Arrondissement of Toulon

The arrondissement of Toulon is an arrondissement of France, in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Toulon.

Toulon
Arrondissement
Location within the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Location within the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
CountryFrance
RegionProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
DepartmentVar
No. of communes32
PrefectureToulon
Area
1,233.5 km2 (476.3 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[1]
581,459
INSEE code832

History

When the Var department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Toulon was part of that original department.[2]

Geography

The arrondissement of Toulon is in the southern part of the Var department. It is bordered to the north by the Brignoles arrondissement, to the east by the Draguignan arrondissement, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the west by the Bouches-du-Rhône department.

The arrondissement of Toulon is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, 1,295.8 square kilometres (500.3 square miles), but the one with more people living in it (565,669 inhabitants).

Composition

Cantons

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There are 14 cantons in the arrondissement of Toulon and 4 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement

  1. La Crau (8302) (partly)
  2. La Garde (8306)
  3. Garéoult (8307) (partly)
  4. Hyères (8308)
  5. Le Luc (8309) (partly)
  6. Ollioules (8310)
  7. Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (8312) (partly)
  8. La Seyne-sur-Mer-1 (8316)
  9. La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 (8317)
  10. Solliès-Pont (8318)
  11. Toulon-1 (8319)
  12. Toulon-2 (8320)
  13. Toulon-3 (8321)
  14. Toulon-4 (8322)

Communes

The arrondissement of Toulon has 32 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]

  1. Bandol (83009)
  2. Le Beausset (83016)
  3. Belgentier (83017)
  4. Bormes-les-Mimosas (83019)
  5. La Cadière-d'Azur (83027)
  6. Carqueiranne (83034)
  7. Le Castellet (83035)
  8. Collobrières (83043)
  9. La Crau (83047)
  10. Cuers (83049)
  11. Évenos (83053)
  12. La Farlède (83054)
  13. La Garde (83062)
  14. Hyères (83069)
  15. Le Lavandou (83070)
  16. La Londe-les-Maures (83071)
  17. Ollioules (83090)
  18. Pierrefeu-du-Var (83091)
  19. Le Pradet (83098)
  20. Le Revest-les-Eaux (83103)
  21. Riboux (83105)
  22. Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (83112)
  23. Sanary-sur-Mer (83123)
  24. La Seyne-sur-Mer (83126)
  25. Signes (83127)
  26. Six-Fours-les-Plages (83129)
  27. Solliès-Pont (83130)
  28. Solliès-Toucas (83131)
  29. Solliès-Ville (83132)
  30. Toulon (83137)
  31. La Valette-du-Var (83144)
  32. Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer (83153)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

INSEE
code		CommunePopulation[5]
(2014)		CantonIntercommunality
83137Toulon165,584Toulon-1, Toulon-2
Toulon-3, Toulon-4		Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83126La Seyne-sur-Mer64,675La Seyne-sur-Mer-1
La Seyne-sur-Mer-2		Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83069Hyères56,502La Crau and HyèresCommunauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83129Six-Fours-les-Plages33,652La Seyne-sur-Mer-2Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83062La Garde25,145La GardeCommunauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83144La Valette-du-Var22,271Toulon-3Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83047La Crau16,749La CrauCommunauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83123Sanary-sur-Mer15,963OllioulesCommunauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume
83090Ollioules13,167OllioulesCommunauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée
83112Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer12,262Saint-Cyr-sur-MerCommunauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume

References
  1. "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
  2. "Historique du Var". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. "Décret n° 2014-270 du 27 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Var" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  4. "Arrondissement de Toulon (832)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  5. "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

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