Arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains


The arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains is an arrondissement of France in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has had 46 communes. Its population is 47,298, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Aiglun
  2. Archail
  3. Auzet
  4. Barles
  5. Barras
  6. Beaujeu
  7. Beynes
  8. Bras-d'Asse
  9. Le Brusquet
  10. Le Castellard-Mélan
  11. Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson
  12. Champtercier
  13. Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban
  14. Châteauredon
  15. Digne-les-Bains
  16. Draix
  17. Entrages
  18. L'Escale
  19. Estoublon
  20. Ganagobie
  21. Hautes-Duyes
  22. La Javie
  23. Majastres
  24. Malijai
  25. Mallefougasse-Augès
  26. Mallemoisson
  27. Marcoux
  28. Les Mées
  29. Mézel
  30. Mirabeau
  31. Montclar
  32. Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
  33. Peyruis
  34. Prads-Haute-Bléone
  35. La Robine-sur-Galabre
  36. Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon
  37. Saint-Jeannet
  38. Saint-Julien-d'Asse
  39. Saint-Jurs
  40. Saint-Martin-lès-Seyne
  41. Selonnet
  42. Seyne
  43. Thoard
  44. Verdaches
  45. Le Vernet
  46. Volonne

    History

The arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, it lost nine communes to the arrondissement of Castellane and 16 communes to the arrondissement of Forcalquier, and it gained six communes from the arrondissement of Forcalquier.
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 Digne-les-Bains were, as of January 2015:
  1. Barrême
  2. Digne-les-Bains-Est
  3. Digne-les-Bains-Ouest
  4. La Javie
  5. Les Mées
  6. Mézel
  7. Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
  8. Riez
  9. Seyne
  10. Valensole