Arrondissement of Lorient

Arrondissement of Lorient
Location of Lorient in Bretagne
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Cantons	15
Communes	60
Sous-préfecture	Lorient
Area¹
• Total	1,489 km2 (574.9 sq mi)
Population (1999)
• Total	281,621
• Density	189.1/km2 (489.9/sq mi)
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² as well as the estuaries of rivers.

The arrondissement of Lorient is an arrondissement of France, located in the Morbihan département, in the Brittany region. It has fifteen cantons and sixty communes.

Composition

Cantons

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lorient are:

1. Auray
2. Belle-Île
3. Belz
4. Groix
5. Hennebont
6. Lanester
7. Lorient-Centre
8. Lorient-Nord
9. Lorient-Sud
10. Ploemeur
11. Plouay
12. Pluvigner
13. Pont-Scorff
14. Port-Louis
15. Quiberon

Communes

The communes of the arrondissement of Lorient, and their INSEE codes, are:

1. Auray (56007)	2. Bangor (56009)	3. Belz (56013)	4. Bono (56262)
5. Brandérion (56021)	6. Brech (56023)	7. Bubry (56026)	8. Calan (56029)
9. Camors (56031)	10. Carnac (56034)	11. Caudan (56036)	12. Cléguer (56040)
13. Crach (56046)	14. Erdeven (56054)	15. Gestel (56063)	16. Groix (56069)
17. Guidel (56078)	18. Gâvres (56062)	19. Hennebont (56083)	20. Hoedic (56085)
21. Inguiniel (56089)	22. Inzinzac-Lochrist (56090)	23. Kervignac (56094)	24. La Trinité-sur-Mer (56258)
25. Landaul (56096)	26. Landévant (56097)	27. Lanester (56098)	28. Languidic (56101)
29. Lanvaudan (56104)	30. Larmor-Plage (56107)	31. Le Palais (56152)	32. Locmaria (56114)
33. Locmariaquer (56116)	34. Locmiquélic (56118)	35. Locoal-Mendon (56119)	36. Lorient (56121)
37. Merlevenez (56130)	38. Nostang (56148)	39. Ploemel (56161)	40. Ploemeur (56162)
41. Plouay (56166)	42. Plougoumelen (56167)	43. Plouharnel (56168)	44. Plouhinec (56169)
45. Plumergat (56175)	46. Pluneret (56176)	47. Pluvigner (56177)	48. Pont-Scorff (56179)
49. Port-Louis (56181)	50. Quiberon (56186)	51. Quistinic (56188)	52. Quéven (56185)
53. Riantec (56193)	54. Saint-Philibert (56233)	55. Saint-Pierre-Quiberon (56234)	56. Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (56263)
57. Sainte-Hélène (56220)	58. Sauzon (56241)	59. Étel (56055)	60. Île-d'Houat (56086)

External links

• Lorient on French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies site (INSEE, in French)