The arrondissement of Avignon is an arrondissement of France, in the Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Avignon.
History
When the Vaucluse department was created on 1793, the arrondissement of Avignon was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Avignon is in the northwest of the Vaucluse department. It includes the exclave of Valreás that is to the north of the department surrounded by the Drôme department.
It has the Carpentras arrondissement to the east, the Apt arrondissement to the southeast, the Bouches-du-Rhône department to the south, the Gard department to the west, the Ardèche department to the northwest and the Drôme department to the north.
The arrondissement of Avignon is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, , but the one with more people living in it (296,303 inhabitants) and a density of inhabitants/km².
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Avignon, the Cheval-Blanc, Le Pontet and Vaison-la-Romaine cantons do not have all their communes in the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The communes of the arrondissement of Avignon are:
Avignon (84007) Bollène (84019) Bédarrides (84016) Cabrières-d'Avignon (84025) Caderousse (84027) Camaret-sur-Aigues (84029) Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne (84036) Châteauneuf-du-Pape (84037) Courthézon (84039) Fontaine-de-Vaucluse (84139) Grillon (84053) Jonquerettes (84055) Jonquières (84056) L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (84054) Lagarde-Paréol (84061) Lagnes (84062) Lamotte-du-Rhône (84063) Lapalud (84064) Le Pontet (84092) Le Thor (84132) Mondragon (84078) Morières-lès-Avignon (84081) Mornas (84083) Orange (84087) Piolenc (84091) Richerenches (84097) Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon (84119) Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes (84106) Saumane-de-Vaucluse (84124) Sorgues (84129) Sérignan-du-Comtat (84127) Travaillan (84134) Uchaux (84135) Valréas (84138) Vedène (84141) Violès (84149) Visan (84150)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are: