Arrondissement of Ussel
The arrondissement of Ussel is an arrondissement of France, in the Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Ussel.
Country | France |
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Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Corrèze |
No. of communes | 79 |
Subprefecture | Ussel |
Area | 2,021.9 km2 (780.7 sq mi) |
INSEE code | 193 |
History
When the Corrèze department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Ussel was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
It is the northernmost arrondissement of the department with an area of 1,766.1 square kilometres (681.9 square miles).[2] It has 32,898 inhabitants (2014) and a density of 18.6 inhabitants/km².[3]
The arrondissement of Ussel is in the northern part of the department and is bordered to the northwest (a small part) by the Haute-Vienne department, to the north by the Creuse department, to the east by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the southeast by the Cantal department, and to the southwest and west by the arrondissement of Tulle.
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 Ussel, only one canton does not have all their "communes" in the arrondissement: the Haute-Dordogne. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||
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Brive-la-Gaillarde | Tulle | Ussel | |||
1907 | Égletons | 18 | 18 | ||
1908 | Haute-Dordogne | 2 | 24 | 26 | |
1912 | Plateau de Millevaches | 33 | 33 | ||
1917 | Ussel | 11 | 11 |
Communes
The arrondissement of Ussel has 80 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[5]
- Aix (19002)
- Alleyrat (19006)
- Ambrugeat (19008)
- Bellechassagne (19021)
- Bort-les-Orgues (19028)
- Bugeat (19033)
- Champagnac-la-Noaille (19039)
- Chapelle-Spinasse (19046)
- Chaumeil (19051)
- Chavanac (19052)
- Chaveroche (19053)
- Chirac-Bellevue (19055)
- Combressol (19058)
- Couffy-sur-Sarsonne (19064)
- Courteix (19065)
- Darnets (19070)
- Davignac (19071)
- Égletons (19073)
- Eygurande (19080)
- Feyt (19083)
- Le Jardin (19092)
- Lafage-sur-Sombre (19097)
- Lamazière-Basse (19102)
- Lamazière-Haute (19103)
- Lapleau (19106)
- Laroche-près-Feyt (19108)
- Latronche (19110)
- Laval-sur-Luzège (19111)
- Liginiac (19113)
- Lignareix (19114)
- Marcillac-la-Croisille (19125)
- Margerides (19128)
- Maussac (19130)
- Merlines (19134)
- Mestes (19135)
- Meymac (19136)
- Meyrignac-l'Église (19137)
- Millevaches (19139)
- Monestier-Merlines (19141)
- Monestier-Port-Dieu (19142)
- Montaignac-Saint-Hippolyte (19143)
- Moustier-Ventadour (19145)
- Neuvic (19148)
- Palisse (19157)
- Péret-Bel-Air (19159)
- Pérols-sur-Vézère (19160)
- Peyrelevade (19164)
- Confolent-Port-Dieu (19167)
- Roche-le-Peyroux (19175)
- Rosiers-d'Égletons (19176)
- Saint-Angel (19180)
- Saint-Bonnet-près-Bort (19190)
- Saint-Étienne-aux-Clos (19199)
- Saint-Étienne-la-Geneste (19200)
- Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches (19201)
- Saint-Fréjoux (19204)
- Saint-Germain-Lavolps (19206)
- Saint-Hilaire-Foissac (19208)
- Saint-Hilaire-Luc (19210)
- Sainte-Marie-Lapanouze (19219)
- Saint-Merd-de-Lapleau (19225)
- Saint-Merd-les-Oussines (19226)
- Saint-Pantaléon-de-Lapleau (19228)
- Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf (19232)
- Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux (19233)
- Saint-Rémy (19238)
- Saint-Setiers (19241)
- Saint-Sulpice-les-Bois (19244)
- Saint-Victour (19247)
- Saint-Yrieix-le-Déjalat (19249)
- Sarran (19251)
- Sarroux-Saint Julien (19252)
- Sérandon (19256)
- Sornac (19261)
- Soudeilles (19263)
- Soursac (19264)
- Thalamy (19266)
- Ussel (19275)
- Valiergues (19277)
- Veyrières (19283)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[3] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
19275 | Ussel | 9,772 | Ussel | Haute-Corrèze Communauté |
19073 | Égletons | 4,304 | Égletons | Ventadour - Egletons - Monédières |
19028 | Bort-les-Orgues | 2,792 | Haute-Dordogne | Haute-Corrèze Communauté |
19136 | Meymac | 2,428 | Plateau de Millevaches | Haute-Corrèze Communauté |
19148 | Neuvic | 1,764 | Haute-Dordogne | Haute-Corrèze Communauté |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique de la Corrèze". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Ussel (193)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 25 May 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 25 May 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-228 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Corrèze" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement d'Ussel (193)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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