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The arrondissement of Vesoul is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Haute-Saône département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Its capital, and prefecture of the department, is the city of Vesoul.
Vesoul | |
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Country | France |
Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
Department | Haute-Saône |
No. of communes | 346 |
Prefecture | Vesoul |
Area | 3,453.9 km2 (1,333.6 sq mi) |
Population | 127,422 |
INSEE code | 702 |
When the arrondissements of Haute-Saône were created in 1800, Vesoul was one of them in the Haute-Saône department.[2]
The arrondissement of Vesoul is in the southern half of the department; it is the largest and with more people living in it of the arrondissements of the Haute-Saône department. It has an area of 3,511.8 square kilometres (1,356 square miles),[3] with a population of 129,622 inhabitants and a population density of 36.9 inhabitants/km².[4]
The arrondissement of Vesoul is bordered to the north by the Vosges department, to the northeast by the arrondissement Lure, to the east by the Doubs department, to the south by the JuraDoubs department, to the southwest by the Côte-d'Or department and to the west by the Haute-Marne department.
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Vesoul, there are ten cantons and three of them do not have all their "communes" in the arrondissement:
The arrondissement of Vesoul has 347 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[6]
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:
INSEE code | Commune | Population[4] (2014) | Canton | Intercommunality |
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70550 | Vesoul | 9,967 | Vesoul-1 and Vesoul-2 | Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul |
70279 | Gray | 5,504 | Gray | Val de Gray |
70207 | Échenoz-la-Méline | 3,203 | Vesoul-1 | Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul |
70421 | Port-sur-Saône | 3,039 | Port-sur-Saône | Terres de Saône |
70026 | Arc-lès-Gray | 2,523 | Gray | Val de Gray |
70513 | Vaivre-et-Montoille | 2,406 | Vesoul-1 | Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul |
70447 | Rioz | 2,174 | Rioz | Le Pays Riolais |
70388 | Noidans-lès-Vesoul | 2,030 | Vesoul-1 | Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul |
70122 | Champlitte | 1,761 | Dampierre-sur-Salon | Les Quatre Rivières |
70378 | Navenne | 1,692 | Vesoul-2 | Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul |
70292 | Jussey | 1,648 | Jussey | Les Hauts du Val de Saône |
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