Arrondissement of Perpignan


The arrondissement of Perpignan is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region. It has 39 communes. Its population is 285,077, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Perpignan, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Baho
  2. Baixas
  3. Le Barcarès
  4. Bompas
  5. Cabestany
  6. Calce
  7. Canet-en-Roussillon
  8. Canohès
  9. Cases-de-Pène
  10. Cassagnes
  11. Claira
  12. Espira-de-l'Agly
  13. Estagel
  14. Llupia
  15. Montner
  16. Opoul-Périllos
  17. Perpignan
  18. Peyrestortes
  19. Pézilla-la-Rivière
  20. Pia
  21. Pollestres
  22. Ponteilla
  23. Rivesaltes
  24. Sainte-Marie-la-Mer
  25. Saint-Estève
  26. Saint-Féliu-d'Avall
  27. Saint-Hippolyte
  28. Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque
  29. Saint-Nazaire
  30. Saleilles
  31. Salses-le-Château
  32. Le Soler
  33. Tautavel
  34. Torreilles
  35. Toulouges
  36. Villelongue-de-la-Salanque
  37. Villeneuve-de-la-Raho
  38. Villeneuve-la-Rivière
  39. Vingrau

    History

The arrondissement of Perpignan was created in 1800. In January 2017 it lost 24 communes to the arrondissement of Céret and 23 communes to the arrondissement of Prades.
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 Perpignan were, as of January 2015:
  1. Canet-en-Roussillon
  2. La Côte Radieuse
  3. Elne
  4. Latour-de-France
  5. Millas
  6. Perpignan-1
  7. Perpignan-2
  8. Perpignan-3
  9. Perpignan-4
  10. Perpignan-5
  11. Perpignan-6
  12. Perpignan-7
  13. Perpignan-8
  14. Perpignan-9
  15. Rivesaltes
  16. Saint-Estève
  17. Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque
  18. Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet
  19. Thuir
  20. Toulouges