Arrondissement of Quimper


The arrondissement of Quimper is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department, Brittany. It has 84 communes. Its population is 322,740, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Quimper, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Arzano
  2. Audierne
  3. Bannalec
  4. Baye
  5. Bénodet
  6. Beuzec-Cap-Sizun
  7. Briec
  8. Cléden-Cap-Sizun
  9. Clohars-Carnoët
  10. Clohars-Fouesnant
  11. Combrit
  12. Concarneau
  13. Confort-Meilars
  14. Douarnenez
  15. Edern
  16. Elliant
  17. Ergué-Gabéric
  18. La Forêt-Fouesnant
  19. Fouesnant
  20. Gouesnac'h
  21. Goulien
  22. Gourlizon
  23. Guengat
  24. Guiler-sur-Goyen
  25. Guilligomarc'h
  26. Guilvinec
  27. Île-de-Sein
  28. Île-Tudy
  29. Le Juch
  30. Kerlaz
  31. Landrévarzec
  32. Landudal
  33. Landudec
  34. Langolen
  35. Locronan
  36. Loctudy
  37. Locunolé
  38. Mahalon
  39. Melgven
  40. Mellac
  41. Moëlan-sur-Mer
  42. Névez
  43. Penmarch
  44. Peumerit
  45. Pleuven
  46. Plobannalec-Lesconil
  47. Plogastel-Saint-Germain
  48. Plogoff
  49. Plogonnec
  50. Plomelin
  51. Plomeur
  52. Plonéis
  53. Plonéour-Lanvern
  54. Plouhinec
  55. Plovan
  56. Plozévet
  57. Pluguffan
  58. Pont-Aven
  59. Pont-Croix
  60. Pont-l'Abbé
  61. Pouldergat
  62. Pouldreuzic
  63. Poullan-sur-Mer
  64. Primelin
  65. Quéménéven
  66. Querrien
  67. Quimper
  68. Quimperlé
  69. Rédené
  70. Riec-sur-Belon
  71. Rosporden
  72. Saint-Évarzec
  73. Saint-Jean-Trolimon
  74. Saint-Thurien
  75. Saint-Yvi
  76. Scaër
  77. Tourch
  78. Treffiagat
  79. Tréguennec
  80. Trégunc
  81. Tréméoc
  82. Tréméven
  83. Tréogat
  84. Le Trévoux

    History

The arrondissement of Quimper was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Finistère, it gained three communes from the arrondissement of Châteaulin.
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 Quimper were, as of January 2015:
  1. Arzano
  2. Bannalec
  3. Briec
  4. Concarneau
  5. Douarnenez
  6. Fouesnant
  7. Guilvinec
  8. Plogastel-Saint-Germain
  9. Pont-Aven
  10. Pont-Croix
  11. Pont-l'Abbé
  12. Quimper-1
  13. Quimper-2
  14. Quimper-3
  15. Quimperlé
  16. Rosporden
  17. Scaër