Arrondissement of Agen
Agen | |
|---|---|
 Location within the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Lot-et-Garonne |
| No. of communes | 71 |
| Prefecture | Agen |
| Area | 1,013.3 km2 (391.2 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 119,981 |
| INSEE code | 471 |
The arrondissement of Agen is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Agen.
History
[change | change source]When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Agen was one of them in the Lot-et-Garonne department.[2]
Geography
[change | change source]The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement Villeneuve-sur-Lot, to the east by the Tarn-et-Garonne department, to the south by the Gers department, to the west by the arrondissement Nérac and to the northwest by the arrondissement Marmande.
It is in the southeast of the department and it is the smallest of the arrondissements of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of 1,013.3 km2 (391 sq mi),[3] and a population of 120,235 inhabitants; its population density is of 118.7 inhabitants/km².[4]
Composition
[change | change source]Cantons
[change | change source]After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Agen, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Le Confluent and Le Pays de Serres. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
| INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agen | Marmande | Villeneuve-sur-Lot | Nérac | |||
| 4701 | Agen-1 | 3 + part of Agen | 3 + part of Agen | |||
| 4702 | Agen-2 | 2 + part of Agen | 2 + part of Agen | |||
| 4703 | Agen-3 | part of Agen | part of Agen | |||
| 4704 | Agen-4 | 1 + part of Agen | 1 + part of Agen | |||
| 4706 | Le Confluent | 19 | 1 | 20 | ||
| 4715 | L'Ouest agenais | 11 | 11 | |||
| 4716 | Le Pays de Serres | 15 | 8 | 23 | ||
| 4717 | Le Sud-Est agenais | 19 | 19 | |||
Communes
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Agen has 71 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[6]
- Agen (47001)
- Aiguillon (47004)
- Astaffort (47015)
- Aubiac (47016)
- Bajamont (47019)
- Bazens (47022)
- Beauville (47025)
- Blaymont (47030)
- Bon-Encontre (47032)
- Bourran (47038)
- Boé (47031)
- Brax (47040)
- Cassignas (47050)
- Castelculier (47051)
- Castella (47053)
- Caudecoste (47060)
- Cauzac (47062)
- Clermont-Dessous (47066)
- Clermont-Soubiran (47067)
- Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (47069)
- Cours (47073)
- Cuq (47076)
- Dondas (47082)
- Engayrac (47087)
- Estillac (47091)
- Fals (47092)
- Foulayronnes (47100)
- Frégimont (47104)
- Galapian (47107)
- Granges-sur-Lot (47111)
- Grayssas (47113)
- La Croix-Blanche (47075)
- La Sauvetat-de-Savères (47289)
- Lacépède (47125)
- Lafox (47128)
- Lagarrigue (47129)
- Laplume (47137)
- Laroque-Timbaut (47138)
- Laugnac (47140)
- Layrac (47145)
- Le Passage (47201)
- Lusignan-Petit (47154)
- Madaillan (47155)
- Marmont-Pachas (47158)
- Moirax (47169)
- Monbalen (47171)
- Montpezat (47190)
- Nicole (47196)
- Pont-du-Casse (47209)
- Port-Sainte-Marie (47210)
- Prayssas (47213)
- Puymirol (47217)
- Roquefort (47225)
- Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm (47234)
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Lusignan (47246)
- Saint-Jean-de-Thurac (47248)
- Saint-Martin-de-Beauville (47255)
- Saint-Maurin (47260)
- Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Balerme (47262)
- Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac (47269)
- Saint-Robert (47273)
- Saint-Romain-le-Noble (47274)
- Saint-Salvy (47275)
- Saint-Sardos (47276)
- Saint-Sixte (47279)
- Saint-Urcisse (47281)
- Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois (47238)
- Sauvagnas (47288)
- Sauveterre-Saint-Denis (47293)
- Sérignac-sur-Garonne (47300)
- Tayrac (47305)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
| INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47001 | Agen | 34,126 | Agen-1, Agen-2 Agen-3, Agen-4 |
Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47201 | Le Passage | 9,546 | Agen-4 | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47032 | Bon-Encontre | 6,166 | Agen-2 | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47031 | Boé | 5,552 | Agen-2 | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47100 | Foulayronnes | 5,262 | Agen-1 | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47004 | Aiguillon | 4,324 | Le Confluent | Le Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas |
| 47209 | Pont-du-Casse | 4,208 | Agen-1 | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47145 | Layrac | 3,520 | Le Sud-Est agenais | Agglomération d'Agen |
| 47069 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq | 2,902 | L'Ouest agenais | Agglomération d'Agen |
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ↑ "Historique de Lot-et-Garonne". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Arrondissement d'Agen (471)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
- ↑ "Décret n° 2014-257 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ "Arrondissement d'Agen (471)". Géographie administrative et d'étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 25 April 2017.