Isère

Isère is a département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France named after the Isère river.

History
Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Moirans as its capital. It was formed from part of the former province of Dauphiné.

It was divided in four districts: Grenoble, Saint-Marcellin, La Tour-du-Pin and Vienne. The capital was transfered in 1790 from Moirans to Grenoble.

In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the four districts were changed into four arrondissements: Grenoble, Saint-Marcellin, La Tour-du-Pin and Vienne.

On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Saint-Marcellin was eliminated.

Geography
Isère is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has an area of .

The department borders with 7 departments in 2 regions:

 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
 Ain (north)
 Savoie (east)
 Drôme (south)
 Ardèche (west)
 Loire (west)
 Rhône (northwest)
 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
 Hautes-Alpes (southeast)

The highest mountain in the department is  Pic Lory (); it is  high.

The main rivers that flow through the department are the Rhône and its tributaries Isère and Bourbre.

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Grenoble is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype Cfb.

Administration
Isère is managed by the Departmental Council of Isère in Grenoble. The department is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Administrative divisions
There are 4 arrondissements (districts), 17 cantons and 281 communes (municipalities) in Isère.

+ Arrondissements of the Isère INSEEcode  Arrondissement  Capital  Population(2014)  Area(km²)  Density(Inh./km²)  Communes 381  Grenoble  Grenoble  758,956  4,714.7    267 382  La Tour-du-Pin  La Tour-du-Pin  270,681  1,489.7    137 383  Vienne  Vienne  213,960  1,227.1    117

The following is a list of the 29 cantons of the Isère department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:

 Bièvre (3801)
 Bourgoin-Jallieu (3802)
 Chartreuse-Guiers (3803)
 Charvieu-Chavagneux (3804)
 Échirolles (3805)
 Fontaine-Seyssinet (3806)
 Fontaine-Vercors (3807)
 Le Grand-Lemps (3808)
 Grenoble-1 (3809)
 Grenoble-2 (3810)
 Grenoble-3 (3811)
 Grenoble-4 (3812)
 Le Haut-Grésivaudan (3813)
 L’Isle-d'Abeau (3814)
 Matheysine-Trièves (3815)
 Meylan (3816)
 Morestel (3817)
 Le Moyen Grésivaudan (3818)
 Oisans-Romanche (3819)
 Le Pont-de-Claix (3820)
 Roussillon (3821)
 Saint-Martin-d'Hères (3822)
 Le Sud Grésivaudan (3823)
 La Tour-du-Pin (3824)
 Tullins (3825)
 La Verpillière (3826)
 Vienne-1 (3827)
 Vienne-2 (3828)
 Voiron (3829) 

Demographics
The inhabitants of Isère are known, in French, as Isérois (women: Iséroises).

Isère had a population, in 2014, of 1,243,597, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The arrondissement of Grenoble, with 758,956 inhabitants, is the arrondissement with more inhabitants.

Evolution of the population in Isère

The communes in the department with more inhabitants are:

 City  Population  (2014) Arrondissement Grenoble  160,779  Grenoble Saint-Martin-d'Hères  38,100  Grenoble Échirolles  35,875  Grenoble Vienne  29,096  Vienne Bourgoin-Jallieu  27,366  La Tour-du-Pin Fontaine  22,366  Grenoble Voiron  20,162  Grenoble Villefontaine  18,463  La Tour-du-Pin Meylan  17,323  Grenoble L'Isle-d'Abeau  16,040  La Tour-du-Pin

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Isère department
 Communes of the Isère department

References

Other websites

 Departmental Council website 
 Prefecture website