Arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence

The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is an arrondissement of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Aix-en-Provence.

History
When the Bouches-du-Rhône department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is in the northeast of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. It is bordered to the north by the Vaucluse department, to the east by the Var department, to the southeast by the Marseille arrondissement, to the southwest by the Istres arrondissement and to the northwest by the Arles arrondissement.

The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is the second largest arrondissement of the department both in area, , and population (429,436 inhabitants).

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.

There are 9 cantons in the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence and 5 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement:

 Aix-en-Provence-1 (1301)
 Aix-en-Provence-2 (1302)
 Berre-l'Étang (1306) (partly)
 Gardanne (1309)
 Pélissanne (1325) (partly)
 Salon-de-Provence-1 (1326) (partly)
 Salon-de-Provence-2 (1327) (partly)
 Trets (1328)
 Vitrolles (1329) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence has 44 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Aix-en-Provence (13001)
 Aurons (13008)
 Beaurecueil (13012)
 Bouc-Bel-Air (13015)
 Cabriès (13019)
 Charleval (13024)
 Châteauneuf-le-Rouge (13025)
 Cornillon-Confoux (13029)
 Coudoux (13118)
 Fuveau (13040)
 Gardanne (13041)
 Grans (13044)
 Jouques (13048)
 La Barben (13009)
 La Fare-les-Oliviers (13037)
 La Roque-d'Anthéron (13084)
 Lambesc (13050)
 Lançon-Provence (13051)
 Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (13080)
 Le Tholonet (13109)
 Les Pennes-Mirabeau (13071)
 Meyrargues (13059)
 Meyreuil (13060)
 Mimet (13062)
 Peynier (13072)
 Peyrolles-en-Provence (13074)
 Puyloubier (13079)
 Pélissanne (13069)
 Rognes (13082)
 Rousset (13087)
 Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon (13090)
 Saint-Cannat (13091)
 Saint-Estève-Janson (13093)
 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde (13095)
 Saint-Paul-lès-Durance (13099)
 Salon-de-Provence (13103)
 Septèmes-les-Vallons (13106)
 Simiane-Collongue (13107)
 Trets (13110)
 Vauvenargues (13111)
 Velaux (13112)
 Venelles (13113)
 Ventabren (13114)
 Éguilles (13032)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 13001  Aix-en-Provence  142,149  Aix-en-Provence-1 and Aix-en-Provence-2  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13103  Salon-de-Provence  44,187  Salon-de-Provence-1 and Salon-de-Provence-2  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13071  Les Pennes-Mirabeau  20,492  Gardanne  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13041  Gardanne  19,910  Gardanne  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13015  Bouc-Bel-Air  14,097  Vitrolles  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13110  Trets  10,896  Trets  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13106  Septèmes-les-Vallons  10,794  Gardanne  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13069  Pélissanne  9,909  Pélissanne  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13040  Fuveau  9,638  Trets  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13019  Cabriès  9,492  Vitrolles  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 13050  Lambesc  9,459  Pélissanne  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Bouches-du-Rhône department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Aix-en-Provence