Arrondissement of Agen

The arrondissement of Agen is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Agen.

History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Agen was one of them in the Lot-et-Garonne department.

Geography
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement Villeneuve-sur-Lot, to the east by the Tarn-et-Garonne department, to the south by the Gers department, to the west by the arrondissement Nérac and to the northwest by the arrondissement Marmande.

It is in the southeast of the department and it is the smallest of the arrondissements of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of , and a population of 120,235 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².

Composition
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 Agen, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Le Confluent and Le Pays de Serres. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

+ Cantons and communes in the arrondissement of Agen INSEECode  Canton  Arrondissements  Total Agen  Marmande  Villeneuve-sur-Lot  Nérac4701 Agen-13 + part of Agen3 + part of Agen4702 Agen-22 + part of Agen2 + part of Agen4703 Agen-3 part of Agen part of Agen4704 Agen-41 + part of Agen1 + part of Agen4706 Le Confluent191204715 L'Ouest agenais11114716 Le Pays de Serres158234717 Le Sud-Est agenais1919

Communes
The arrondissement of Agen has 71 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Agen (47001)
 Aiguillon (47004)
 Astaffort (47015)
 Aubiac (47016)
 Bajamont (47019)
 Bazens (47022)
 Beauville (47025)
 Blaymont (47030)
 Bon-Encontre (47032)
 Bourran (47038)
 Boé (47031)
 Brax (47040)
 Cassignas (47050)
 Castelculier (47051)
 Castella (47053)
 Caudecoste (47060)
 Cauzac (47062)
 Clermont-Dessous (47066)
 Clermont-Soubiran (47067)
 Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (47069)
 Cours (47073)
 Cuq (47076)
 Dondas (47082)
 Engayrac (47087)
 Estillac (47091)
 Fals (47092)
 Foulayronnes (47100)
 Frégimont (47104)
 Galapian (47107)
 Granges-sur-Lot (47111)
 Grayssas (47113)
 La Croix-Blanche (47075)
 La Sauvetat-de-Savères (47289)
 Lacépède (47125)
 Lafox (47128)
 Lagarrigue (47129)
 Laplume (47137)
 Laroque-Timbaut (47138)
 Laugnac (47140)
 Layrac (47145)
 Le Passage (47201)
 Lusignan-Petit (47154)
 Madaillan (47155)
 Marmont-Pachas (47158)
 Moirax (47169)
 Monbalen (47171)
 Montpezat (47190)
 Nicole (47196)
 Pont-du-Casse (47209)
 Port-Sainte-Marie (47210)
 Prayssas (47213)
 Puymirol (47217)
 Roquefort (47225)
 Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm (47234)
 Saint-Hilaire-de-Lusignan (47246)
 Saint-Jean-de-Thurac (47248)
 Saint-Martin-de-Beauville (47255)
 Saint-Maurin (47260)
 Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Balerme (47262)
 Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac (47269)
 Saint-Robert (47273)
 Saint-Romain-le-Noble (47274)
 Saint-Salvy (47275)
 Saint-Sardos (47276)
 Saint-Sixte (47279)
 Saint-Urcisse (47281)
 Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois (47238)
 Sauvagnas (47288)
 Sauveterre-Saint-Denis (47293)
 Sérignac-sur-Garonne (47300)
 Tayrac (47305)

The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 47001  Agen  34,126  Agen-1, Agen-2Agen-3, Agen-4  Agglomération d'Agen 47201  Le Passage  9,546  Agen-4  Agglomération d'Agen 47032  Bon-Encontre  6,166  Agen-2  Agglomération d'Agen 47031  Boé  5,552  Agen-2  Agglomération d'Agen 47100  Foulayronnes  5,262  Agen-1  Agglomération d'Agen 47004  Aiguillon  4,324  Le Confluent  Le Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas 47209  Pont-du-Casse  4,208  Agen-1  Agglomération d'Agen 47145  Layrac  3,520  Le Sud-Est agenais  Agglomération d'Agen 47069  Colayrac-Saint-Cirq  2,902  L'Ouest agenais  Agglomération d'Agen

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department
 Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

References

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