Arrondissement of Draguignan
Draguignan | |
---|---|
Country | France |
Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Var |
No. of communes | 54 |
Subprefecture | Draguignan |
Area | 2,220.8 km2 (857.5 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 310,401 |
INSEE code | 831 |
The arrondissement of Draguignan is an arrondissement of France, in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Draguignan.
History
[change | change source]When the Var department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Draguignan was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Draguignan is the most eastern of the arrondissements of the Var department. It is bordered to the north by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, to the east by the Alpes-Maritimes department, to the south by the Toulon arrondissement and to the west by the Brignoles arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Draguignan is the largest arrondissement of the department in area, 2,416.5 km2 (933.0 sq mi), but the second in population (321,569 inhabitants).
Composition
[change | change source]Cantons
[change | change source]After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are 9 cantons in the arrondissement of Draguignan and 3 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement:
- La Crau (8302) (partly)
- Draguignan (8303)
- Flayosc (8304) (partly)
- Fréjus (8305)
- Le Luc (8309) (partly)
- Roquebrune-sur-Argens (8311)
- Sainte-Maxime (8313)
- Saint-Raphaël (8315)
- Vidauban (8323)
Communes
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Draguignan has 54 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]
- Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel (83001)
- Ampus (83003)
- Les ArcsLes Arcs (83004)
- Bagnols-en-Forêt (83008)
- Bargème (83010)
- Bargemon (83011)
- La Bastide (83013)
- Le Bourguet (83020)
- Brenon (83022)
- Callas (83028)
- Callian (83029)
- Cavalaire-sur-Mer (83036)
- Châteaudouble (83038)
- Châteauvieux (83040)
- Claviers (83041)
- Cogolin (83042)
- Comps-sur-Artuby (83044)
- La Croix-Valmer (83048)
- Draguignan (83050)
- Fayence (83055)
- Figanières (83056)
- Flayosc (83058)
- Fréjus (83061)
- La Garde-Freinet (83063)
- Gassin (83065)
- Grimaud (83068)
- Lorgues (83072)
- La Martre (83074)
- La Môle (83079)
- Mons (83080)
- Montauroux (83081)
- Montferrat (83082)
- La Motte (83085)
- Le Muy (83086)
- Le Plan-de-la-Tour (83094)
- Puget-sur-Argens (83099)
- Ramatuelle (83101)
- Roquebrune-sur-Argens (83107)
- La Roque-Esclapon (83109)
- Sainte-Maxime (83115)
- Saint-Paul-en-Forêt (83117)
- Saint-Raphaël (83118)
- Saint-Tropez (83119)
- Salernes (83121)
- Seillans (83124)
- Sillans-la-Cascade (83128)
- Tanneron (83133)
- Taradeau (83134)
- Tourrettes (83138)
- Trans-en-Provence (83141)
- Trigance (83142)
- Vidauban (83148)
- Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer (83152)
- Saint-Antonin-du-Var (83154)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[5] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
83061 | Fréjus | 53,511 | Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël | Communauté d'agglomération Var Estérel Méditerranée |
83050 | Draguignan | 40,054 | Draguignan | Communauté d'agglomération Dracénoise |
83118 | Saint-Raphaël | 34,567 | Saint-Raphaël | Communauté d'agglomération Var Estérel Méditerranée |
83115 | Sainte-Maxime | 14,018 | Sainte-Maxime | Le Golfe de Saint-Tropez |
83042 | Cogolin | 12,517 | Sainte-Maxime | Le Golfe de Saint-Tropez |
83107 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens | 12,344 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens | Communauté d'agglomération Var Estérel Méditerranée |
83148 | Vidauban | 11,152 | Vidauban | Communauté d'agglomération Dracénoise |
83086 | Le Muy | 9,389 | Vidauban | Communauté d'agglomération Dracénoise |
83072 | Lorgues | 9,116 | Vidauban | Communauté d'agglomération Dracénoise |
83099 | Puget-sur-Argens | 7,322 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens | Communauté d'agglomération Var Estérel Méditerranée |
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 du Var". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Draguignan (831)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ↑ "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.