Arrondissement of Saint-Girons

The **arrondissement of Saint-Girons** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Ariège _département_. Its capital is the city of Saint-Girons.

## History

When the Ariège department was created on 17 February 1800, the _arrondissement_ of Saint-Girons was part of that original department.

## Geography

The _arrondissement_ of Saint-Girons is the most western of the _arrondissements_ of the Ariège department. It has the Haute-Garonne department to the west and north, the Pamiers _arrondissement_ to the northeast, the Arrondissement of Foix to the east and Spain to the south.

It is the second in area, after Foix, of the _arrondissements_ of the department, with an area of , but it is the one with fewest people living in it with 27,399 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

### 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 Saint-Girons, there are 2 cantons whose _communes_ are in the _arrondissement_: the Couserans Ouest and the  Portes du Couserans (28 _communes_) as can be seen in the following table:
|No.|Canton|Foix|Pamiers|Saint-Girons|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Couserans Est|13||24|37|
|2|Couserans Ouest|||30|30|
|3|Portes du Couserans|||28|28|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Saint-Girons has 82 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes):

1. Aleu <small>(09005)</small>
1. Alos <small>(09008)</small>
1. Antras <small>(09011)</small>
1. Argein <small>(09014)</small>
1. Arrien-en-Bethmale <small>(09017)</small>
1. Arrout <small>(09018)</small>
1. Aucazein <small>(09025)</small>
1. Audressein <small>(09026)</small>
1. Augirein <small>(09027)</small>
1. Aulus-les-Bains <small>(09029)</small>
1. Bagert <small>(09033)</small>
1. Balacet <small>(09034)</small>
1. Balaguères <small>(09035)</small>
1. Barjac <small>(09037)</small>
1. Betchat <small>(09054)</small>
1. Bethmale <small>(09055)</small>
1. Biert <small>(09057)</small>
1. Bonac-Irazein <small>(09059)</small>
1. Boussenac <small>(09065)</small>
1. Buzan <small>(09069)</small>
1. Bédeille <small>(09046)</small>
1. Castelnau-Durban <small>(09082)</small>
1. Castillon-en-Couserans <small>(09085)</small>
1. Caumont <small>(09086)</small>
1. Cazavet <small>(09091)</small>
1. Cescau <small>(09095)</small>
1. Clermont <small>(09097)</small>
1. Contrazy <small>(09098)</small>
1. Couflens <small>(09100)</small>
1. Cérizols <small>(09094)</small>
1. Encourtiech <small>(09110)</small>
1. Engomer <small>(09111)</small>
1. Ercé <small>(09113)</small>
1. Erp <small>(09114)</small>
1. Esplas-de-Sérou <small>(09118)</small>
1. Eycheil <small>(09119)</small>
1. Fabas <small>(09120)</small>
1. Gajan <small>(09128)</small>
1. Galey <small>(09129)</small>
1. Illartein <small>(09141)</small>
1. La Bastide-du-Salat <small>(09041)</small>
1. Lacave <small>(09148)</small>
1. Lacourt <small>(09149)</small>
1. Lasserre <small>(09158)</small>
1. Le Port <small>(09231)</small>
1. Les Bordes-sur-Lez <small>(09062)</small>
1. Lescure <small>(09164)</small>
1. Lorp-Sentaraille <small>(09289)</small>
1. Massat <small>(09182)</small>
1. Mauvezin-de-Prat <small>(09183)</small>
1. Mauvezin-de-Sainte-Croix <small>(09184)</small>
1. Mercenac <small>(09187)</small>
1. Montardit <small>(09198)</small>
1. Montesquieu-Avantès <small>(09204)</small>
1. Montgauch <small>(09208)</small>
1. Montjoie-en-Couserans <small>(09209)</small>
1. Montégut-en-Couserans <small>(09201)</small>
1. Moulis <small>(09214)</small>
1. Mérigon <small>(09190)</small>
1. Orgibet <small>(09219)</small>
1. Oust <small>(09223)</small>
1. Prat-Bonrepaux <small>(09235)</small>
1. Rimont <small>(09246)</small>
1. Rivèrenert <small>(09247)</small>
1. Saint-Girons <small>(09261)</small>
1. Saint-Jean-du-Castillonnais <small>(09263)</small>
1. Saint-Lary <small>(09267)</small>
1. Saint-Lizier <small>(09268)</small>
1. Sainte-Croix-Volvestre <small>(09257)</small>
1. Salsein <small>(09279)</small>
1. Seix <small>(09285)</small>
1. Sentein <small>(09290)</small>
1. Sentenac-d'Oust <small>(09291)</small>
1. Sor <small>(09297)</small>
1. Soueix-Rogalle <small>(09299)</small>
1. Soulan <small>(09301)</small>
1. Taurignan-Castet <small>(09307)</small>
1. Taurignan-Vieux <small>(09308)</small>
1. Tourtouse <small>(09313)</small>
1. Uchentein <small>(09317)</small>
1. Ustou <small>(09322)</small>
1. Villeneuve <small>(09335)</small>

The _communes_ with more inhabitants in the _arrondissement_ are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|09261|Saint-Girons|6,284|Couserans Ouest|
|09268|Saint-Lizier|1,417|Portes du Couserans|
|09289|Lorp-Sentaraille|1,380|Portes du Couserans|
|09209|Montjoie-en-Couserans|1,072|Portes du Couserans|

## Related pages

- Arrondissements of the Ariège department
- Communes of the Ariège department

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Saint-Girons
- **insee**: 093
- **nbcomm**: 121
- **prefecture**: n
- **seat**: Saint-Girons, Ariège, Saint-Girons
- **pop**: 40557
- **year**: 2016
- **area**: 2019.3
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Saint-Girons 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Occitanie