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Arrondissement of Montpellier

Coordinates: 43°36′33″N 3°52′21″E / 43.60917°N 3.87250°E / 43.60917; 3.87250
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Arrondissement of Montpellier
Settlement
CountryFrance
Population
 (2013)
689,922

The arrondissement of Montpellier is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Hérault département. Its INSEE code is 343 and its capital city, and prefecture of the department, is Montpellier. Since the January 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Hérault, it has 68 communes.[1]

In 2012, before its borders were modified, it had an area of 1,294.6 km2 (499.8 sq mi),[2] a population of 681,343 inhabitants and a density of 526.3 inhabitants/km².[3]

The main cities in the arrondissement are Montpellier (268,456 inhabitants), Sète (44,558 inhabitants), Lunel (25,405 inhabitants), Frontignan (22,728 inhabitants), Mauguio (16,7865 inhabitants), Castelnau-le-Lez (16,664 inhabitants), Lattes (15,719 inhabitants) and Mèze (10,917 inhabitants).[3]

History

When the Hérault department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Montpellier was part of that original department.[4] In 2009 it lost the three cantons of Aniane, Ganges and Saint-Martin-de-Londres to the arrondissement of Lodève.[5]

Geography

The arrondissement covers the northeastern part of the department and is bordered to the north and northeast by the Gard department, to the east and south by the Gulf of Lyon (Mediterranean Sea), to the southwest by the arrondissement of Béziers and to the west by the arrondissement of Lodève.

Composition

Cantons

The cantons of the arrondissement of Montpellier are:

  1. Agde (partly)
  2. Le Crès
  3. Frontignan
  4. Lattes
  5. Lunel
  6. Mauguio
  7. Mèze (partly)
  8. Montpellier-1
  9. Montpellier-2
  10. Montpellier-3
  11. Montpellier-4
  12. Montpellier-5
  13. Montpellier - Castelnau-le-Lez
  14. Pignan
  15. Saint-Gély-du-Fesc (partly)
  16. Sète

Communes

The communes of the arrondissement of Montpellier are (with their INSEE codes):

  1. Baillargues (34022)
  2. Balaruc-le-Vieux (34024)
  3. Balaruc-les-Bains (34023)
  4. Beaulieu (34027)
  5. Boisseron (34033)
  6. Bouzigues (34039)
  7. Campagne (34048)
  8. Candillargues (34050)
  9. Castelnau-le-Lez (34057)
  10. Castries (34058)
  11. Clapiers (34077)
  12. Cournonsec (34087)
  13. Cournonterral (34088)
  14. Le Crès (34090)
  15. Fabrègues (34095)
  16. Frontignan (34108)
  17. Galargues (34110)
  18. Garrigues (34112)
  19. Gigean (34113)
  20. Grabels (34116)
  21. La Grande-Motte (34344)
  22. Jacou (34120)
  23. Juvignac (34123)
  24. Lansargues (34127)
  25. Lattes (34129)
  26. Lavérune (34134)
  27. Loupian (34143)
  28. Lunel (34145)
  29. Lunel-Viel (34146)
  30. Marseillan (34150)
  31. Marsillargues (34151)
  32. Mauguio (34154)
  33. Mireval (34159)
  34. Montaud (34164)
  35. Montbazin (34165)
  36. Montferrier-sur-Lez (34169)
  37. Montpellier (34172)
  38. Mudaison (34176)
  39. Murviel-lès-Montpellier (34179)
  40. Mèze (34157)
  41. Palavas-les-Flots (34192)
  42. Pignan (34202)
  43. Poussan (34213)
  44. Prades-le-Lez (34217)
  45. Pérols (34198)
  46. Restinclières (34227)
  47. Saint-Aunès (34240)
  48. Saint-Brès (34244)
  49. Saint-Christol (34246)
  50. Saint-Drézéry (34249)
  51. Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues (34256)
  52. Saint-Georges-d'Orques (34259)
  53. Saint-Jean-de-Védas (34270)
  54. Saint-Just (34272)
  55. Saint-Nazaire-de-Pézan (34280)
  56. Saint-Sériès (34288)
  57. Saturargues (34294)
  58. Saussan (34295)
  59. Saussines (34296)
  60. Sussargues (34307)
  61. Sète (34301)
  62. Valergues (34321)
  63. Vendargues (34327)
  64. Vérargues (34330)
  65. Vic-la-Gardiole (34333)
  66. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone (34337)
  67. Villetelle (34340)
  68. Villeveyrac (34341)

References

  1. ^ "Arrêté préfectoral, 29 December 2016, p 62" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  2. ^ "Arrondissement de Montpellier (343) - Résumé statistique". Publications et statistiques pour la France ou les régions (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Populations lègales 2012 - 34-Hérault". Populations légales 2012 des départements et des collectivités d'outre-mer (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Historique de l'Hérault". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  5. ^ INSEE, Modifications territoriales

43°36′33″N 3°52′21″E / 43.60917°N 3.87250°E / 43.60917; 3.87250

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