Arrondissement of Pamiers

The **arrondissement of Pamiers** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Ariège *département*. Its capital is the city of Pamiers.

## History
When the Ariège department was created on 17 February 1800, the *arrondissement* of Pamiers was part of that original department, but it was eliminated in 1926. In 1942, Pamiers was made again an *arrondissement*.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Pamiers is the most northern of the *arrondissements* of the Ariège department. It has the Haute-Garonne department to the west and north, the Aude department to the east, the Arrondissement of Foix to the south and the Saint-Girons *arrondissement* to the southwest.

It is the smallest of the *arrondissements* of the department, with an area of , and the one with more people living in it with 73,702 inhabitants and a density 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 Pamiers, there are 5 cantons whose *communes* are in the *arrondissement*: Arize-Lèze, Mirepoix, Pamiers-1, Pamiers-2 and Portes d'Ariège as can be seen in the following table:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Pamiers has 115 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Aigues-Vives (09002)
# Artigat (09019)
# Artix (09021)
# Arvigna (09022)
# Belloc (09048)
# Benagues (09050)
# Besset (09052)
# Bonnac (09060)
# Brie (09067)
# Bézac (09056)
# Calzan (09072)
# Camarade (09073)
# Camon (09074)
# Campagne-sur-Arize (09075)
# Canté (09076)
# Carla-Bayle (09079)
# Castex (09084)
# Castéras (09083)
# Cazals-des-Baylès (09089)
# Cazaux (09090)
# Coussa (09101)
# Coutens (09102)
# Crampagna (09103)
# Dalou (09104)
# Daumazan-sur-Arize (09105)
# Dun (09107)
# Durfort (09109)
# Esclagne (09115)
# Escosse (09116)
# Esplas (09117)
# Fornex (09123)
# Gabre (09127)
# Gaudiès (09132)
# Gudas (09137)
# Justiniac (09146)
# La Bastide-de-Besplas (09038)
# La Bastide-de-Bousignac (09039)
# La Bastide-de-Lordat (09040)
# La Bastide-sur-l'Hers (09043)
# La Tour-du-Crieu (09312)
# Labatut (09147)
# Lagarde (09150)
# Lanoux (09151)
# Lapenne (09153)
# Laroque-d'Olmes (09157)
# Le Carlaret (09081)
# Le Fossat (09124)
# Le Mas-d'Azil (09181)
# Le Peyrat (09229)
# Le Vernet (09331)
# Les Bordes-sur-Arize (09061)
# Les Issards (09145)
# Les Pujols (09238)
# Lescousse (09163)
# Limbrassac (09169)
# Lissac (09170)
# Loubaut (09172)
# Loubens (09173)
# Ludiès (09175)
# Léran (09161)
# Lézat-sur-Lèze (09167)
# Madière (09177)
# Malegoude (09178)
# Malléon (09179)
# Manses (09180)
# Mazères (09185)
# Mirepoix (09194)
# Monesple (09195)
# Montaut (09199)
# Montbel (09200)
# Montfa (09205)
# Montégut-Plantaurel (09202)
# Moulin-Neuf (09213)
# Méras (09186)
# Pailhès (09224)
# Pamiers (09225)
# Pradettes (09233)
# Rieucros (09244)
# Rieux-de-Pelleport (09245)
# Roumengoux (09251)
# Régat (09243)
# Sabarat (09253)
# Saint-Amadou (09254)
# Saint-Amans (09255)
# Saint-Bauzeil (09256)
# Saint-Félix-de-Rieutord (09258)
# Saint-Félix-de-Tournegat (09259)
# Saint-Jean-du-Falga (09265)
# Saint-Julien-de-Gras-Capou (09266)
# Saint-Martin-d'Oydes (09270)
# Saint-Michel (09271)
# Saint-Quentin-la-Tour (09274)
# Saint-Quirc (09275)
# Saint-Victor-Rouzaud (09276)
# Saint-Ybars (09277)
# Sainte-Foi (09260)
# Sainte-Suzanne (09342)
# Saverdun (09282)
# Sieuras (09294)
# Ségura (09284)
# Tabre (09305)
# Teilhet (09309)
# Thouars-sur-Arize (09310)
# Tourtrol (09314)
# Troye-d'Ariège (09316)
# Trémoulet (09315)
# Unzent (09319)
# Vals (09323)
# Varilhes (09324)
# Ventenac (09327)
# Verniolle (09332)
# Villeneuve-du-Latou (09338)
# Villeneuve-du-Paréage (09339)
# Vira (09340)
# Viviès (09341)

The *communes* with more inhabitants in the *arrondissement* are:

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Ariège department
* Communes of the Ariège department

## References