Arrondissement of Montbéliard
The arrondissement of Montbéliard is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Doubs département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Montbéliard.
Country | France |
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Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
Department | Doubs |
No. of communes | 168 |
Subprefecture | Montbéliard |
Area | 1,255.7 km2 (484.8 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 252 |
History
When the arrondissements of Doubs were created in 1800, Montbéliard was one of them in the Doubs department, as Saint-Hippolyte. In 1816, the subprefecture was moved from Saint-Hippolyte to Montbéliard.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Montbéliard is in the most northern of the arrondissements of the Doubs department; it is the smallest with an area of 1,255.7 km2 (485 sq mi).[2] It has a population of 176,670 inhabitants and a population density of 140.7 inhabitants/km².[3]
The arrondissement of Montbéliard is bordered to the north by the Haute-Saône department, to the northeast by the Territoire de Belfort department, to the east by Switzerland, to the south by the arrondissement Pontarlier and to the west by the arrondissement Besançon.
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.
In the arrondissement of Montbéliard, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Bavans and Valdahon. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Besançon | Montbéliard | Pontarlier | |||
2501 | Audincourt | 9 | 9 | ||
2503 | Bavans | 3 | 69 | 72 | |
2510 | Bethoncourt | 11 | 11 | ||
2512 | Maîche | 51 | 51 | ||
2513 | Montbéliard | 4 | 4 | ||
2518 | Valdahon | 2 | 10 | 45+ part of Étalans | 57 + part of Étalans |
2519 | Valentigney | 15 | 15 |
Communes
The arrondissement of Montbéliard has 169 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[5]
- Abbévillers (25004)
- Accolans (25005)
- Aibre (25008)
- Allenjoie (25011)
- Allondans (25013)
- Anteuil (25018)
- Appenans (25019)
- Arbouans (25020)
- Arcey (25022)
- Audincourt (25031)
- Autechaux-Roide (25033)
- Badevel (25040)
- Bart (25043)
- Battenans-Varin (25046)
- Bavans (25048)
- Belfays (25049)
- Belleherbe (25051)
- Belvoir (25053)
- Berche (25054)
- Bethoncourt (25057)
- Beutal (25059)
- Bief (25061)
- Blamont (25063)
- Blussangeaux (25066)
- Blussans (25067)
- Bondeval (25071)
- Bourguignon (25082)
- Bournois (25083)
- Branne (25087)
- Les Bréseux (25091)
- Bretigney (25093)
- Brognard (25097)
- Burnevillers (25102)
- Cernay-l'Église (25108)
- Chamesol (25114)
- Charmauvillers (25124)
- Charmoille (25125)
- Charquemont (25127)
- Chaux-lès-Clerval (25140)
- Chazot (25145)
- Colombier-Fontaine (25159)
- Courcelles-lès-Montbéliard (25170)
- Cour-Saint-Maurice (25173)
- Courtefontaine (25174)
- Crosey-le-Grand (25177)
- Crosey-le-Petit (25178)
- Dambelin (25187)
- Dambenois (25188)
- Dampierre-les-Bois (25190)
- Dampierre-sur-le-Doubs (25191)
- Dampjoux (25192)
- Damprichard (25193)
- Dannemarie (25194)
- Dasle (25196)
- Désandans (25198)
- Dung (25207)
- Échenans (25210)
- Les Écorces (25213)
- Écot (25214)
- Écurcey (25216)
- Étouvans (25224)
- Étrappe (25226)
- Étupes (25228)
- Exincourt (25230)
- Faimbe (25232)
- Ferrières-le-Lac (25234)
- Fesches-le-Châtel (25237)
- Fessevillers (25238)
- Feule (25239)
- Fleurey (25244)
- Fontaine-lès-Clerval (25246)
- Fournet-Blancheroche (25255)
- Frambouhans (25256)
- Froidevaux (25261)
- Gémonval (25264)
- Geney (25266)
- Glay (25274)
- Glère (25275)
- Goumois (25280)
- Goux-lès-Dambelin (25281)
- Grand-Charmont (25284)
