Corrèze

**Corrèze** () is a department in south-western France, named after the Corrèze river. It is in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and its capital is the city of Tulle.

## History
Corrèze is one of the 83 French departments made during the French revolution, on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the old province of Limousin (the *Bas Limousin*).

The new department had four districts: Uzerche, Ussel, Tulle and Brive. The capital (now prefecture) was Tulle.

In 1800, with the creation of the *arrondissements* in France, the four districts were changed into three *arrondissements*: Tulle, Brive and Ussel. the lowest point is in the valley of the Vézère river and is  high.

The main rivers in the department are the Dordogne, the Vézère and the Corrèze that gives its name to the deparment.

### Climate
The climate in Brive-la-Gaillarde is an oceanic climate with template summers, **Cfb** (Marine West Coast Climate) in the Köppen climate classification.

The annual rainfall in Brive-la-Gaillarde 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde 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
The department is managed by the *Departmental Council of the Corrèze* in Tulle. Corrèze is part of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

### Administrative divisions
There are 3 *arrondissements* (districts), 19 *cantons* and 283 *communes* (municipalities) in Corrèze.

The following is a list of the 19 cantons of the **Corrèze** department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:

# Allassac (1901)
# Argentat (1902)
# Brive-la-Gaillarde-1 (1903)
# Brive-la-Gaillarde-2 (1904)
# Brive-la-Gaillarde-3 (1905)
# Brive-la-Gaillarde-4 (1906)
# Égletons (1907)
# Haute-Dordogne (1908)
# Malemort-sur-Corrèze (1909)
# Midi Corrézien (1910)
# Naves (1911)
# Plateau de Millevaches (1912)
# Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche (1913)
# Sainte-Fortunade (1914)
# Seilhac-Monédières (1915)
# Tulle (1916)
# Ussel (1917)
# Uzerche (1918)
# L'Yssandonnais (1919)

## Demographics
The inhabitants of Corrèze are known, in French, as *Corréziens* (women: *Corréziennes*).

Corrèze has a population, in 2014, of 241,340, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The *arrondissement* of Brive-la-Gaillarde, with 130,034 inhabitants, is by far the largest. The other two, Tulle and Ussel, have respectively 78,408 and 32,898 inhabitants.

**Evolution of the population in Corrèze**

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The city with more people living in it is Brive-la-Gaillarde (46,961) and not the capitalː Tulle (14,325).

The main cities in the department are:

## Gallery

Tulle 2207.jpg|Tulle
Uzerche, Église Saint-Pierre-PM 18517.jpg|Uzerche
Argentat, July 2009.jpg|Argentat
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne Limousin France 2010 Kapel des Pénitents 4.jpg|Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
Collonges-la-Rouge rue.JPG|Collonges-la-Rouge

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

## References
## Other websites
* Departmental Council website 
* Prefecture website 
* Official Corrèze tourism website