Arrondissement of Carpentras explained

Type:	arr
Carpentras
Insee:	843
Nbcomm:	77
Prefecture:	n
Seat:	Carpentras
Area:	1807.0

The arrondissement of Carpentras is an arrondissement of France in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 77 communes. Its population is 215,881 (2016), and its area is 1807km2.^[1]

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Carpentras, and their INSEE codes, are:^[2]

Althen-des-Paluds (84001)
Aubignan (84004)
Aurel (84005)
Le Barroux (84008)
Le Beaucet (84011)
Beaumes-de-Venise (84012)
Beaumont-du-Ventoux (84015)
Bédoin (84017)
Blauvac (84018)
Bollène (84019)
Brantes (84021)
Buisson (84022)
Caderousse (84027)
Cairanne (84028)
Camaret-sur-Aigues (84029)
Caromb (84030)
Carpentras (84031)
Châteauneuf-du-Pape (84037)
Crestet (84040)
Crillon-le-Brave (84041)
Entrechaux (84044)
Faucon (84045)
Flassan (84046)
Gigondas (84049)
Grillon (84053)
Jonquières (84056)
Lafare (84059)
Lagarde-Paréol (84061)
Lamotte-du-Rhône (84063)
Lapalud (84064)
Loriol-du-Comtat (84067)
Malaucène (84069)
Malemort-du-Comtat (84070)
Mazan (84072)
Méthamis (84075)
Modène (84077)
Mondragon (84078)
Monieux (84079)
Monteux (84080)
Mormoiron (84082)
Mornas (84083)
Orange (84087)
Pernes-les-Fontaines (84088)
Piolenc (84091)
Puyméras (84094)
Rasteau (84096)
Richerenches (84097)
Roaix (84098)
La Roque-Alric (84100)
La Roque-sur-Pernes (84101)
Sablet (84104)
Saint-Christol (84107)
Saint-Didier (84108)
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes (84106)
Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron (84109)
Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux (84110)
Saint-Marcellin-lès-Vaison (84111)
Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols (84115)
Saint-Romain-en-Viennois (84116)
Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde (84117)
Saint-Trinit (84120)
Sarrians (84122)
Sault (84123)
Savoillan (84125)
Séguret (84126)
Sérignan-du-Comtat (84127)
Suzette (84130)
Travaillan (84134)
Uchaux (84135)
Vacqueyras (84136)
Vaison-la-Romaine (84137)
Valréas (84138)
Venasque (84143)
Villedieu (84146)
Villes-sur-Auzon (84148)
Violès (84149)
Visan (84150)

History

The arrondissement of Carpentras was created in 1800.^[3] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Vaucluse, it received 21 communes from the arrondissement of Avignon, and it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Avignon.^[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 Carpentras were, as of January 2015:^[5]

References

44.05°N 5.05°W

Notes and References

Web site: Comparateur de territoire, géographie au 01/01/2019. 2019-10-04. INSEE.
Web site: Arrondissement de Carpentras (843). 2019-10-04. INSEE.
Web site: Historique de Vaucluse. French. Site sur la Population et les Limites Administratives de la France. 22 December 2020. 3 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221142/http://splaf.free.fr/84his.html. live.
Web site: Arrêté préfectoral, 20 December 2016. 11–15. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170807193506/http://www.prefectures-regions.gouv.fr/provence-alpes-cote-dazur/content/download/28765/197538/file/recueil-r93-2016-119_21%20d%C3%A9cembre%202016.pdf . 7 August 2017.
https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/2119595/dep84.pdf Populations légales 2012: 84 Vaucluse