The Place de l’Étoile is a large road junction in Paris, the meeting point of twelve straight avenues and at its centre stands the Arc de Triomphe. The twelve avenues, clockwise from the north, are the following: Avenue de Wagram, Avenue Hoche, Avenue de Friedland, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Avenue Marceau, Avenue d’Iéna, Avenue Kléber, Avenue Victor Hugo, Avenue Foch, Avenue de la Grande-Armée, Avenue Carnot, Avenue Mac-Mahon.

The 16th arrondissement is home to a large number of diplomatic embassies with the famous Avenue Foch, the widest street in Paris, the Place du Trocadéro, the Parc des Princes, Roland Garros Stadium and the Bois de Boulogne park.