In general usage, the left bank of a river is the side to one's left while facing downstream.

As a name, Left Bank may refer to:

• Rive Gauche, the left bank of the Seine in Paris; gauche means "left" in French
• Left Bank (Biscay), the left bank of the Nervión in Biscay, Spain
• Left Bank Cinema, an offshoot of the French New Wave
• Left Bank (Kiev), the left bank of the Dnieper in Kiev
• Left-bank Ukraine, a historical region in Ukraine
• Left Bank (Philadelphia), a river bank in Philadelphia which anomalously is situated on the left facing upstream^{citation needed}
• Left Bank (Rhine), the western side of the river Rhine, a region historically contested between France and Germany.
• The Left Banke, a 1960s American pop group
• Rive Gauche Nightclub, a Parisian-themed nightclub in the River West District of Chicago
• A section of Bordeaux along the Gironde river known as the Médoc

See also

• Right Bank
• South Bank (disambiguation)
• West Bank (disambiguation)
• East Bank (disambiguation)

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