- La Grange (25290)
- Hérimoncourt (25304)
- L'Hôpital-Saint-Lieffroy (25306)
- Hyémondans (25311)
- Indevillers (25314)
- L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs (25315)
- Issans (25316)
- Laire (25322)
- Lanthenans (25327)
- Liebvillers (25335)
- Longevelle-sur-Doubs (25345)
- Lougres (25350)
- Maîche (25356)
- Mancenans (25365)
- Mancenans-Lizerne (25366)
- Mandeure (25367)
- Marvelise (25369)
- Mathay (25370)
- Médière (25372)
- Meslières (25378)
- Montancy (25386)
- Montandon (25387)
- Montbéliard (25388)
- Mont-de-Vougney (25392)
- Montécheroux (25393)
- Montenois (25394)
- Montjoie-le-Château (25402)
- Neuchâtel-Urtière (25422)
- Noirefontaine (25426)
- Nommay (25428)
- Onans (25431)
- Orgeans-Blanchefontaine (25433)
- Orve (25436)
- Pays-de-Clerval (25156)
- Péseux (25449)
- Pierrefontaine-lès-Blamont (25452)
- Les Plains-et-Grands-Essarts (25458)
- Pompierre-sur-Doubs (25461)
- Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans (25463)
- Présentevillers (25469)
- La Prétière (25470)
- Provenchère (25471)
- Rahon (25476)
- Randevillers (25478)
- Rang (25479)
- Raynans (25481)
- Rémondans-Vaivre (25485)
- Roche-lès-Clerval (25496)
- Roches-lès-Blamont (25497)
- Rosières-sur-Barbèche (25503)
- Sainte-Marie (25523)
- Sainte-Suzanne (25526)
- Saint-Georges-Armont (25516)
- Saint-Hippolyte (25519)
- Saint-Julien-lès-Montbéliard (25521)
- Saint-Maurice-Colombier (25524)
- Sancey (25529)
- Seloncourt (25539)
- Semondans (25540)
- Sochaux (25547)
- Solemont (25548)
- Soulce-Cernay (25551)
- Sourans (25552)
- Soye (25553)
- Surmont (25554)
- Taillecourt (25555)
- Les Terres-de-Chaux (25138)
- Thiébouhans (25559)
- Thulay (25562)
- Trévillers (25571)
- Urtière (25573)
- Valentigney (25580)
- Valonne (25583)
- Valoreille (25584)
- Vandoncourt (25586)
- Vaucluse (25588)
- Vauclusotte (25589)
- Vaufrey (25591)
- Vellerot-lès-Belvoir (25595)
- Vellevans (25597)
- Vernois-lès-Belvoir (25607)
- Le Vernoy (25608)
- Vieux-Charmont (25614)
- Villars-lès-Blamont (25615)
- Villars-sous-Dampjoux (25617)
- Villars-sous-Écot (25618)
- Voujeaucourt (25632)
- Vyt-lès-Belvoir (25635)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[3] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
25056 | Montbéliard | 25,521 | Montbéliard | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25031 | Audincourt | 14,131 | Audincourt | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25580 | Valentigney | 9,970 | Valentigney | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25539 | Seloncourt | 5,906 | Audincourt | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25057 | Bethoncourt | 5,729 | Bethoncourt | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25284 | Grand-Charmont | 5,535 | Bethoncourt | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25367 | Mandeure | 4,870 | Valentigney | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25356 | Maîche | 4,233 | Maîche | Le Pays de Maîche |
25463 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans | 4,230 | Valentigney | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
25547 | Sochaux | 3,948 | Bethoncourt | Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique du Doubs". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 28 June 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 29 June 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-240 du 25 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Doubs" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
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Coordinates: 47°31′N 6°48′E / 47.517°N 6.800°E