Isère

**Isère** is a département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France named after the Isère river.

## History
Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Moirans as its capital. It was formed from part of the former province of *Dauphiné*.

It was divided in four districts: Grenoble, Saint-Marcellin, La Tour-du-Pin and Vienne. The capital was transfered in 1790 from Moirans to Grenoble.

In 1800, with the creation of the *arrondissements* in France, the four districts were changed into four *arrondissements*: Grenoble, Saint-Marcellin, La Tour-du-Pin and Vienne.

The main rivers that flow through the department are the Rhône and its tributaries Isère and Bourbre.

### Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Grenoble is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype **Cfb**.

## Administration
Isère is managed by the *Departmental Council of Isère* in Grenoble. The department is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

### Administrative divisions
There are 4 *arrondissements* (districts), 17 *cantons* and 281 *communes* (municipalities) in Isère.

The following is a list of the 29 cantons of the Isère department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:

# Bièvre (3801)
# Bourgoin-Jallieu (3802)
# Chartreuse-Guiers (3803)
# Charvieu-Chavagneux (3804)
# Échirolles (3805)
# Fontaine-Seyssinet (3806)
# Fontaine-Vercors (3807)
# Le Grand-Lemps (3808)
# Grenoble-1 (3809)
# Grenoble-2 (3810)
# Grenoble-3 (3811)
# Grenoble-4 (3812)
# Le Haut-Grésivaudan (3813)
# L’Isle-d'Abeau (3814)
# Matheysine-Trièves (3815)
# Meylan (3816)
# Morestel (3817)
# Le Moyen Grésivaudan (3818)
# Oisans-Romanche (3819)
# Le Pont-de-Claix (3820)
# Roussillon (3821)
# Saint-Martin-d'Hères (3822)
# Le Sud Grésivaudan (3823)
# La Tour-du-Pin (3824)
# Tullins (3825)
# La Verpillière (3826)
# Vienne-1 (3827)
# Vienne-2 (3828)
# Voiron (3829) 

## Demographics
The inhabitants of Isère are known, in French, as *Isérois* (women: *Iséroises*).

Isère had a population, in 2014, of 1,243,597, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The *arrondissement* of Grenoble, with 758,956 inhabitants, is the *arrondissement* with more inhabitants.

**Evolution of the population in Isère**

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

## Gallery

File:Fontaine trois ordres - Grenoble.JPG|Fountain in Grenoble.
File:Place Saint-André-Grenoble.jpg|*Saint-André* square, Grenoble.
File:Cathédrale Tour-du-Pin.JPG|Cathedral of Tour-du-Pin.
File:Vienne vue aerienne.JPG|Vienne and the Rhône river.
File:Gières, la Plaine des Sports et l'Isère.jpg|The Isère in Gières.

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

## References
## Other websites
* Departmental Council website 
* Prefecture website