Arrondissement of Brignoles


The arrondissement of Brignoles is an arrondissement of France in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 67 communes. Its population is 181,649, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Brignoles, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Aiguines
  2. Artignosc-sur-Verdon
  3. Artigues
  4. Aups
  5. Barjols
  6. Baudinard-sur-Verdon
  7. Bauduen
  8. Besse-sur-Issole
  9. Bras
  10. Brignoles
  11. Brue-Auriac
  12. Cabasse
  13. Camps-la-Source
  14. Le Cannet-des-Maures
  15. Carcès
  16. Carnoules
  17. La Celle
  18. Châteauvert
  19. Correns
  20. Cotignac
  21. Entrecasteaux
  22. Esparron
  23. Flassans-sur-Issole
  24. Forcalqueiret
  25. Fox-Amphoux
  26. Garéoult
  27. Ginasservis
  28. Gonfaron
  29. Le Luc
  30. Les Mayons
  31. Mazaugues
  32. Méounes-lès-Montrieux
  33. Moissac-Bellevue
  34. Montfort-sur-Argens
  35. Montmeyan
  36. Nans-les-Pins
  37. Néoules
  38. Ollières
  39. Pignans
  40. Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume
  41. Pontevès
  42. Pourcieux
  43. Pourrières
  44. Puget-Ville
  45. Régusse
  46. Rians
  47. Rocbaron
  48. La Roquebrussanne
  49. Rougiers
  50. Sainte-Anastasie-sur-Issole
  51. Saint-Julien
  52. Saint-Martin-de-Pallières
  53. Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
  54. Saint-Zacharie
  55. Les Salles-sur-Verdon
  56. Seillons-Source-d'Argens
  57. Tavernes
  58. Le Thoronet
  59. Tourtour
  60. Tourves
  61. Le Val
  62. Varages
  63. La Verdière
  64. Vérignon
  65. Villecroze
  66. Vinon-sur-Verdon
  67. Vins-sur-Caramy

    History

The arrondissement of Brignoles was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1974. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Var, it received six communes from the arrondissement of Draguignan and two communes from the arrondissement of Toulon, and it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Draguignan.
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 Brignoles were, as of January 2015:
  1. Aups
  2. Barjols
  3. Besse-sur-Issole
  4. Brignoles
  5. Cotignac
  6. Rians
  7. La Roquebrussanne
  8. Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
  9. Tavernes