Arrondissement of Montpellier


The arrondissement of Montpellier is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Hérault département. Its INSEE code is 343 and its capital city, and prefecture of the department, is Montpellier. It has 67 communes. Its population is 683,935, and its area is.
The main cities in the arrondissement are Montpellier, Sète, Lunel, Frontignan, Mauguio, Castelnau-le-Lez, Lattes and Mèze.

Geography

The arrondissement covers the northeastern part of the department and is bordered to the north and northeast by the Gard department, to the east and south by the Gulf of Lion, to the southwest by the arrondissement of Béziers and to the west by the arrondissement of Lodève.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Montpellier are :
  1. Baillargues
  2. Balaruc-le-Vieux
  3. Balaruc-les-Bains
  4. Beaulieu
  5. Boisseron
  6. Bouzigues
  7. Campagne
  8. Candillargues
  9. Castelnau-le-Lez
  10. Castries
  11. Clapiers
  12. Cournonsec
  13. Cournonterral
  14. Le Crès
  15. Entre-Vignes
  16. Fabrègues
  17. Frontignan
  18. Galargues
  19. Garrigues
  20. Gigean
  21. Grabels
  22. La Grande-Motte
  23. Jacou
  24. Juvignac
  25. Lansargues
  26. Lattes
  27. Lavérune
  28. Loupian
  29. Lunel
  30. Lunel-Viel
  31. Marseillan
  32. Marsillargues
  33. Mauguio
  34. Mireval
  35. Montaud
  36. Montbazin
  37. Montferrier-sur-Lez
  38. Montpellier
  39. Mudaison
  40. Murviel-lès-Montpellier
  41. Mèze
  42. Palavas-les-Flots
  43. Pignan
  44. Poussan
  45. Prades-le-Lez
  46. Pérols
  47. Restinclières
  48. Saint-Aunès
  49. Saint-Brès
  50. Saint-Drézéry
  51. Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues
  52. Saint-Georges-d'Orques
  53. Saint-Jean-de-Védas
  54. Saint-Just
  55. Saint-Nazaire-de-Pézan
  56. Saint-Sériès
  57. Saturargues
  58. Saussan
  59. Saussines
  60. Sussargues
  61. Sète
  62. Valergues
  63. Vendargues
  64. Vic-la-Gardiole
  65. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
  66. Villetelle
  67. Villeveyrac

    History

The arrondissement of Montpellier was created in 1800. In 2009 it lost the three cantons of Aniane, Ganges and Saint-Martin-de-Londres to the arrondissement of Lodève. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Hérault, it gained one commune from the arrondissement of Béziers, and it lost 26 communes to the arrondissement of Lodève.
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 Montpellier were, as of January 2015:
  1. Castelnau-le-Lez
  2. Castries
  3. Claret
  4. Frontignan
  5. Lattes
  6. Lunel
  7. Les Matelles
  8. Mauguio
  9. Mèze
  10. Montpellier-1
  11. Montpellier-2
  12. Montpellier-3
  13. Montpellier-4
  14. Montpellier-5
  15. Montpellier-6
  16. Montpellier-7
  17. Montpellier-8
  18. Montpellier-9
  19. Montpellier-10
  20. Pignan
  21. Sète-1
  22. Sète-2