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![]() Location within the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
Country | France |
Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Var |
No. of communes | 32 |
Prefecture | Toulon |
Area | 1,233.5 km2 (476.3 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 581,459 |
INSEE code | 832 |
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.
When the Var department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Toulon was part of that original department.[2]
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).
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
The arrondissement of Toulon has 32 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[5] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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83137 | Toulon | 165,584 | Toulon-1, Toulon-2 Toulon-3, Toulon-4 |
Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83126 | La Seyne-sur-Mer | 64,675 | La Seyne-sur-Mer-1 La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 |
Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83069 | Hyères | 56,502 | La Crau and Hyères | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83129 | Six-Fours-les-Plages | 33,652 | La Seyne-sur-Mer-2 | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83062 | La Garde | 25,145 | La Garde | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83144 | La Valette-du-Var | 22,271 | Toulon-3 | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83047 | La Crau | 16,749 | La Crau | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83123 | Sanary-sur-Mer | 15,963 | Ollioules | Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume |
83090 | Ollioules | 13,167 | Ollioules | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
83112 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer | 12,262 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer | Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte-Baume |