Arrondissement of Nérac
The arrondissement of Nérac is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Nérac.
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Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Lot-et-Garonne |
No. of communes | 58 |
Subprefecture | Nérac |
Area | 1,400.3 km2 (540.7 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 38,521 |
INSEE code | 474 |
History
changeWhen the Lot-et-Garonne department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Nérac was part of that original department. In 1926, the arrondissement was eliminated but, 1942, it became again an arrondissement[2]
Geography
changeThe arrondissement of Nérac is in the southwest of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of 1,400.3 square kilometres (541 square miles).[3] It has 39,227 inhabitants and a population density of 28.0 inhabitants/km².[4]
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Marmande, to the east by the arrondissement of Agen, to the south by the Gers department, to the southwest by the Landes department and to the northwest by the Gironde department.
Composition
changeCantons
changeAfter the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Nérac, there is only one canton where not all its "communes" are in the arrondissement: Les Forêts de Gascogne. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | |||
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Agen | Marmande | Villeneuve-sur-Lot | Nérac | |||
4705 | L'Albret | 22 | 22 | |||
4708 | Les Forêts de Gascogne | 16 | 16 | 32 | ||
4711 | Lavardac | 20 | 20 |
Communes
changeThe arrondissement of Nérac has 58 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[6]
- Allons, Lot-et-Garonne (47007)
- Ambrus (47008)
- Andiran (47009)
- Anzex (47012)
- Barbaste (47021)
- Beauziac (47026)
- Boussès (47039)
- Bruch (47041)
- Buzet-sur-Baïse (47043)
- Calignac (47045)
- Casteljaloux (47052)
- Caubeyres (47058)
- Damazan (47078)
- Durance (47085)
- Espiens (47090)
- Fargues-sur-Ourbise (47093)
- Feugarolles (47097)
- Fieux (47098)
- Francescas (47102)
- Fréchou (47103)
- Houeillès (47119)
- La Réunion (47222)
- Lamontjoie (47133)
- Lannes (47134)
- Lasserre (47139)
- Lavardac (47143)
- Leyritz-Moncassin (47148)
- Moncaut (47172)
- Moncrabeau (47174)
- Mongaillard (47176)
- Monheurt (47177)
- Montagnac-sur-Auvignon (47180)
- Montesquieu (47186)
- Mézin (47167)
- Nomdieu (47197)
- Nérac (47195)
- Pindères (47205)
- Pompiey (47207)
- Pompogne (47208)
- Poudenas (47211)
- Puch-d'Agenais (47214)
- Razimet (47220)
- Réaup-Lisse (47221)
- Saint-Laurent (47249)
- Saint-Léger (47250)
- Saint-Léon (47251)
- Saint-Martin-Curton (47254)
- Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet (47267)
- Saint-Pé-Saint-Simon (47266)
- Saint-Vincent-de-Lamontjoie (47282)
- Sainte-Maure-de-Peyriac (47258)
- Saumont (47287)
- Sauméjan (47286)
- Sos (47302)
- Thouars-sur-Garonne (47308)
- Vianne (47318)
- Villefranche-du-Queyran (47320)
- Xaintrailles (47327)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
47195 | Nérac | 7,085 | L'Albret | Albret Communauté |
47052 | Casteljaloux | 4,638 | Les Forêts de Gascogne | Les Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne |
47143 | Lavardac | 2,213 | Lavardac | Albret Communauté |
47167 | Mézin | 1,578 | L'Albret | Albret Communauté |
47021 | Barbaste | 1,502 | Lavardac | Albret Communauté |
47043 | Buzet-sur-Baïse | 1,319 | Lavardac | Albret Communauté |
47078 | Damazan | 1,308 | Lavardac | Le Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas |
47318 | Vianne | 1,035 | Lavardac | Albret Communauté |
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ↑ "Historique de Lot-et-Garonne". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Nérac (474)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ↑ "Décret n° 2014-257 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Nérac (474)". Géographie administrative et d'étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 April 2017.