic at Nation. Inaugurated in 1899, Jules Dalou's bronze group shows the Republic standing on a chariot drawn by lions and guided by the Spirit of Freedom.Photo: Romainbehar · CC0
The Montreuil flea market at Porte de Montreuil. The flea market at Porte de Montreuil, one of the big flea markets of Paris.Photo: Damien Boilley · CC BY 2.0