Arrondissement of Alès
Alès | |
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![]() Location within the region Occitanie | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitanie |
Department | Gard |
No. of communes | 97 |
Subprefecture | Alès |
Area | 1,304.2 km2 (503.6 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 150,479 |
INSEE code | 301 |
The arrondissement of Alès is an arrondissement of France, in the Gard department, Occitanie region. Its capital is the city of Alès.
History
[change | change source]When the Gard department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Alès, with the name of Alais, was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Alès is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Gard department. It is bordered to the north by the Ardèche department, to the east by the Nîmes arrondissement, to the south by the Le Vigan arrondissement and to the west by the Lozère department.
The arrondissement of Alès is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, 1,321.6 km2 (510.3 sq mi),[3] and the second in population (151,823 inhabitants).[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 Alès, there are three cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Cazères, Escalquens and Plaisance-du-Touch. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondiissements:
INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alès | Nîmes | Le Vigan | |||
3002 | Alès-1 | 7 + part of Alès | 7 + part of Alès | ||
3003 | Alès-2 | 10 + part of Alès | 4 | 14 + part of Alès | |
3004 | Alès-3 | 13 + part of Alès | 13 + part of Alès | ||
3008 | La Grand-Combe | 24 | 4 | 28 | |
3015 | Quissac | 17 | 3 | 24 | 44 |
3015 | Rousson | 29 | 29 | ||
Total | 101 |
Communes
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Alès has 101 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[6]
- Aigremont (30002)
- Allègre-les-Fumades (30008)
- Alès (30007)
- Anduze (30010)
- Aujac (30022)
- Bagard (30027)
- Barjac (30029)
- Bessèges (30037)
- Boisset-et-Gaujac (30042)
- Bonnevaux (30044)
- Bordezac (30045)
- Boucoiran-et-Nozières (30046)
- Bouquet (30048)
- Branoux-les-Taillades (30051)
- Brignon (30053)
- Brouzet-lès-Alès (30055)
- Cardet (30068)
- Cassagnoles (30071)
- Castelnau-Valence (30072)
- Cendras (30077)
- Chambon (30079)
- Chamborigaud (30080)
- Concoules (30090)
- Corbès (30094)
- Courry (30097)
- Cruviers-Lascours (30100)
- Deaux (30101)
- Domessargues (30104)
- Euzet (30109)
- Gagnières (30120)
- Génolhac (30130)
- Générargues (30129)
- La Grand-Combe (30132)
- La Vernarède (30345)
- Lamelouze (30137)
- Laval-Pradel (30142)
- Le Martinet (30159)
- Les Mages (30152)
- Les Plans (30197)
- Les Salles-du-Gardon (30307)
- Lédignan (30146)
- Lézan (30147)
- Malons-et-Elze (30153)
- Martignargues (30158)
- Maruéjols-lès-Gardon (30160)
- Massanes (30161)
- Massillargues-Attuech (30162)
- Mauressargues (30163)
- Meyrannes (30167)
- Mialet (30168)
- Molières-sur-Cèze (30171)
- Mons (30173)
- Monteils (30177)
- Méjannes-le-Clap (30164)
- Méjannes-lès-Alès (30165)
- Navacelles (30187)
- Ners (30188)
- Peyremale (30194)
- Ponteils-et-Brésis (30201)
- Portes (30203)
- Potelières (30204)
- Ribaute-les-Tavernes (30214)
- Rivières (30215)
- Robiac-Rochessadoule (30216)
- Rochegude (30218)
- Rousson (30223)
- Saint-Ambroix (30227)
- Saint-Brès (30237)
- Saint-Bénézet (30234)
- Saint-Christol-lès-Alès (30243)
- Saint-Césaire-de-Gauzignan (30240)
- Saint-Denis (30247)
- Saint-Florent-sur-Auzonnet (30253)
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas (30259)
- Saint-Hippolyte-de-Caton (30261)
- Saint-Jean-de-Ceyrargues (30264)
- Saint-Jean-de-Maruéjols-et-Avéjan (30266)
- Saint-Jean-de-Serres (30267)
- Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle (30268)
- Saint-Jean-du-Gard (30269)
- Saint-Jean-du-Pin (30270)
- Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas (30271)
- Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers (30274)
- Saint-Just-et-Vacquières (30275)
- Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues (30284)
- Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille (30285)
- Saint-Paul-la-Coste (30291)
- Saint-Privat-de-Champclos (30293)
- Saint-Privat-des-Vieux (30294)
- Saint-Sébastien-d'Aigrefeuille (30298)
- Saint-Victor-de-Malcap (30303)
- Saint-Étienne-de-l'Olm (30250)
- Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge (30239)
- Salindres (30305)
- Servas (30318)
- Seynes (30320)
- Soustelle (30323)
- Sénéchas (30316)
- Tharaux (30327)
- Tornac (30330)
- Vézénobres (30348)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
---|---|---|---|---|
30007 | Alès | 39,993 | Alès-1, Alès-2 and Alès-3 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30243 | Saint-Christol-lès-Alès | 6,951 | Alès-1 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30132 | La Grand-Combe | 5,162 | La Grand-Combe | Le Pays Grand Combien |
30294 | Saint-Privat-des-Vieux | 5,083 | Alès-2 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30284 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues | 4,325 | Alès-2 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30259 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas | 4,200 | Alès-3 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30223 | Rousson | 3,967 | Rousson | Vivre en Cévennes |
30010 | Anduze | 3,431 | Alès-1 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30274 | Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers | 3,295 | Rousson | Vivre en Cévennes |
30305 | Salindres | 3,229 | Alès-2 | Communauté d'agglomération Alès Agglomération |
30227 | Saint-Ambroix | 3,176 | Rousson | Cèze Cévennes |
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 Gard". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ↑ "Département du Gard (30)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 15 March 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 12 March 2017.
- ↑ "Décret n° 2014-232 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Gard" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ↑ "Arrondissement d'Alès (301)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 10 January 2017.