Arrondissement of Toulon explained
Type: | arr |
Toulon |
Insee: | 832 |
Nbcomm: | 32 |
Prefecture: | y |
Seat: | Toulon |
Area: | 1233.5 |
The arrondissement of Toulon (French: arrondissement de Toulon) is an arrondissement of France in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 32 communes. Its population is 567,852 (2016), and its area is 1233.5km2.[1]
Composition
The communes of the arrondissement of Toulon, and their INSEE codes, are:[2]
- Bandol (83009)
- Le Beausset (83016)
- Belgentier (83017)
- Bormes-les-Mimosas (83019)
- La Cadière-d'Azur (83027)
- Carqueiranne (83034)
- Le Castellet (83035)
- Collobrières (83043)
- La Crau (83047)
- Cuers (83049)
- Évenos (83053)
- La Farlède (83054)
- La Garde (83062)
- Hyères (83069)
- Le Lavandou (83070)
- La Londe-les-Maures (83071)
- Ollioules (83090)
- Pierrefeu-du-Var (83091)
- Le Pradet (83098)
- Le Revest-les-Eaux (83103)
- Riboux (83105)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (83112)
- Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer (83153)
- Sanary-sur-Mer (83123)
- La Seyne-sur-Mer (83126)
- Signes (83127)
- Six-Fours-les-Plages (83129)
- Solliès-Pont (83130)
- Solliès-Toucas (83131)
- Solliès-Ville (83132)
- Toulon (83137)
- La Valette-du-Var (83144)
History
The arrondissement of Toulon was created in 1800.[3] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Var, it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Brignoles.[4]
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Toulon were, as of January 2015:[5]
- Le Beausset
- Collobrières
- La Crau
- Cuers
- La Garde
- Hyères-Est
- Hyères-Ouest
- Ollioules
- Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer
- La Seyne-sur-Mer
- Six-Fours-les-Plages
- Solliès-Pont
- Toulon-1
- Toulon-2
- Toulon-3
- Toulon-4
- Toulon-5
- Toulon-6
- Toulon-7
- Toulon-8
- Toulon-9
- La Valette-du-Var
References
43.12°N 5.93°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Comparateur de territoire, géographie au 01/01/2019. 2019-10-04. INSEE.
- Web site: Arrondissement de Toulon (832). 2019-10-04. INSEE.
- http://splaf.free.fr/83his.html Historique du Var
- Web site: Arrêté préfectoral, 20 December 2016. 17–21. 2019-10-27.
- Web site: Populations légales 2012: 83 Var. December 2014. INSEE.