The arrondissement of Dax is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Landes département. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Dax.

History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Dax was one of them in the Landes department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Dax is in the southwest of the Landes department; it has an area of , and a population of 220,656 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north and east by the arrondissement of Mont-de-Marsan, to the south by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and to the west by the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean).

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Dax, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Côte d'Argent and Pays morcenais tarusate. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Dax has 152 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Amou (40002)
 Angoumé (40003)
 Angresse (40004)
 Argelos (40007)
 Arsague (40011)
 Audon (40018)
 Azur (40021)
 Baigts (40023)
 Bassercles (40027)
 Bastennes (40028)
 Bégaar (40031)
 Bélus (40034)
 Bénesse-lès-Dax (40035)
 Bénesse-Maremne (40036)
 Bergouey (40038)
 Beylongue (40040)
 Beyries (40041)
 Biarrotte (40042)
 Biaudos (40044)
 Bonnegarde (40047)
 Brassempouy (40054)
 Cagnotte (40059)
 Candresse (40063)
 Capbreton (40065)
 Carcarès-Sainte-Croix (40066)
 Carcen-Ponson (40067)
 Cassen (40068)
 Castaignos-Souslens (40069)
 Castelnau-Chalosse (40071)
 Castel-Sarrazin (40074)
 Castets (40075)
 Cauneille (40077)
 Caupenne (40078)
 Clermont (40084)
 Dax (40088)
 Doazit (40089)
 Donzacq (40090)
 Estibeaux (40095)
 Gaas (40101)
 Gamarde-les-Bains (40104)
 Garrey (40106)
 Gaujacq (40109)
 Gibret (40112)
 Goos (40113)
 Gourbera (40114)
 Gousse (40115)
 Gouts (40116)
 Habas (40118)
 Hastingues (40120)
 Hauriet (40121)
 Herm (40123)
 Heugas (40125)
 Hinx (40126)
 Josse (40129)
 Labatut (40132)
 Labenne (40133)
 Lahosse (40141)
 Laluque (40142)
 Lamothe (40143)
 Larbey (40144)
 Laurède (40147)
 Léon (40150)
 Lesgor (40151)
 Le Leuy (40153)
 Lévignacq (40154)
 Linxe (40155)
 Lit-et-Mixe (40157)
 Louer (40159)
 Lourquen (40160)
 Magescq (40168)
 Marpaps (40173)
 Maylis (40177)
 Mées (40179)
 Meilhan (40180)
 Messanges (40181)
 Mimbaste (40183)
 Misson (40186)
 Moliets-et-Maa (40187)
 Montfort-en-Chalosse (40194)
 Mouscardès (40199)
 Mugron (40201)
 Narrosse (40202)
 Nassiet (40203)
 Nerbis (40204)
 Nousse (40205)
 Oeyregave (40206)
 Oeyreluy (40207)
 Onard (40208)
 Ondres (40209)
 Orist (40211)
 Orthevielle (40212)
 Orx (40213)
 Ossages (40214)
 Ozourt (40216)
 Pey (40222)
 Peyrehorade (40224)
 Pomarez (40228)
 Pontonx-sur-l'Adour (40230)
 Port-de-Lanne (40231)
 Pouillon (40233)
 Poyanne (40235)
 Poyartin (40236)
 Préchacq-les-Bains (40237)
 Rion-des-Landes (40243)
 Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby (40244)
 Saint-André-de-Seignanx (40248)
 Saint-Aubin (40249)
 Saint-Barthélemy (40251)
 Saint-Cricq-du-Gave (40254)
 Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse (40271)
 Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe (40256)
 Saint-Geours-d'Auribat (40260)
 Saint-Geours-de-Maremne (40261)
 Saint-Jean-de-Lier (40263)
 Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq (40264)
 Saint-Julien-en-Born (40266)
 Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse (40268)
 Saint-Lon-les-Mines (40269)
 Saint-Martin-de-Hinx (40272)
 Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx (40273)
 Saint-Michel-Escalus (40276)
 Saint-Pandelon (40277)
 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (40279)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (40283)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse (40284)
 Saint-Yaguen (40285)
 Saubion (40291)
 Saubrigues (40292)
 Saubusse (40293)
 Saugnac-et-Cambran (40294)
 Seignosse (40296)
 Seyresse (40300)
 Siest (40301)
 Soorts-Hossegor (40304)
 Sorde-l'Abbaye (40306)
 Sort-en-Chalosse (40308)
 Souprosse (40309)
 Soustons (40310)
 Taller (40311)
 Tarnos (40312)
 Tartas (40313)
 Tercis-les-Bains (40314)
 Téthieu (40315)
 Tilh (40316)
 Tosse (40317)
 Toulouzette (40318)
 Uza (40322)
 Vicq-d'Auribat (40324)
 Vielle-Saint-Girons (40326)
 Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains (40328)
 Villenave (40330)
 Yzosse (40334)

The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Landes department
 Communes of the Landes department

References

Dax