Tarn-et-Garonne

**Tarn-et-Garonne** is a department in the southwest of France, in the Occitanie region. It is named after the Garonne river and its tributary Tarn. Its prefecture and largest city is Montauban.

## History
Tarn-et-Garonne is not one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created on 4 November 1808 during the First French Empire by Napoleon I.

It was formed out of territories belonging to neighboring areas. More than half of the territory was taken from the Lot (including Montauban and Moissac), over one-third was taken from Haute-Garonne (including Castelsarrasin), and the rest from the departments of Lot-et-Garonne, Gers, and Aveyron.

The new department had three *arrondissements*: Montauban, Castelsarrasin and Moissac. The prefecture was Montauban. On 10 September 1926, the *arrondissement* of Moissac was eliminated.

## Geography
Tarn-et-Garonne is part of the Occitanie region. It has an area of . in the commune of Castanet.

Even if Tarn-et-Garonne is one of the smallest departments of Metropolitan France, there is a great diversity of landscapes in the department; for example, the plains between the Tarn and Garonne rivers and in the valley of the Aveyron river, the hills of the Lomagne region (southwest of the department) and in the north, including the *Causse* (a limestone plateau) of the northeast.

The main rivers in the department are the Garonne and its tributaries Tarn and Aveyron.

### Climate
The climate of Montauban is an oceanic climate with template summers, **Cfb** (Marine West Coast Climate) in the Köppen climate classification.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Montauban is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Montauban is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

## Administration
Tarn-et-Garonne is managed by the *Departamental Council of Tarn-et-Garonne* in Montauban. The department is part of the region of Occitanie.

### Administrative divisions
There are 2 *arrondissements* (districts), 15 *cantons* and 195 *communes* (municipalities) in Tarn-et-Garonne.

The following is a list of the 15 cantons of the **Tarn-et-Garonne** department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:

# Aveyron-Lère (8201)
# Beaumont-de-Lomagne (8202)
# Castelsarrasin (8203)
# Garonne-Lomagne-Brulhois (8204)
# Moissac (8205)
# Montauban-1 (8206)
# Montauban-2 (8207)
# Montauban-3 (8208)
# Montech (8209)
# Pays de Serres Sud-Quercy (8210)
# Quercy-Aveyron (8211)
# Quercy-Rouergue (8212)
# Tarn-Tescou-Quercy vert (8213)
# Valence (8214)
# Verdun-sur-Garonne (8215)

## Demographics
The inhabitants of Tarn-et-Garonne are known, in French, as *Tarn-et-Garonnais* (women: *Tarn-et-Garonnaises*).

, Tarn-et-Garonne had a population of 252,578, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The *arrondissement* of Montauban, with 175,756 inhabitants, is the *arrondissement* with more inhabitants. The *arrondissement* of Castelsarrasin has 76,822 inhabitants.

The city with more people living in it is the capital, Montauban (58,826). The subprefecture of Castelsarrasin has 13,765 inhabitants.

**Evolution of the population in Tarn-et-Garonne**

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The cities with more than 5,000 inhabitants in the department are:

## Gallery

File:Auvillar garonne.JPG|The Garonne river seen from Auvillar
File:Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Montauban au coucher du soleil.JPG|Montauban Cathedral at sunset
File:PortJYC.jpg|Port Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Castelsarrasin
File:FR-82-Montauban05.JPG|Montauban - *Place National*

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
* Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department

## References
## Other websites
* Departamental Council website 
* Prefecture website 
* Arkheia History Review of Tarn-et-Garonne