Arrondissement of Agen

The **arrondissement of Agen** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne *département* in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Agen.

## History
When the *arrondissements* were created in 1800, Agen was one of them in the Lot-et-Garonne department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* is bordered to the north by the *arrondissement* Villeneuve-sur-Lot, to the east by the Tarn-et-Garonne department, to the south by the Gers department, to the west by the *arrondissement* Nérac and to the northwest by the *arrondissement* Marmande.

It is in the southeast of the department and it is the smallest of the *arrondissements* of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of , and a population of 120,235 inhabitants; its population density is 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 Agen, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the *arrondissement*: Le Confluent and Le Pays de Serres. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Agen has 71 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Agen (47001)
# Aiguillon (47004)
# Astaffort (47015)
# Aubiac (47016)
# Bajamont (47019)
# Bazens (47022)
# Beauville (47025)
# Blaymont (47030)
# Bon-Encontre (47032)
# Bourran (47038)
# Boé (47031)
# Brax (47040)
# Cassignas (47050)
# Castelculier (47051)
# Castella (47053)
# Caudecoste (47060)
# Cauzac (47062)
# Clermont-Dessous (47066)
# Clermont-Soubiran (47067)
# Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (47069)
# Cours (47073)
# Cuq (47076)
# Dondas (47082)
# Engayrac (47087)
# Estillac (47091)
# Fals (47092)
# Foulayronnes (47100)
# Frégimont (47104)
# Galapian (47107)
# Granges-sur-Lot (47111)
# Grayssas (47113)
# La Croix-Blanche (47075)
# La Sauvetat-de-Savères (47289)
# Lacépède (47125)
# Lafox (47128)
# Lagarrigue (47129)
# Laplume (47137)
# Laroque-Timbaut (47138)
# Laugnac (47140)
# Layrac (47145)
# Le Passage (47201)
# Lusignan-Petit (47154)
# Madaillan (47155)
# Marmont-Pachas (47158)
# Moirax (47169)
# Monbalen (47171)
# Montpezat (47190)
# Nicole (47196)
# Pont-du-Casse (47209)
# Port-Sainte-Marie (47210)
# Prayssas (47213)
# Puymirol (47217)
# Roquefort (47225)
# Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm (47234)
# Saint-Hilaire-de-Lusignan (47246)
# Saint-Jean-de-Thurac (47248)
# Saint-Martin-de-Beauville (47255)
# Saint-Maurin (47260)
# Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Balerme (47262)
# Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac (47269)
# Saint-Robert (47273)
# Saint-Romain-le-Noble (47274)
# Saint-Salvy (47275)
# Saint-Sardos (47276)
# Saint-Sixte (47279)
# Saint-Urcisse (47281)
# Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois (47238)
# Sauvagnas (47288)
# Sauveterre-Saint-Denis (47293)
# Sérignac-sur-Garonne (47300)
# Tayrac (47305)

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

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department
* Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

## References