Arrondissement of Carpentras


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, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Carpentras, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Althen-des-Paluds
  2. Aubignan
  3. Aurel
  4. Le Barroux
  5. Le Beaucet
  6. Beaumes-de-Venise
  7. Beaumont-du-Ventoux
  8. Bédoin
  9. Blauvac
  10. Bollène
  11. Brantes
  12. Buisson
  13. Caderousse
  14. Cairanne
  15. Camaret-sur-Aigues
  16. Caromb
  17. Carpentras
  18. Châteauneuf-du-Pape
  19. Crestet
  20. Crillon-le-Brave
  21. Entrechaux
  22. Faucon
  23. Flassan
  24. Gigondas
  25. Grillon
  26. Jonquières
  27. Lafare
  28. Lagarde-Paréol
  29. Lamotte-du-Rhône
  30. Lapalud
  31. Loriol-du-Comtat
  32. Malaucène
  33. Malemort-du-Comtat
  34. Mazan
  35. Méthamis
  36. Modène
  37. Mondragon
  38. Monieux
  39. Monteux
  40. Mormoiron
  41. Mornas
  42. Orange
  43. Pernes-les-Fontaines
  44. Piolenc
  45. Puyméras
  46. Rasteau
  47. Richerenches
  48. Roaix
  49. La Roque-Alric
  50. La Roque-sur-Pernes
  51. Sablet
  52. Saint-Christol
  53. Saint-Didier
  54. Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes
  55. Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron
  56. Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux
  57. Saint-Marcellin-lès-Vaison
  58. Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols
  59. Saint-Romain-en-Viennois
  60. Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde
  61. Saint-Trinit
  62. Sarrians
  63. Sault
  64. Savoillan
  65. Séguret
  66. Sérignan-du-Comtat
  67. Suzette
  68. Travaillan
  69. Uchaux
  70. Vacqueyras
  71. Vaison-la-Romaine
  72. Valréas
  73. Venasque
  74. Villedieu
  75. Villes-sur-Auzon
  76. Violès
  77. Visan

    History

The arrondissement of Carpentras was created in 1800. 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.
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:
  1. Beaumes-de-Venise
  2. Carpentras-Nord
  3. Carpentras-Sud
  4. Malaucène
  5. Mormoiron
  6. Pernes-les-Fontaines
  7. Sault
  8. Vaison-la-Romaine