Arrondissement of Lorient


The arrondissement of Lorient is an arrondissement of France in the Morbihan department in the Brittany region. It has 58 communes. Its population is 312,063, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Lorient, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Auray
  2. Bangor
  3. Belz
  4. Brandérion
  5. Brech
  6. Bubry
  7. Calan
  8. Camors
  9. Carnac
  10. Caudan
  11. Cléguer
  12. Crach
  13. Erdeven
  14. Étel
  15. Gâvres
  16. Gestel
  17. Groix
  18. Guidel
  19. Hennebont
  20. Hœdic
  21. Île-d'Houat
  22. Inguiniel
  23. Inzinzac-Lochrist
  24. Kervignac
  25. Landaul
  26. Landévant
  27. Lanester
  28. Languidic
  29. Lanvaudan
  30. Larmor-Plage
  31. Locmaria
  32. Locmariaquer
  33. Locmiquélic
  34. Locoal-Mendon
  35. Lorient
  36. Merlevenez
  37. Nostang
  38. Le Palais
  39. Ploemel
  40. Ploemeur
  41. Plouay
  42. Plouharnel
  43. Plouhinec
  44. Plumergat
  45. Pluneret
  46. Pluvigner
  47. Pont-Scorff
  48. Port-Louis
  49. Quéven
  50. Quiberon
  51. Quistinic
  52. Riantec
  53. Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
  54. Sainte-Hélène
  55. Saint-Philibert
  56. Saint-Pierre-Quiberon
  57. Sauzon
  58. La Trinité-sur-Mer

    History

The arrondissement of Lorient was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Morbihan, it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Vannes.
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 Lorient were, as of January 2015:
  1. Auray
  2. Belle-Île
  3. Belz
  4. Groix
  5. Hennebont
  6. Lanester
  7. Lorient-Centre
  8. Lorient-Nord
  9. Lorient-Sud
  10. Ploemeur
  11. Plouay
  12. Pluvigner
  13. Pont-Scorff
  14. Port-Louis
  15. Quiberon