<P> The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city . It is geographically the largest of the seventeen Wards of New Orleans . On the south, the Ninth Ward is bounded by the Mississippi River . On the western or "upriver" side, the Ninth Ward is bounded by (going from the River north to Lake Pontchartrain) Franklin Avenue, then Almonaster Avenue, then People's Avenue . From the north end of People's Avenue the boundary continues on a straight line north to Lake Pontchartrain; this line is the boundary between the Ninth and the city's Eighth Ward . The Lake forms the north and northeastern end of the ward . Saint Bernard Parish is the boundary to the southeast, Lake Borgne farther southeast and east, and the end of Orleans Parish to the east at the Rigolets . </P> <P> While there is substantial overlap, the 9th Ward should not be confused with city planning designation of the ninth planning district of New Orleans . The 9th Ward includes land in planning districts 7, 8, 10, and 11 (not to be confused with New Orleans East, the 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th wards .) (1) </P>

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