Arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence


The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is an arrondissement of France in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 48 communes. Its population is 450,153, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Aix-en-Provence
  2. Alleins
  3. Aurons
  4. La Barben
  5. Beaurecueil
  6. Bouc-Bel-Air
  7. Cabriès
  8. Charleval
  9. Châteauneuf-le-Rouge
  10. Coudoux
  11. Éguilles
  12. Eyguières
  13. La Fare-les-Oliviers
  14. Fuveau
  15. Gardanne
  16. Gréasque
  17. Jouques
  18. Lamanon
  19. Lambesc
  20. Lançon-Provence
  21. Mallemort
  22. Meyrargues
  23. Meyreuil
  24. Mimet
  25. Pélissanne
  26. Les Pennes-Mirabeau
  27. Peynier
  28. Peyrolles-en-Provence
  29. Puyloubier
  30. Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
  31. Rognes
  32. La Roque-d'Anthéron
  33. Rousset
  34. Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon
  35. Saint-Cannat
  36. Saint-Estève-Janson
  37. Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde
  38. Saint-Paul-lès-Durance
  39. Salon-de-Provence
  40. Sénas
  41. Simiane-Collongue
  42. Le Tholonet
  43. Trets
  44. Vauvenargues
  45. Velaux
  46. Venelles
  47. Ventabren
  48. Vernègues

    History

The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence was created in 1800. At the March 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Bouches-du-Rhône, it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Istres and one commune to the arrondissement of Marseille, and it gained six communes from the arrondissement of Arles and one commune from the arrondissement of Marseille.
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 Aix-en-Provence were, as of January 2015:
  1. Aix-en-Provence-Centre
  2. Aix-en-Provence-Nord-Est
  3. Aix-en-Provence-Sud-Ouest
  4. Gardanne
  5. Lambesc
  6. Pélissanne
  7. Les Pennes-Mirabeau
  8. Peyrolles-en-Provence
  9. Salon-de-Provence
  10. Trets