Arrondissement of Montauban

The **arrondissement of Montauban** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Tarn-et-Garonne _département_. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Montauban.

## History

When the Tarn-et-Garonne department was created in 1808, Montauban was one of the original _arrondissements_ of the department.

## Geography

It is the easternmost of the _arrondissements_ of the department, with an area of , the largest in area of the two _arrondissements_ of the department. It has 175,756 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The _arrondissement_ is bordered to the north by the Lot (Occitanie) department, to the northeast by the Aveyron (Occitanie) department, to the east by the Tarn (Occitanie) department, to the south by the Haute-Garonne (Occitanie) department and to the west by the _arrondissement_ of Castelsarrasin.

### 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_. That is the case of the Beaumont-de-Lomagne, Castelsarrasin, Montech and the Pays de Serres Sud-Quercy cantons where some _communes_ are in the _arrondissement_ of Montauban and others in the _arrondissement_ of Castelsarrasin. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and _arrondissements_:

|INSEE Code || Canton || Castelsarrasin || Montauban || Total|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|8201|Aveyron-Lère||5|**5**|
|8202|Beaumont-de-Lomagne|28|4|**32**|
|8203|Castelsarrasin|5|1|**6**|
|8206|Montauban-1||part of Montauban|part of Montauban|
|8207|Montauban-2||part of Montauban|part of Montauban|
|8208|Montauban-3||part of Montauban|part of Montauban|
|8209|Montech|1|8|**9**|
|8210|Pays de Serres Sud-Quercy|20|4|**24**|
|8211|Quercy-Aveyron||15|**15**|
|8212|Quercy-Rouergue||25|**25**|
|8213|Tarn-Tescou-Quercy vert||15|**15**|
|8215|Verdun-sur-Garonne||13|**13**|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Montauban has 92 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes):

