Arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde

The **arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde** is an arrondissement of France, in the Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Brive-la-Gaillarde (or _Brive_ for short).

## History

When the Corrèze department was created on 1800, the _arrondissement_ of Brive-la-Gaillarde was part of that original department.

## Geography

It is the southernmost of the _arrondissements_ of the department with an area of . It has 130,034 inhabitants (2014) and a density of  inhabitants/km².

The _arrondissement_ of Brive-la-Gaillarde is in the southeastern part of department and is bordered to the north by the Haute-Vienne department, to the northeast and east by the _arrondissement_ of Tulle, to the south by the Lot department and to the west by the Dordogne department.

### 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde, only two cantons do not have all their "communes" in the _arrondissement_:  (Midi corrézien and Uzerche). The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and _arrondissements_:

|rowspan="2"|INSEE Code || rowspan="2" | Canton || colspan="3" | Arrondissements || rowspan="2" | Total|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1901|Allassac|12|||**12**|
|1903|Brive-la-Gaillarde-1|part of Brive|||part of Brive|
|1904|Brive-la-Gaillarde-2|part of Brive|||part of Brive|
|1905|Brive-la-Gaillarde-3|2 + part of Brive|||**2** + part of Brive|
|1906|Brive-la-Gaillarde-4|part of Brive|||part of Brive|
|1909|Malemort-sur-Corrèze|4|||**4**|
|1910|Midi corrézien|33|1||**34**|
|1913|Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche|13|||**13**|
|1918|Uzerche|12|9||**21**|
|1919|L'Yssandonnais|21|||**21**|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Brive-la-Gaillarde has 97 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

1. Albignac <small>(19003)</small>
1. Allassac <small>(19005)</small>
1. Altillac <small>(19007)</small>
1. Arnac-Pompadour <small>(19011)</small>
1. Astaillac <small>(19012)</small>
1. Aubazines <small>(19013)</small>
1. Ayen <small>(19015)</small>
1. Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne <small>(19019)</small>
1. Benayes <small>(19022)</small>
1. Beynat <small>(19023)</small>
1. Beyssac <small>(19024)</small>
1. Beyssenac <small>(19025)</small>
1. Bilhac <small>(19026)</small>
1. Branceilles <small>(19029)</small>
1. Brignac-la-Plaine <small>(19030)</small>
1. Brive-la-Gaillarde <small>(19031)</small>
1. Brivezac <small>(19032)</small>
1. Chabrignac <small>(19035)</small>
1. La Chapelle-aux-Brocs <small>(19043)</small>
1. La Chapelle-aux-Saints <small>(19044)</small>
1. Chartrier-Ferrière <small>(19047)</small>
1. Chasteaux <small>(19049)</small>
1. Chauffour-sur-Vell <small>(19050)</small>
1. Chenailler-Mascheix <small>(19054)</small>
1. Collonges-la-Rouge <small>(19057)</small>
1. Concèze <small>(19059)</small>
1. Cosnac <small>(19063)</small>
1. Cublac <small>(19066)</small>
1. Curemonte <small>(19067)</small>
1. Dampniat <small>(19068)</small>
1. Donzenac <small>(19072)</small>
1. Estivals <small>(19077)</small>
1. Estivaux <small>(19078)</small>
1. Jugeals-Nazareth <small>(19093)</small>
1. Juillac <small>(19094)</small>
1. Lagleygeolle <small>(19099)</small>
1. Lanteuil <small>(19105)</small>
1. Larche <small>(19107)</small>
1. Lascaux <small>(19109)</small>
1. Ligneyrac <small>(19115)</small>
1. Liourdres <small>(19116)</small>
1. Lissac-sur-Couze <small>(19117)</small>
1. Lostanges <small>(19119)</small>
1. Louignac <small>(19120)</small>
1. Lubersac <small>(19121)</small>
1. Malemort <small>(19123)</small>
1. Mansac <small>(19124)</small>
1. Marcillac-la-Croze <small>(19126)</small>
1. Ménoire <small>(19132)</small>
1. Meyssac <small>(19138)</small>
1. Montgibaud <small>(19144)</small>
1. Nespouls <small>(19147)</small>
1. Noailhac <small>(19150)</small>
1. Noailles <small>(19151)</small>
1. Nonards <small>(19152)</small>
1. Objat <small>(19153)</small>
1. Palazinges <small>(19156)</small>
1. Perpezac-le-Blanc <small>(19161)</small>
1. Le Pescher <small>(19163)</small>
1. Puy-d'Arnac <small>(19169)</small>
1. Queyssac-les-Vignes <small>(19170)</small>
1. Rosiers-de-Juillac <small>(19177)</small>
1. Sadroc <small>(19178)</small>
1. Saillac <small>(19179)</small>
1. Saint-Aulaire <small>(19182)</small>
1. Saint-Bazile-de-Meyssac <small>(19184)</small>
1. Saint-Bonnet-la-Rivière <small>(19187)</small>
1. Saint-Bonnet-l'Enfantier <small>(19188)</small>
1. Saint-Cernin-de-Larche <small>(19191)</small>
1. Saint-Cyprien <small>(19195)</small>
1. Saint-Cyr-la-Roche <small>(19196)</small>
1. Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries <small>(19198)</small>
1. Sainte-Féréole <small>(19202)</small>
1. Saint-Julien-le-Vendômois <small>(19216)</small>
1. Saint-Julien-Maumont <small>(19217)</small>
1. Saint-Martin-Sepert <small>(19223)</small>
1. Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche <small>(19229)</small>
1. Saint-Pardoux-Corbier <small>(19230)</small>
1. Saint-Pardoux-l'Ortigier <small>(19234)</small>
1. Saint-Robert <small>(19239)</small>
1. Saint-Solve <small>(19242)</small>
1. Saint-Sornin-Lavolps <small>(19243)</small>
1. Saint-Viance <small>(19246)</small>
1. Segonzac <small>(19253)</small>
1. Ségur-le-Château <small>(19254)</small>
1. Sérilhac <small>(19257)</small>
1. Sioniac <small>(19260)</small>
1. Troche <small>(19270)</small>
1. Tudeils <small>(19271)</small>
1. Turenne <small>(19273)</small>
1. Ussac <small>(19274)</small>
1. Varetz <small>(19278)</small>
1. Vars-sur-Roseix <small>(19279)</small>
1. Végennes <small>(19280)</small>
1. Vignols <small>(19286)</small>
1. Voutezac <small>(19288)</small>
1. Yssandon <small>(19289)</small>

The _communes_ in the _arrondissement_ with more inhabitants are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton || Intercommunality|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|19031|Brive-la-Gaillarde|46,961|Brive-la-Gaillarde-1, Brive-la-Gaillarde-2, Brive-la-Gaillarde-3 and Brive-la-Gaillarde-4 || Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive||
|19123|Malemort|7,984|Malemort-sur-Corrèze|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19229|Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche|4,778|Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19274|Ussac|4,060|Malemort-sur-Corrèze|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19005|Allassac|3,882|Allassac|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19153|Objat|3,574|L’Yssandonnais|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19063|Cosnac|2,972|Brive-la-Gaillarde-3|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19072|Donzenac|2,620|Allassac|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19278|Varetz|2,370|Malemort-sur-Corrèze|Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Brive|
|19121|Lubersac|2,233|Uzerche|Le Pays de Lubersac-Pompadour|

## Related pages

- Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
- List of arrondissements of France

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Brive-la-Gaillarde
- **insee**: 191
- **nbcomm**: 96
- **prefecture**: n
- **seat**: Brive-la-Gaillarde
- **area**: 1471.2
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Brive-la-Gaillarde 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine