Arrondissement of Dax

The arrondissement of Dax is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Landes département. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Dax.

History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Dax was one of them in the Landes department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Dax is in the southwest of the Landes department; it has an area of , and a population of 220,656 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north and east by the arrondissement of Mont-de-Marsan, to the south by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and to the west by the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean).

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 Dax, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Côte d'Argent and Pays morcenais tarusate. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

+ Cantons and communes in the arrondissement of Dax INSEECode  Canton  Arrondissements  Total Dax  Mont-de-Marsan4003 Côte d'Argent106164004 Coteau de Chalosse50504005 Dax-110 + part of Dax10 + part of Dax4006 Dax-29 + part of Dax9 + part of Dax4009 Marensin-Sud12124012 Orthe et Arrigans24244013 Pays morcenais tarusate179264014 Pays tyrossais11114015 Seignanx88

Communes
The arrondissement of Dax has 152 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Amou (40002)
 Angoumé (40003)
 Angresse (40004)
 Argelos (40007)
 Arsague (40011)
 Audon (40018)
 Azur (40021)
 Baigts (40023)
 Bassercles (40027)
 Bastennes (40028)
 Bégaar (40031)
 Bélus (40034)
 Bénesse-lès-Dax (40035)
 Bénesse-Maremne (40036)
 Bergouey (40038)
 Beylongue (40040)
 Beyries (40041)
 Biarrotte (40042)
 Biaudos (40044)
 Bonnegarde (40047)
 Brassempouy (40054)
 Cagnotte (40059)
 Candresse (40063)
 Capbreton (40065)
 Carcarès-Sainte-Croix (40066)
 Carcen-Ponson (40067)
 Cassen (40068)
 Castaignos-Souslens (40069)
 Castelnau-Chalosse (40071)
 Castel-Sarrazin (40074)
 Castets (40075)
 Cauneille (40077)
 Caupenne (40078)
 Clermont (40084)
 Dax (40088)
 Doazit (40089)
 Donzacq (40090)
 Estibeaux (40095)
 Gaas (40101)
 Gamarde-les-Bains (40104)
 Garrey (40106)
 Gaujacq (40109)
 Gibret (40112)
 Goos (40113)
 Gourbera (40114)
 Gousse (40115)
 Gouts (40116)
 Habas (40118)
 Hastingues (40120)
 Hauriet (40121)
 Herm (40123)
 Heugas (40125)
 Hinx (40126)
 Josse (40129)
 Labatut (40132)
 Labenne (40133)
 Lahosse (40141)
 Laluque (40142)
 Lamothe (40143)
 Larbey (40144)
 Laurède (40147)
 Léon (40150)
 Lesgor (40151)
 Le Leuy (40153)
 Lévignacq (40154)
 Linxe (40155)
 Lit-et-Mixe (40157)
 Louer (40159)
 Lourquen (40160)
 Magescq (40168)
 Marpaps (40173)
 Maylis (40177)
 Mées (40179)
 Meilhan (40180)
 Messanges (40181)
 Mimbaste (40183)
 Misson (40186)
 Moliets-et-Maa (40187)
 Montfort-en-Chalosse (40194)
 Mouscardès (40199)
 Mugron (40201)
 Narrosse (40202)
 Nassiet (40203)
 Nerbis (40204)
 Nousse (40205)
 Oeyregave (40206)
 Oeyreluy (40207)
 Onard (40208)
 Ondres (40209)
 Orist (40211)
 Orthevielle (40212)
 Orx (40213)
 Ossages (40214)
 Ozourt (40216)
 Pey (40222)
 Peyrehorade (40224)
 Pomarez (40228)
 Pontonx-sur-l'Adour (40230)
 Port-de-Lanne (40231)
 Pouillon (40233)
 Poyanne (40235)
 Poyartin (40236)
 Préchacq-les-Bains (40237)
 Rion-des-Landes (40243)
 Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby (40244)
 Saint-André-de-Seignanx (40248)
 Saint-Aubin (40249)
 Saint-Barthélemy (40251)
 Saint-Cricq-du-Gave (40254)
 Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse (40271)
 Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe (40256)
 Saint-Geours-d'Auribat (40260)
 Saint-Geours-de-Maremne (40261)
 Saint-Jean-de-Lier (40263)
 Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq (40264)
 Saint-Julien-en-Born (40266)
 Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse (40268)
 Saint-Lon-les-Mines (40269)
 Saint-Martin-de-Hinx (40272)
 Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx (40273)
 Saint-Michel-Escalus (40276)
 Saint-Pandelon (40277)
 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (40279)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (40283)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse (40284)
 Saint-Yaguen (40285)
 Saubion (40291)
 Saubrigues (40292)
 Saubusse (40293)
 Saugnac-et-Cambran (40294)
 Seignosse (40296)
 Seyresse (40300)
 Siest (40301)
 Soorts-Hossegor (40304)
 Sorde-l'Abbaye (40306)
 Sort-en-Chalosse (40308)
 Souprosse (40309)
 Soustons (40310)
 Taller (40311)
 Tarnos (40312)
 Tartas (40313)
 Tercis-les-Bains (40314)
 Téthieu (40315)
 Tilh (40316)
 Tosse (40317)
 Toulouzette (40318)
 Uza (40322)
 Vicq-d'Auribat (40324)
 Vielle-Saint-Girons (40326)
 Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains (40328)
 Villenave (40330)
 Yzosse (40334)

The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 40088  Dax  20,485  Dax-1 and Dax-2  Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax 40279  Saint-Paul-lès-Dax  13,189  Dax-1  Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax 40312  Tarnos  12,354  Seignanx  Le Seignanx 40065  Capbreton  8,586  Pays tyrossais  Maremne Adour Côte Sud 40284  Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse  7,717  Pays tyrossais  Maremne Adour Côte Sud 40310  Soustons  7,611  Marensin-Sud  Maremne Adour Côte Sud 40133  Labenne  5,864  Pays tyrossais  Maremne Adour Côte Sud 40273  Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx  5,016  Seignanx  Le Seignanx 40209  Ondres  4,924  Seignanx  Le Seignanx

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Landes department
 Communes of the Landes department

References

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