Aisne contains the administrative territorial entity arrondissement of Saint-Quentin
Representatives in the National Assembly
Administration
Aisne is divided into five arrondissements and 21 cantons. The department has 798 communes and five parliamentary constituencies.Demography
Aisne lost some of its population in the second half of the 19th century, due to the rural exodus but this was limited by the industrial development in the north of the department (Saint-Quentin, Chaunois, Thiérache).
Greatly affected by the First World War, the department has seen its population grow slightly to the same level as in 1900. For thirty years, the industrial decline has caused stagnation of the population (526,346 in 1968, 535,489 in 1999). Only the south-west of the department, close to the Paris conurbation, has seen much population growth.
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