Arrondissement of Pamiers

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

## History

When the Ariège department was created on 17 February 1800, the _arrondissement_ of Pamiers was part of that original department, but it was eliminated in 1926. In 1942, Pamiers was made again an _arrondissement_.

## Geography

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

It is the smallest of the _arrondissements_ of the department, with an area of , and the one with more people living in it with 73,702 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 Pamiers, there are 5 cantons whose _communes_ are in the _arrondissement_: Arize-Lèze, Mirepoix, Pamiers-1, Pamiers-2 and Portes d'Ariège as can be seen in the following table:

|No.|Canton|Foix|Pamiers|Saint-Girons|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Arize-Lèze||27||27|
|2|Mirepoix||35||35|
|3|Pamiers-1||14 + part of Pamiers||14 + part of Pamiers|
|4|Pamiers-2||7 + part of Pamiers||7 + part of Pamiers|
|5|Portes d'Ariège||16||16|
|6|Val d'Ariège|13|15||28|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Pamiers has 115 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes):

1. Aigues-Vives <small>(09002)</small>
1. Artigat <small>(09019)</small>
1. Artix <small>(09021)</small>
1. Arvigna <small>(09022)</small>
1. Belloc <small>(09048)</small>
1. Benagues <small>(09050)</small>
1. Besset <small>(09052)</small>
1. Bonnac <small>(09060)</small>
1. Brie <small>(09067)</small>
1. Bézac <small>(09056)</small>
1. Calzan <small>(09072)</small>
1. Camarade <small>(09073)</small>
1. Camon <small>(09074)</small>
1. Campagne-sur-Arize <small>(09075)</small>
1. Canté <small>(09076)</small>
1. Carla-Bayle <small>(09079)</small>
1. Castex <small>(09084)</small>
1. Castéras <small>(09083)</small>
1. Cazals-des-Baylès <small>(09089)</small>
1. Cazaux <small>(09090)</small>
1. Coussa <small>(09101)</small>
1. Coutens <small>(09102)</small>
1. Crampagna <small>(09103)</small>
1. Dalou <small>(09104)</small>
1. Daumazan-sur-Arize <small>(09105)</small>
1. Dun <small>(09107)</small>
1. Durfort <small>(09109)</small>
1. Esclagne <small>(09115)</small>
1. Escosse <small>(09116)</small>
1. Esplas <small>(09117)</small>
1. Fornex <small>(09123)</small>
1. Gabre <small>(09127)</small>
1. Gaudiès <small>(09132)</small>
1. Gudas <small>(09137)</small>
1. Justiniac <small>(09146)</small>
1. La Bastide-de-Besplas <small>(09038)</small>
1. La Bastide-de-Bousignac <small>(09039)</small>
1. La Bastide-de-Lordat <small>(09040)</small>
1. La Bastide-sur-l'Hers <small>(09043)</small>
1. La Tour-du-Crieu <small>(09312)</small>
1. Labatut <small>(09147)</small>
1. Lagarde <small>(09150)</small>
1. Lanoux <small>(09151)</small>
1. Lapenne <small>(09153)</small>
1. Laroque-d'Olmes <small>(09157)</small>
1. Le Carlaret <small>(09081)</small>
1. Le Fossat <small>(09124)</small>
1. Le Mas-d'Azil <small>(09181)</small>
1. Le Peyrat <small>(09229)</small>
1. Le Vernet <small>(09331)</small>
1. Les Bordes-sur-Arize <small>(09061)</small>
1. Les Issards <small>(09145)</small>
1. Les Pujols <small>(09238)</small>
1. Lescousse <small>(09163)</small>
1. Limbrassac <small>(09169)</small>
1. Lissac <small>(09170)</small>
1. Loubaut <small>(09172)</small>
1. Loubens <small>(09173)</small>
1. Ludiès <small>(09175)</small>
1. Léran <small>(09161)</small>
1. Lézat-sur-Lèze <small>(09167)</small>
1. Madière <small>(09177)</small>
1. Malegoude <small>(09178)</small>
1. Malléon <small>(09179)</small>
1. Manses <small>(09180)</small>
1. Mazères <small>(09185)</small>
1. Mirepoix <small>(09194)</small>
1. Monesple <small>(09195)</small>
1. Montaut <small>(09199)</small>
1. Montbel <small>(09200)</small>
1. Montfa <small>(09205)</small>
1. Montégut-Plantaurel <small>(09202)</small>
1. Moulin-Neuf <small>(09213)</small>
1. Méras <small>(09186)</small>
1. Pailhès <small>(09224)</small>
1. Pamiers <small>(09225)</small>
1. Pradettes <small>(09233)</small>
1. Rieucros <small>(09244)</small>
1. Rieux-de-Pelleport <small>(09245)</small>
1. Roumengoux <small>(09251)</small>
1. Régat <small>(09243)</small>
1. Sabarat <small>(09253)</small>
1. Saint-Amadou <small>(09254)</small>
1. Saint-Amans <small>(09255)</small>
1. Saint-Bauzeil <small>(09256)</small>
1. Saint-Félix-de-Rieutord <small>(09258)</small>
1. Saint-Félix-de-Tournegat <small>(09259)</small>
1. Saint-Jean-du-Falga <small>(09265)</small>
1. Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou <small>(09266)</small>
1. Saint-Martin-d'Oydes <small>(09270)</small>
1. Saint-Michel <small>(09271)</small>
1. Saint-Quentin-la-Tour <small>(09274)</small>
1. Saint-Quirc <small>(09275)</small>
1. Saint-Victor-Rouzaud <small>(09276)</small>
1. Saint-Ybars <small>(09277)</small>
1. Sainte-Foi <small>(09260)</small>
1. Sainte-Suzanne <small>(09342)</small>
1. Saverdun <small>(09282)</small>
1. Sieuras <small>(09294)</small>
1. Ségura <small>(09284)</small>
1. Tabre <small>(09305)</small>
1. Teilhet <small>(09309)</small>
1. Thouars-sur-Arize <small>(09310)</small>
1. Tourtrol <small>(09314)</small>
1. Troye-d'Ariège <small>(09316)</small>
1. Trémoulet <small>(09315)</small>
1. Unzent <small>(09319)</small>
1. Vals <small>(09323)</small>
1. Varilhes <small>(09324)</small>
1. Ventenac <small>(09327)</small>
1. Verniolle <small>(09332)</small>
1. Villeneuve-du-Latou <small>(09338)</small>
1. Villeneuve-du-Paréage <small>(09339)</small>
1. Vira <small>(09340)</small>
1. Viviès <small>(09341)</small>

The _communes_ with more inhabitants in the _arrondissement_ are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|09225|Pamiers|15,518|Pamiers-1 and Pamiers-2|
|09282|Saverdun|4,658|Portes d'Ariège|
|09185|Mazères|3,810|Portes d'Ariège|
|09324|Varilhes|3,148|Val d'Ariège|
|09194|Mirepoix|3,322|Mirepoix|
|09312|La Tour-du-Crieu|3,071|Pamiers-2|

## Related pages

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

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Pamiers
- **insee**: 092
- **nbcomm**: 91
- **prefecture**: n
- **seat**: Pamiers
- **area**: 1052.2
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Pamiers 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Occitanie