Arrondissement of Toulon
The arrondissement of Toulon is an arrondissement of France, in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Toulon.
Country | France |
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Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Var |
No. of communes | 32 |
Prefecture | Toulon |
Area | 1,233.5 km2 (476.3 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 832 |
History
When the Var department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Toulon was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Toulon is in the southern part of the Var department. It is bordered to the north by the Brignoles arrondissement, to the east by the Draguignan arrondissement, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the west by the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
The arrondissement of Toulon is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, 1,295.8 square kilometres (500.3 square miles), but the one with more people living in it (565,669 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.
There are 14 cantons in the arrondissement of Toulon and 4 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement
- La Crau (8302) (partly)
- La Garde (8306)
- Garéoult (8307) (partly)
- Hyères (8308)
- Le Luc (8309) (partly)
- Ollioules (8310)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (8312) (partly)
- La Seyne-sur-Mer-1 (8316)
- La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 (8317)
- Solliès-Pont (8318)
- Toulon-1 (8319)
- Toulon-2 (8320)
- Toulon-3 (8321)
- Toulon-4 (8322)
Communes
The arrondissement of Toulon has 32 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[3]
- Bandol (83009)
- Le Beausset (83016)
- Belgentier (83017)
- Bormes-les-Mimosas (83019)
- La Cadière-d'Azur (83027)
- Carqueiranne (83034)
- Le Castellet (83035)
- Collobrières (83043)
- La Crau (83047)
- Cuers (83049)
- Évenos (83053)
- La Farlède (83054)
- La Garde (83062)
- Hyères (83069)
- Le Lavandou (83070)
- La Londe-les-Maures (83071)
- Ollioules (83090)
- Pierrefeu-du-Var (83091)
- Le Pradet (83098)
- Le Revest-les-Eaux (83103)
- Riboux (83105)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (83112)
- Sanary-sur-Mer (83123)
- La Seyne-sur-Mer (83126)
- Signes (83127)
- Six-Fours-les-Plages (83129)
- Solliès-Pont (83130)
- Solliès-Toucas (83131)
- Solliès-Ville (83132)
- Toulon (83137)
- La Valette-du-Var (83144)
- Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer (83153)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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83137 | Toulon | 165,584 | Toulon-1, Toulon-2 Toulon-3, Toulon-4 |
Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83126 | La Seyne-sur-Mer | 64,675 | La Seyne-sur-Mer-1 La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 |
Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83069 | Hyères | 56,502 | La Crau and Hyères | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83129 | Six-Fours-les-Plages | 33,652 | La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83062 | La Garde | 25,145 | La Garde | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83144 | La Valette-du-Var | 22,271 | Toulon-3 | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83047 | La Crau | 16,749 | La Crau | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83123 | Sanary-sur-Mer | 15,963 | Ollioules | Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume |
83090 | Ollioules | 13,167 | Ollioules | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83112 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer | 12,262 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer | Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique du Var". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-270 du 27 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Var" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Toulon (832)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 20 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 19 July 2017.
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