Arrondissement of Le Vigan
The arrondissement of Le Vigan is an arrondissement of France, in the Gard department, Occitanie region. Its capital is the city of Le Vigan.
Country | France |
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Region | Occitanie |
Department | Gard |
No. of communes | 74 |
Subprefecture | Le Vigan |
Area | 1,390.6 km2 (536.9 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 303 |
History
When the Gard department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Le Vigan was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Le Vigan is the most western of the arrondissements of the Gard department. It is bordered to the north by the Lozère department, to the northeast by the Alès arrondissement, to the southeast by the Nîmes arrondissement, to the south by the Hérault department and to the west by the Aveyron department.
The arrondissement of Le Vigan is the second smallest arrondissement of the department in area, 1,398.5 km2 (540.0 sq mi),[2] but the one with fewest people living in it (36,608 inhabitants).[3]
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are only 4 cantons in the arrondissement of Le Vigan. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondiissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||
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Alès | Nîmes | Le Vigan | |||
3007 | Calvisson | 27 | 1 | 28 | |
3008 | La Grand-Combe | 24 | 4 | 28 | |
3015 | Quissac | 17 | 3 | 24 | 44 |
3022 | Le Vigan | 46 | 46 | ||
Total | 75 |
Communes
The arrondissement of Le Vigan has 75 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[5]
- Alzon (30009)
- Arphy (30015)
- Arre (30016)
- Arrigas (30017)
- Aulas (30024)
- Aumessas (30025)
- Avèze (30026)
- Bez-et-Esparon (30038)
- Blandas (30040)
- Bragassargues (30050)
- Brouzet-lès-Quissac (30054)
- Bréau-et-Salagosse (30052)
- Campestre-et-Luc (30064)
- Canaules-et-Argentières (30065)
- Cannes-et-Clairan (30066)
- Carnas (30069)
- Causse-Bégon (30074)
- Colognac (30087)
- Conqueyrac (30093)
- Corconne (30095)
- Cros (30099)
- Dourbies (30105)
- Durfort-et-Saint-Martin-de-Sossenac (30106)
- Fressac (30119)
- Gailhan (30121)
- L'Estréchure (30108)
- La Cadière-et-Cambo (30058)
- Lanuéjols (30139)
- Lasalle (30140)
- Liouc (30148)
- Logrian-Florian (30150)
- Mandagout (30154)
- Mars (30157)
- Molières-Cavaillac (30170)
- Monoblet (30172)
- Montdardier (30176)
- Notre-Dame-de-la-Rouvière (30190)
- Orthoux-Sérignac-Quilhan (30192)
- Peyrolles (30195)
- Les Plantiers (30198)
- Pommiers (30199)
- Pompignan (30200)
- Puechredon (30208)
- Quissac (30210)
- Revens (30213)
- Rogues (30219)
- Roquedur (30220)
- Saint-André-de-Majencoules (30229)
- Saint-André-de-Valborgne (30231)
- Saint-Bonnet-de-Salendrinque (30236)
- Saint-Bresson (30238)
- Saint-Félix-de-Pallières (30252)
- Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort (30263)
- Saint-Jean-de-Crieulon (30265)
- Saint-Julien-de-la-Nef (30272)
- Saint-Laurent-le-Minier (30280)
- Saint-Martial (30283)
- Saint-Nazaire-des-Gardies (30289)
- Saint-Roman-de-Codières (30296)
- Saint-Sauveur-Camprieu (30297)
- Saint-Théodorit (30300)
- Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle (30246)
- Sardan (30309)
- Saumane (30310)
- Sauve (30311)
- Savignargues (30314)
- Soudorgues (30322)
- Sumène (30325)
- Thoiras (30329)
- Trèves (30332)
- Vabres (30335)
- Valleraugue (30339)
- Vic-le-Fesq (30349)
- Le Vigan (30350)
- Vissec (30353)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[3] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
30350 | Le Vigan | 3,933 | Le Vigan | Le Pays Viganais |
30263 | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort | 3,912 | Le Vigan | Le Piémont Cévenol |
30210 | Quissac | 3,156 | Quissac | Le Piémont Cévenol |
30311 | Sauve | 1,970 | Quissac | Le Piémont Cévenol |
30325 | Sumène | 1,598 | Le Vigan | Les Cévennes Gangeoises et Suménoises |
30140 | Lasalle | 1,160 | Le Vigan | Causses Aigoual Cévennes |
30026 | Avèze | 1,091 | Le Vigan | Le Pays Viganais |
30339 | Valleraugue | 1,044 | Le Vigan | Causses Aigoual Cévennes |
30170 | Molières-Cavaillac | 939 | Le Vigan | Le Pays Viganais |
30200 | Pompignan | 900 | Le Vigan | Le Piémont Cévenol |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique du Gard". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Département du Gard (30)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-232 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Gard" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement du Vigan (303)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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