Arrondissement of Nice
The arrondissement of Nice is an arrondissement of France, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Nice.
Country | France |
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Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Alpes-Maritimes |
No. of communes | 101 |
Prefecture | Nice |
Area | 3,067.4 km2 (1,184.3 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 062 |
History
When the Alpes-Maritimes department was created on 1793, Nice was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Nice is the most northern of the Alpes-Maritimes department. It is bordered to the northeast and east by the Piedmont region (Italy), to the southeast by the Liguria region (Italy), to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, to the southwest by the Grasse arrondissement and to the west by the Var department.
The arrondissement of Nice is the largest in area of the two arrondissements of the department, 3,067.4 square kilometres (1,184.3 square miles), but the one with fewer people living in it (523,267 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 Nice, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Nice-3 and Vence. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
N° | Canton | Grasse | Nice | Total |
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0604 | Beausoleil | 7 | 7 | |
0610 | Contes | 20 | 20 | |
0614 | Menton | 6 | 6 | |
0615 | Nice-1 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0616 | Nice-2 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0617 | Nice-3 | 3 | part of Nice | 3 + part of Nice |
0618 | Nice-4 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0619 | Nice-5 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0620 | Nice-6 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0621 | Nice-7 | 2 + part of Nice | 2 + part of Nice | |
0622 | Nice-8 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0623 | Nice-9 | part of Nice | part of Nice | |
0624 | Tourrette-Levens | 28 | 28 | |
0626 | Vence | 10 | 37 | 47 |
Communes
The arrondissement of Nice has 101 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[3]
- Ascros (06005)
- Aspremont (06006)
- Auvare (06008)
- Bairols (06009)
- Beaulieu-sur-Mer (06011)
- Beausoleil (06012)
- Belvédère (06013)
- Bendejun (06014)
- Berre-les-Alpes (06015)
- Beuil (06016)
- Blausasc (06019)
- Bonson (06021)
- Breil-sur-Roya (06023)
- Cantaron (06031)
- Cap-d'Ail (06032)
- Castagniers (06034)
- Castellar (06035)
- Castillon (06036)
- Châteauneuf-Villevieille (06039)
- Châteauneuf-d'Entraunes (06040)
- Clans (06042)
- Coaraze (06043)
- Colomars (06046)
- Contes (06048)
- Cuébris (06052)
- Daluis (06053)
- Drap (06054)
- Duranus (06055)
- Entraunes (06056)
- Falicon (06060)
- Fontan (06062)
- Gilette (06066)
- Gorbio (06067)
- Guillaumes (06071)
- Ilonse (06072)
- Isola (06073)
- L'Escarène (06057)
- La Bollène-Vésubie (06020)
- La Brigue (06162)
- La Croix-sur-Roudoule (06051)
- La Penne (06093)
- La Roquette-sur-Var (06109)
- La Tour (06144)
- La Trinité (06149)
- La Turbie (06150)
- Lantosque (06074)
- Levens (06075)
- Lieuche (06076)
- Lucéram (06077)
- Malaussène (06078)
- Marie (06080)
- Massoins (06082)
- Menton (06083)
- Moulinet (06086)
- Nice (06088)
- Peille (06091)
- Peillon (06092)
- Pierlas (06096)
- Pierrefeu (06097)
- Puget-Rostang (06098)
- Puget-Théniers (06099)
- Péone (06094)
- Revest-les-Roches (06100)
- Rigaud (06101)
- Rimplas (06102)
- Roquebillière (06103)
- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (06104)
- Roquesteron (06106)
- Roubion (06110)
- Roure (06111)
- Saint-André-de-la-Roche (06114)
- Saint-Antonin (06115)
- Saint-Blaise (06117)
- Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage (06119)
- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (06121)
- Saint-Léger (06124)
- Saint-Martin-Vésubie (06127)
- Saint-Martin-d'Entraunes (06125)
- Saint-Martin-du-Var (06126)
- Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée (06129)
- Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée (06120)
- Sainte-Agnès (06113)
- Saorge (06132)
- Sauze (06133)
- Sigale (06135)
- Sospel (06136)
- Tende (06163)
- Thiéry (06139)
- Toudon (06141)
- Tourette-du-Château (06145)
- Tournefort (06146)
- Tourrette-Levens (06147)
- Touët-de-l'Escarène (06142)
- Touët-sur-Var (06143)
- Utelle (06151)
- Valdeblore (06153)
- Venanson (06156)
- Villars-sur-Var (06158)
- Villefranche-sur-Mer (06159)
- Villeneuve-d'Entraunes (06160)
- Èze (06059)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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06088 | Nice | 343,895 | Nice-1,Nice-2, Nice3 Nice-4, Nice-5, Nice-6 Nice-7, Nice-8, Nice-9 |
Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
06083 | Menton | 73,744 | Menton | Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française |
06012 | Beausoleil | 13,618 | Beausoleil | Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française |
06104 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | 12,867 | Menton | Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française |
06149 | La Trinité | 10,171 | Nice-7 | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
06048 | Contes | 7,381 | Contes | Le Pays des Paillons |
06114 | Saint-André-de-la-Roche | 5,467 | Nice-7 | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
06159 | Villefranche-sur-Mer | 5,219 | Beausoleil | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
06147 | Tourrette-Levens | 4,836 | Tourrette-Levens | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
06075 | Levens | 4,779 | Tourrette-Levens | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
Arrondissement Of Nice Media
A map of the County of Nice showing the area of the Italian kingdom of Sardinia annexed in 1860 to France (light brown). The area in red had already become part of France before 1860.
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique des Alpes-Maritimes". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-227 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Nice (062)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 18 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 17 July 2017.
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