Arrondissement of Pontarlier
The arrondissement of Pontarlier 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 Pontarlier.
Country | France |
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Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
Department | Doubs |
No. of communes | 149 |
Subprefecture | Pontarlier |
Area | 2,050.5 km2 (791.7 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 253 |
History
When the arrondissements of Doubs were created in 1800, Pontarlier was one of them in the Doubs department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Pontarlier is in the most southern of the arrondissements of the Doubs department; it is the largest with an area of 2,034.7 square kilometres (786 square miles).[2] It has a population of 109,841 inhabitants, the arrondissement of the department with fewest inhabitants, and a population density of 54.0 inhabitants/km².[3]
The arrondissement of Pontarlier is bordered to the north by the arrondissement Montbéliard, to the east and south by Switzerland, to the southeast by the Jura department 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 Pontarlier, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Ornans and Valdahon. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Besançon | Montbéliard | Pontarlier | |||
2511 | Frasne | 46 + part of Levier | 46 + part of Levier | ||
2514 | Morteau | 25 | 25 | ||
2515 | Ornans | 41 | 21 + parts of Étalans and Levier | 62 + parts of Étalans and Levier | |
2516 | Pontarlier | 10 | 10 | ||
2518 | Valdahon | 2 | 10 | 45+ part of Étalans | 57 + part of Étalans |
Communes
The arrondissement of Pontarlier has 149 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[5]
- Adam-lès-Vercel (25007)
- Les Alliés (25012)
- Arçon (25024)
- Arc-sous-Cicon (25025)
- Arc-sous-Montenot (25026)
- Aubonne (25029)
- Avoudrey (25039)
- Bannans (25041)
- Le Barboux (25042)
- Le Bélieu (25050)
- Belmont (25052)
- Bians-les-Usiers (25060)
- Le Bizot (25062)
- Bonnétage (25074)
- Bonnevaux (25075)
- La Bosse (25077)
- Boujailles (25079)
- Bouverans (25085)
- Bremondans (25089)
- Bretonvillers (25095)
- Brey-et-Maison-du-Bois (25096)
- Bugny (25099)
- Bulle (25100)
- Chaffois (25110)
- Chamesey (25113)
- Chapelle-des-Bois (25121)
- Chapelle-d'Huin (25122)
- Châtelblanc (25131)
- La Chaux (25139)
- Chaux-lès-Passavant (25141)
- Chaux-Neuve (25142)
- La Chenalotte (25148)
- Chevigney-lès-Vercel (25151)
- La Cluse-et-Mijoux (25157)
- Les Combes (25160)
- Consolation-Maisonnettes (25161)
- Courtetain-et-Salans (25175)
- Courvières (25176)
- Le Crouzet (25179)
- Dommartin (25201)
- Dompierre-les-Tilleuls (25202)
- Domprel (25203)
- Doubs (25204)
- Épenouse (25218)
- Épenoy (25219)
- Étalans (25222)
- Étray (25227)
- Évillers (25229)
- Eysson (25231)
- Fallerans (25233)
- Les Fins (25240)
- Flangebouche (25243)
- Les Fontenelles (25248)
- Fourcatier-et-Maison-Neuve (25252)
- Les Fourgs (25254)
- Fournets-Luisans (25288)
- Frasne (25259)
- Fuans (25262)
- Gellin (25263)
- Germéfontaine (25268)
- Gilley (25271)
- Goux-les-Usiers (25282)
- Grand'Combe-Châteleu (25285)
- Grand'Combe-des-Bois (25286)
- Grandfontaine-sur-Creuse (25289)
- Granges-Narboz (25293)
- Les Grangettes (25295)
- Les Gras (25296)
- Guyans-Vennes (25301)
- Hauterive-la-Fresse (25303)
- Les Hôpitaux-Neufs (25307)
- Les Hôpitaux-Vieux (25308)
- Houtaud (25309)
- Jougne (25318)
- Labergement-Sainte-Marie (25320)
- Landresse (25325)
- Laval-le-Prieuré (25329)
- Laviron (25333)
- Levier (25334)
- Longechaux (25342)
- Longemaison (25343)
- Longevelle-lès-Russey (25344)
- La Longeville (25347)
- Longevilles-Mont-d'Or (25348)
- Loray (25349)
- Le Luhier (25351)
- Magny-Châtelard (25355)
- Maisons-du-Bois-Lièvremont (25357)
- Malbuisson (25361)
- Malpas (25362)
- Le Mémont (25373)
- Métabief (25380)
- Montbéliardot (25389)
- Montbenoît (25390)
- Mont-de-Laval (25391)
- Montflovin (25398)
- Montlebon (25403)
- Montperreux (25405)
- Morteau (25411)
- Mouthe (25413)
- Narbief (25421)
- Noël-Cerneux (25425)
- Orchamps-Vennes (25432)
- Orsans (25435)
- Ouhans (25440)
- Ouvans (25441)
- Oye-et-Pallet (25442)
- Passonfontaine (25447)
- Petite-Chaux (25451)
- Pierrefontaine-les-Varans (25453)
- Plaimbois-du-Miroir (25456)
- Plaimbois-Vennes (25457)
- La Planée (25459)
- Pontarlier (25462)
- Les Pontets (25464)
- Les Premiers-Sapins (25424)
- Reculfoz (25483)
- Remoray-Boujeons (25486)
- Renédale (25487)
- La Rivière-Drugeon (25493)
- Rochejean (25494)
- Rondefontaine (25501)
- Rosureux (25504)
- Le Russey (25512)
- Saint-Antoine (25514)
- Sainte-Colombe (25515)
- Saint-Gorgon-Main (25517)
- Saint-Julien-lès-Russey (25522)
- Saint-Point-Lac (25525)
- Sarrageois (25534)
- Septfontaines (25541)
- Sombacour (25549)
- La Sommette (25550)
- Touillon-et-Loutelet (25565)
- Valdahon (25578)
- Vaux-et-Chantegrue (25592)
- Vellerot-lès-Vercel (25596)
- Vennes (25600)
- Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp (25601)
- Vernierfontaine (25605)
- Verrières-de-Joux (25609)
- Les Villedieu (25619)
- Ville-du-Pont (25620)
- Villeneuve-d'Amont (25621)
- Villers-Chief (25623)
- Villers-la-Combe (25625)
- Villers-le-Lac (25321)
- Villers-sous-Chalamont (25627)
- Vuillecin (25634)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[3] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
25462 | Pontarlier | 17,413 | Pontarlier | Le Grand Pontarlier |
25411 | Morteau | 6,827 | Morteau | Le Val de Morteau |
25578 | Valdahon | 5,344 | Valdahon | Le Pays de Pierrefontaine - Vercel |
25321 | Villers-le-Lac | 4,750 | Morteau | Le Val de Morteau |
25240 | Les Fins | 3,035 | Morteau | Le Val de Morteau |
25204 | Doubs | 2,808 | Pontarlier | Le Grand Pontarlier |
25512 | Le Russey | 2,256 | Morteau | Le Plateau de Russey |
25432 | Orchamps-Vennes | 2,047 | Valdahon | Le Pays de Pierrefontaine - Vercel |
25334 | Levier | 2,035 | Frasne and Ornans | Altitude 800 |
25403 | Montlebon | 2,010 | Morteau | Le Val de Morteau |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique du Doubs". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 28 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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