Arrondissement of Forcalquier
The arrondissement of Forcalquier is an arrondissement of France in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Forcalquier.
Country | France |
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Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
No. of communes | 97 |
Subprefecture | Forcalquier |
Area | 2,605.4 km2 (1,006.0 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 044 |
History
When the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Forcalquier was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Forcalquier is the most western of the arrondissements of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. It is bordered to the north by the Hautes-Alpes department, to the east by the arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains, to the south and west by the Vaucluse department and to the northwest by the Drôme department.
The arrondissement of Forcalquier is the second largest arrondissement of the department in area, after the arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains, 2,111.6 km2 (815.3 sq mi), but first in population (88,333 inhabitants).
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[2] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Forcalquier, there are 9 cantons and 7 of them with all their communes in the arrondissement:
- Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban (0403)
- Forcalquier (0406)
- Manosque-1 (0407)
- Manosque-2 (0408)
- Manosque-3 (0409)
- Oraison (0410) (partly)
- Reillanne (0411)
- Seyne (0413) (partly)
- Sisteron (0414)
Communes
The arrondissement of Forcalquier has 97 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[3]
- Allemagne-en-Provence (04004)
- Aubenas-les-Alpes (04012)
- Aubignosc (04013)
- Authon (04016)
- Banon (04018)
- Bayons (04023)
- Bellaffaire (04026)
- Bevons (04027)
- La Brillanne (04034)
- Brunet (04035)
- Le Caire (04037)
- Le Castellet (04041)
- Céreste (04045)
- Châteaufort (04050)
- Châteauneuf-Miravail (04051)
- Châteauneuf-Val-Saint-Donat (04053)
- Clamensane (04057)
- Claret (04058)
- Corbières (04063)
- Cruis (04065)
- Curbans (04066)
- Curel (04067)
- Dauphin (04068)
- Entrepierres (04075)
- Entrevennes (04077)
- Esparron-de-Verdon (04081)
- Faucon-du-Caire (04085)
- Fontienne (04087)
- Forcalquier (04088)
- Gigors (04093)
- Gréoux-les-Bains (04094)
- L’Hospitalet (04095)
- Lardiers (04101)
- Limans (04104)
- Lurs (04106)
- Mane (04111)
- Manosque (04112)
- Melve (04118)
- Mison (04123)
- Montagnac-Montpezat (04124)
- Montfort (04127)
- Montfuron (04128)
- Montjustin (04129)
- Montlaux (04130)
- Montsalier (04132)
- La Motte-du-Caire (04134)
- Nibles (04137)
- Niozelles (04138)
- Noyers-sur-Jabron (04139)
- Les Omergues (04140)
- Ongles (04141)
- Oppedette (04142)
- Oraison (04143)
- Peipin (04145)
- Piégut (04150)
- Pierrerue (04151)
- Pierrevert (04152)
- Puimichel (04156)
- Puimoisson (04157)
- Quinson (04158)
- Redortiers (04159)
- Reillanne (04160)
- Revest-des-Brousses (04162)
- Revest-du-Bion (04163)
- Revest-Saint-Martin (04164)
- Riez (04166)
- La Rochegiron (04169)
- Roumoules (04172)
- Sainte-Croix-à-Lauze (04175)
- Saint-Étienne-les-Orgues (04178)
- Saint-Geniez (04179)
- Saint-Laurent-du-Verdon (04186)
- Saint-Maime (04188)
- Saint-Martin-de-Brômes (04189)
- Saint-Martin-les-Eaux (04190)
- Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire (04192)
- Sainte-Tulle (04197)
- Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron (04199)
- Salignac (04200)
- Saumane (04201)
- Sigonce (04206)
- Sigoyer (04207)
- Simiane-la-Rotonde (04208)
- Sisteron (04209)
- Sourribes (04211)
- Thèze (04216)
- Turriers (04222)
- Vachères (04227)
- Valavoire (04228)
- Valbelle (04229)
- Valensole (04230)
- Valernes (04231)
- Vaumeilh (04233)
- Venterol (04234)
- Villemus (04241)
- Villeneuve (04242)
- Volx (04245)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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04112 | Manosque | 21,941 | Manosque-1, Manosque-2 and Manosque-3 |
Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04209 | Sisteron | 3,629 | Sisteron | Le Sisteronais-Buëch |
04143 | Oraison | 5,792 | Oraison | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04088 | Forcalquier | 5,210 | Forcalquier | Pays Forcalquier et Montagne de Lure |
04242 | Villeneuve | 5,210 | Oraison | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04152 | Pierrevert | 3,690 | Manosque-1 | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04197 | Sainte-Tulle | 3,398 | Manosque-3 | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04230 | Valensole | 3,206 | Valensole | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04245 | Volx | 3,134 | Manosque-2 | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
04094 | Gréoux-les-Bains | 2,645 | Valensole | Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-226 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Forcalquier (044)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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