Arrondissement of Brignoles

The arrondissement of Brignoles is an arrondissement of France, in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Brignoles.

History
When the Var department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Brignoles was part of that original department.

The arrondissement was eliminated in 1926 but it was made again an arrondissement in 1974.

Geography
The arrondissement of Brignoles is in the northwest of the Var department. It is bordered to the north by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, to the east by the Draguignan arrondissement, to the south by the Toulon arrondissement and to the west by the Bouches-du-Rhône department.

The arrondissement of Brignoles is the second largest arrondissement of the department in area, , but the one with fewest people living in it (150,974 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.

In the arrondissement of Brignoles there are 6 cantons but only 2 of them have all their communes in the arrondissement:

 Brignoles (8301)
 Flayosc (8304) (partly)
 Garéoult (8307) (partly)
 Le Luc (8309) (partly)
 Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (8312) (partly)
 Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (8314)

Communes
The arrondissement of Brignoles has 67 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Aiguines (83002)
 Artignosc-sur-Verdon (83005)
 Artigues (83006)
 Aups (83007)
 Barjols (83012)
 Baudinard-sur-Verdon (83014)
 Bauduen (83015)
 Besse-sur-Issole (83018)
 Bras (83021)
 Brignoles (83023)
 Brue-Auriac (83025)
 Cabasse (83026)
 Camps-la-Source (83030)
 Le Cannet-des-Maures (83031)
 Carcès (83032)
 Carnoules (83033)
 La Celle (83037)
 Châteauvert (83039)
 Correns (83045)
 Cotignac (83046)
 Entrecasteaux (83051)
 Esparron (83052)
 Flassans-sur-Issole (83057)
 Forcalqueiret (83059)
 Fox-Amphoux (83060)
 Garéoult (83064)
 Ginasservis (83066)
 Gonfaron (83067)
 Le Luc (83073)
 Les Mayons (83075)
 Mazaugues (83076)
 Méounes-lès-Montrieux (83077)
 Moissac-Bellevue (83078)
 Montfort-sur-Argens (83083)
 Montmeyan (83084)
 Nans-les-Pins (83087)
 Néoules (83088)
 Ollières (83089)
 Pignans (83092)
 Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (83093)
 Pontevès (83095)
 Pourcieux (83096)
 Pourrières (83097)
 Puget-Ville (83100)
 Régusse (83102)
 Rians (83104)
 Rocbaron (83106)
 La Roquebrussanne (83108)
 Rougiers (83110)
 Sainte-Anastasie-sur-Issole (83111)
 Saint-Julien (83113)
 Saint-Martin-de-Pallières (83114)
 Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (83116)
 Saint-Zacharie (83120)
 Les Salles-sur-Verdon (83122)
 Seillons-Source-d'Argens (83125)
 Tavernes (83135)
 Le Thoronet (83136)
 Tourtour (83139)
 Tourves (83140)
 Le Val (83143)
 Varages (83145)
 La Verdière (83146)
 Vérignon (83147)
 Villecroze (83149)
 Vinon-sur-Verdon (83150)
 Vins-sur-Caramy (83151)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 83023  Brignoles  16,690  Brignoles  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83116  Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume  15,753  Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83064  Garéoult  5,403  Garéoult  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83120  Saint-Zacharie  5,245  Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer  Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence 83140  Tourves  4,964  Brignoles  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83097  Pourrières  4,877  Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83106  Rocbaron  4,718  Garéoult  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte 83067  Gonfaron  4,302  Le Luc  Cœur du Var 83104  Rians  4,284  Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume  Provence Verdon 83143  Le Val  4,242  Brignoles  Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Var department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Brignoles