Arrondissement of Dax

The **arrondissement of Dax** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Landes *département*. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Dax.

## History
When the *arrondissements* were created in 1800, Dax was one of them in the Landes department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Dax is in the southwest of the Landes department; it has an area of , and a population of 220,656 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².

The *arrondissement* is bordered to the north and east by the *arrondissement* of Mont-de-Marsan, to the south by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and to the west by the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean).

## 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 Dax, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the *arrondissement*: Côte d'Argent and Pays morcenais tarusate. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Dax has 152 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Amou (40002)
# Angoumé (40003)
# Angresse (40004)
# Argelos (40007)
# Arsague (40011)
# Audon (40018)
# Azur (40021)
# Baigts (40023)
# Bassercles (40027)
# Bastennes (40028)
# Bégaar (40031)
# Bélus (40034)
# Bénesse-lès-Dax (40035)
# Bénesse-Maremne (40036)
# Bergouey (40038)
# Beylongue (40040)
# Beyries (40041)
# Biarrotte (40042)
# Biaudos (40044)
# Bonnegarde (40047)
# Brassempouy (40054)
# Cagnotte (40059)
# Candresse (40063)
# Capbreton (40065)
# Carcarès-Sainte-Croix (40066)
# Carcen-Ponson (40067)
# Cassen (40068)
# Castaignos-Souslens (40069)
# Castelnau-Chalosse (40071)
# Castel-Sarrazin (40074)
# Castets (40075)
# Cauneille (40077)
# Caupenne (40078)
# Clermont (40084)
# Dax (40088)
# Doazit (40089)
# Donzacq (40090)
# Estibeaux (40095)
# Gaas (40101)
# Gamarde-les-Bains (40104)
# Garrey (40106)
# Gaujacq (40109)
# Gibret (40112)
# Goos (40113)
# Gourbera (40114)
# Gousse (40115)
# Gouts (40116)
# Habas (40118)
# Hastingues (40120)
# Hauriet (40121)
# Herm (40123)
# Heugas (40125)
# Hinx (40126)
# Josse (40129)
# Labatut (40132)
# Labenne (40133)
# Lahosse (40141)
# Laluque (40142)
# Lamothe (40143)
# Larbey (40144)
# Laurède (40147)
# Léon (40150)
# Lesgor (40151)
# Le Leuy (40153)
# Lévignacq (40154)
# Linxe (40155)
# Lit-et-Mixe (40157)
# Louer (40159)
# Lourquen (40160)
# Magescq (40168)
# Marpaps (40173)
# Maylis (40177)
# Mées (40179)
# Meilhan (40180)
# Messanges (40181)
# Mimbaste (40183)
# Misson (40186)
# Moliets-et-Maa (40187)
# Montfort-en-Chalosse (40194)
# Mouscardès (40199)
# Mugron (40201)
# Narrosse (40202)
# Nassiet (40203)
# Nerbis (40204)
# Nousse (40205)
# Oeyregave (40206)
# Oeyreluy (40207)
# Onard (40208)
# Ondres (40209)
# Orist (40211)
# Orthevielle (40212)
# Orx (40213)
# Ossages (40214)
# Ozourt (40216)
# Pey (40222)
# Peyrehorade (40224)
# Pomarez (40228)
# Pontonx-sur-l'Adour (40230)
# Port-de-Lanne (40231)
# Pouillon (40233)
# Poyanne (40235)
# Poyartin (40236)
# Préchacq-les-Bains (40237)
# Rion-des-Landes (40243)
# Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby (40244)
# Saint-André-de-Seignanx (40248)
# Saint-Aubin (40249)
# Saint-Barthélemy (40251)
# Saint-Cricq-du-Gave (40254)
# Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse (40271)
# Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe (40256)
# Saint-Geours-d'Auribat (40260)
# Saint-Geours-de-Maremne (40261)
# Saint-Jean-de-Lier (40263)
# Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq (40264)
# Saint-Julien-en-Born (40266)
# Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse (40268)
# Saint-Lon-les-Mines (40269)
# Saint-Martin-de-Hinx (40272)
# Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx (40273)
# Saint-Michel-Escalus (40276)
# Saint-Pandelon (40277)
# Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (40279)
# Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (40283)
# Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse (40284)
# Saint-Yaguen (40285)
# Saubion (40291)
# Saubrigues (40292)
# Saubusse (40293)
# Saugnac-et-Cambran (40294)
# Seignosse (40296)
# Seyresse (40300)
# Siest (40301)
# Soorts-Hossegor (40304)
# Sorde-l'Abbaye (40306)
# Sort-en-Chalosse (40308)
# Souprosse (40309)
# Soustons (40310)
# Taller (40311)
# Tarnos (40312)
# Tartas (40313)
# Tercis-les-Bains (40314)
# Téthieu (40315)
# Tilh (40316)
# Tosse (40317)
# Toulouzette (40318)
# Uza (40322)
# Vicq-d'Auribat (40324)
# Vielle-Saint-Girons (40326)
# Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains (40328)
# Villenave (40330)
# Yzosse (40334)

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

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

## References