It is the southernmost and the smallest of the "arrondissements" of the department, with an area of . It is also the "arrondissement" with fewer people living there, with 37,945 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north by the Auch and Condom "arrondissements", to the southeast by the Haute-Garonne department, to the south by the Hautes-Pyrénées and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments, and to the west by the Landes department.
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 Mirande, there are two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": Astarac-Gimone and Fezensac. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
The "arrondissement" of Mirande has 150 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" in the "arrondissement" with more inhabitants are:
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The Gers is a French river that flows through the Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers and Lot-et-Garonne departments, in the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions. The Gers department is named after this river.
The river's source is in the Pyrenees and is a left tributary of the Garonne river. In general, it flows from south to north.
The Gers river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of .
The source of the Gers is on the Plateau de Lannemezan, in the Lannemezan "commune" (Hautes-Pyrénées), at an altitude of .
The Gers passes through the departments and towns of:
The Gers river flows through 48 "communes" and 11 "cantons".
Finally, it flows into the Garonne river to the south of Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), in the Layrac "commune", at of altitude.
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