Arrondissement of Saint-Girons

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

## History
When the Ariège department was created on 17 February 1800, the *arrondissement* of Saint-Girons was part of that original department.

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

It is the second in area, after Foix, of the *arrondissements* of the department, with an area of , but it is the one with fewest people living in it with 27,399 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 Saint-Girons, there are 2 cantons whose *communes* are in the *arrondissement*: the Couserans Ouest and the  Portes du Couserans (28 *communes*) as can be seen in the following table:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Saint-Girons has 82 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Aleu (09005)
# Alos (09008)
# Antras (09011)
# Argein (09014)
# Arrien-en-Bethmale (09017)
# Arrout (09018)
# Aucazein (09025)
# Audressein (09026)
# Augirein (09027)
# Aulus-les-Bains (09029)
# Bagert (09033)
# Balacet (09034)
# Balaguères (09035)
# Barjac (09037)
# Betchat (09054)
# Bethmale (09055)
# Biert (09057)
# Bonac-Irazein (09059)
# Boussenac (09065)
# Buzan (09069)
# Bédeille (09046)
# Castelnau-Durban (09082)
# Castillon-en-Couserans (09085)
# Caumont (09086)
# Cazavet (09091)
# Cescau (09095)
# Clermont (09097)
# Contrazy (09098)
# Couflens (09100)
# Cérizols (09094)
# Encourtiech (09110)
# Engomer (09111)
# Ercé (09113)
# Erp (09114)
# Esplas-de-Sérou (09118)
# Eycheil (09119)
# Fabas (09120)
# Gajan (09128)
# Galey (09129)
# Illartein (09141)
# La Bastide-du-Salat (09041)
# Lacave (09148)
# Lacourt (09149)
# Lasserre (09158)
# Le Port (09231)
# Les Bordes-sur-Lez (09062)
# Lescure (09164)
# Lorp-Sentaraille (09289)
# Massat (09182)
# Mauvezin-de-Prat (09183)
# Mauvezin-de-Sainte-Croix (09184)
# Mercenac (09187)
# Montardit (09198)
# Montesquieu-Avantès (09204)
# Montgauch (09208)
# Montjoie-en-Couserans (09209)
# Montégut-en-Couserans (09201)
# Moulis (09214)
# Mérigon (09190)
# Orgibet (09219)
# Oust (09223)
# Prat-Bonrepaux (09235)
# Rimont (09246)
# Rivèrenert (09247)
# Saint-Girons (09261)
# Saint-Jean-du-Castillonnais (09263)
# Saint-Lary (09267)
# Saint-Lizier (09268)
# Sainte-Croix-Volvestre (09257)
# Salsein (09279)
# Seix (09285)
# Sentein (09290)
# Sentenac-d'Oust (09291)
# Sor (09297)
# Soueix-Rogalle (09299)
# Soulan (09301)
# Taurignan-Castet (09307)
# Taurignan-Vieux (09308)
# Tourtouse (09313)
# Uchentein (09317)
# Ustou (09322)
# Villeneuve (09335)

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

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

## References