1. Albias <small>(82002)</small>
1. Aucamville <small>(82005)</small>
1. Auty <small>(82007)</small>
1. Beaupuy <small>(82014)</small>
1. Bessens <small>(82017)</small>
1. Bioule <small>(82018)</small>
1. Bouillac <small>(82020)</small>
1. Bourret <small>(82023)</small>
1. Bressols <small>(82025)</small>
1. Bruniquel <small>(82026)</small>
1. Campsas <small>(82027)</small>
1. Canals <small>(82028)</small>
1. Castanet <small>(82029)</small>
1. Caussade <small>(82037)</small>
1. Caylus <small>(82038)</small>
1. Cayrac <small>(82039)</small>
1. Cayriech <small>(82040)</small>
1. Cazals <small>(82041)</small>
1. Comberouger <small>(82043)</small>
1. Corbarieu <small>(82044)</small>
1. Dieupentale <small>(82048)</small>
1. Escatalens <small>(82052)</small>
1. Espinas <small>(82056)</small>
1. Fabas <small>(82057)</small>
1. Finhan <small>(82062)</small>
1. Féneyrols <small>(82061)</small>
1. Ginals <small>(82069)</small>
1. Grisolles <small>(82075)</small>
1. Génébrières <small>(82066)</small>
1. L'Honor-de-Cos <small>(82076)</small>
1. La Salvetat-Belmontet <small>(82176)</small>
1. La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple <small>(82096)</small>
1. Labarthe <small>(82077)</small>
1. Labastide-Saint-Pierre <small>(82079)</small>
1. Labastide-de-Penne <small>(82078)</small>
1. Lacapelle-Livron <small>(82082)</small>
1. Lacourt-Saint-Pierre <small>(82085)</small>
1. Lafrançaise <small>(82087)</small>
1. Laguépie <small>(82088)</small>
1. Lamothe-Capdeville <small>(82090)</small>
1. Lapenche <small>(82092)</small>
1. Lavaurette <small>(82095)</small>
1. Loze <small>(82100)</small>
1. Léojac <small>(82098)</small>
1. Mas-Grenier <small>(82105)</small>
1. Mirabel <small>(82110)</small>
1. Molières <small>(82113)</small>
1. Monbéqui <small>(82114)</small>
1. Monclar-de-Quercy <small>(82115)</small>
1. Montalzat <small>(82119)</small>
1. Montastruc <small>(82120)</small>
1. Montauban <small>(82121)</small>
1. Montbartier <small>(82123)</small>
1. Montbeton <small>(82124)</small>
1. Montech <small>(82125)</small>
1. Monteils <small>(82126)</small>
1. Montfermier <small>(82128)</small>
1. Montpezat-de-Quercy <small>(82131)</small>
1. Montricoux <small>(82132)</small>
1. Mouillac <small>(82133)</small>
1. Nohic <small>(82135)</small>
1. Nègrepelisse <small>(82134)</small>
1. Orgueil <small>(82136)</small>
1. Parisot <small>(82137)</small>
1. Piquecos <small>(82140)</small>
1. Pompignan <small>(82142)</small>
1. Puycornet <small>(82144)</small>
1. Puygaillard-de-Quercy <small>(82145)</small>
1. Puylagarde <small>(82147)</small>
1. Puylaroque <small>(82148)</small>
1. Reyniès <small>(82150)</small>
1. Réalville <small>(82149)</small>
1. Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val <small>(82155)</small>
1. Saint-Cirq <small>(82159)</small>
1. Saint-Étienne-de-Tulmont <small>(82161)</small>
1. Saint-Georges <small>(82162)</small>
1. Saint-Nauphary <small>(82167)</small>
1. Saint-Porquier <small>(82171)</small>
1. Saint-Projet <small>(82172)</small>
1. Saint-Sardos <small>(82173)</small>
1. Saint-Vincent <small>(82174)</small>
1. Savenès <small>(82178)</small>
1. Septfonds <small>(82179)</small>
1. Varen <small>(82187)</small>
1. Varennes <small>(82188)</small>
1. Vazerac <small>(82189)</small>
1. Vaïssac <small>(82184)</small>
1. Verdun-sur-Garonne <small>(82190)</small>
1. Verfeil <small>(82191)</small>
1. Verlhac-Tescou <small>(82192)</small>
1. Villebrumier <small>(82194)</small>
1. Villemade <small>(82195)</small>

The _communes_ with more inhabitants in the _arrondissement_ are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton || Intercommunality|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|82121|Montauban|58,826|Montauban-1, Montauban-2 and Montauban-3|Grand Montauban|
|82037|Caussade|6,805|Aveyron-Lère|Le Quercy Caussadais|
|82125|Montech|6,158|Montech|Garonne et Canal|
|82134|Nègrepelisse|5,511|Aveyron-Lère|Terrasses et Vallée de l'Aveyron|
|82190|Verdun-sur-Garonne|4,660|Verdun-sur-Garonne|Le Pays de Garonne et de Gascogne|
|82075|Grisolles|3,925|Verdun-sur-Garonne|Le Terroir Grisolles/Villebrumier|
|82124|Montbeton|3,918|Montech|Grand Montauban|
|82161|Saint-Étienne-de-Tulmont|3,730|Aveyron-Lère|Terrasses et Vallée de l'Aveyron|
|82079|Labastide-Saint-Pierre|3,646|Tarn-Tescou-Quercy vert|Le Terroir Grisolles/Villebrumier|
|82025|Bressols|3,645|Montech|Grand Montauban|
|82002|Albias|3,187|Quercy-Aveyron|Terrasses et Vallée de l'Aveyron|
|82096|La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple|3,184|Castelsarrasin|Les Terrasses et Plaines des Deux Cantons|

## Related pages

- Arrondissements of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
- Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Montauban
- **insee**: 822
- **nbcomm**: 92
- **prefecture**: y
- **seat**: Montauban
- **area**: 2116.8
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Montauban 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Occitanie