Arrondissement of Grasse

The arrondissement of Grasse is an arrondissement of France, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Grasse.

Grasse
Arrondissement
Location within the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
No. of communes	62
Subprefecture	Grasse
Area	1,231.2 km2 (475.4 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	568,675
INSEE code	061

History

When the Alpes-Maritimes department was created on 1793, Grasse was part of the Var department. It became an arrondissement of the Alpes-Maritimes department in 1860.^[2]

Geography

The arrondissement of Grasse is the most southern of the Alpes-Maritimes department. It is bordered to the north by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, to the east by the Nice arrondissement, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the west by the Var department.

The arrondissement of Grasse is the smallest in area of the two arrondissements of the department, 1,231.2 km² (475.4 sq mi), but the one with a higher population (560,045 inhabitants).

Composition

Cantons

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,^[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Grasse, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: Nice-3 and Vence. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

INSEE code	Canton	Grasse	Nice	Total
0601	Antibes-1	1 + part of Antibes		1 + part of Antibes
0602	Antibes-2	part of Antibes		part of Antibes
0603	Antibes-3	1 + part of Antibes		1 + part of Antibes
0605	Cagnes-sur-Mer-1	part of Cagnes-sur-Mer		part of Cagnes-sur-Mer
0606	Cagnes-sur-Mer-2	2 + part of Cagnes-sur-Mer		2 + part of Cagnes-sur-Mer
0607	Cannes-1	part of Cannes + part of Le Cannet		part of Cannes + part of Le Cannet
0608	Cannes-2	part of Cannes		part of Cannes
0609	Le Cannet	1 + part of Le Cannet		1 + part of Le Cannet
0611	Grasse-1	18 + part of Grasse		18 + part of Grasse
0612	Grasse-2	1 + part of Grasse		1 + part of Grasse
0613	Mandelieu-la-Napoule	5		5
0617	Nice-3	3	part of Nice	3 + part of Nice
0625	Valbonne	11 + part of Antibes		11 + part of Antibes
0626	Vence	10	37	47
0627	Villeneuve-Loubet	4		4

Communes

The arrondissement of Grasse has 62 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː^[4]

1. Aiglun (06001)
2. Amirat (06002)
3. Andon (06003)
4. Antibes (06004)
5. Auribeau-sur-Siagne (06007)
6. Biot (06018)
7. Bouyon (06022)
8. Briançonnet (06024)
9. Bézaudun-les-Alpes (06017)
10. Cabris (06026)
11. Cagnes-sur-Mer (06027)
12. Caille (06028)
13. Cannes (06029)
14. Carros (06033)
15. Caussols (06037)
16. Châteauneuf-Grasse (06038)
17. Cipières (06041)
18. Collongues (06045)
19. Conségudes (06047)
20. Courmes (06049)
21. Coursegoules (06050)
22. Escragnolles (06058)
23. Gars (06063)
24. Gattières (06064)
25. Gourdon (06068)
26. Grasse (06069)
27. Gréolières (06070)
28. La Colle-sur-Loup (06044)
29. La Gaude (06065)
30. La Roquette-sur-Siagne (06108)
31. Le Bar-sur-Loup (06010)
32. Le Broc (06025)
33. Le Cannet (06030)
34. Le Mas (06081)
35. Le Rouret (06112)
36. Le Tignet (06140)
37. Les Ferres (06061)
38. Les Mujouls (06087)
39. Mandelieu-la-Napoule (06079)
40. Mouans-Sartoux (06084)
41. Mougins (06085)
42. Opio (06089)
43. Peymeinade (06095)
44. Pégomas (06090)
45. Roquefort-les-Pins (06105)
46. Roquestéron-Grasse (06107)
47. Saint-Auban (06116)
48. Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne (06118)
49. Saint-Jeannet (06122)
50. Saint-Laurent-du-Var (06123)
51. Saint-Paul (06128)
52. Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey (06130)
53. Sallagriffon (06131)
54. Spéracèdes (06137)
55. Séranon (06134)
56. Théoule-sur-Mer (06138)
57. Tourrettes-sur-Loup (06148)
58. Valbonne (06152)
59. Valderoure (06154)
60. Vallauris (06155)
61. Vence (06157)
62. Villeneuve-Loubet (06161)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

INSEE code	Commune	Population[5] (2014)	Canton	Intercommunality
06004	Antibes	75,731	Antibes-1, Antibes-2 Antibes-3 and Valbonne	Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis
06029	Cannes	73,744	Cannes-1 and Cannes-2	Communauté d'agglomération Cannes Pays de Lérins
06069	Grasse	50,409	Grasse-1 and Grasse-2	Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse
06027	Cagnes-sur-Mer	47,811	Cagnes-sur-Mer-1 and Cagnes-sur-Mer-2	Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
06030	Le Cannet	42,454	Cannes-1 and Le Cannet	Communauté d'agglomération Cannes Pays de Lérins
06123	Saint-Laurent-du-Var	29,067	Cagnes-sur-Mer-2	Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
06155	Vallauris	26,302	Antibes-1	Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis
06079	Mandelieu-la-Napoule	22,696	Mandelieu-la-Napoule	Communauté d'agglomération Cannes Pays de Lérins
06157	Vence	18,536	Vence	Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
06085	Mougins	18,391	Le Cannet	Communauté d'agglomération Cannes Pays de Lérins

Related pages

• Arrondissements of the Alpes-Maritimes department
• List of arrondissements of France

References

1. "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
2. "Historique des Alpes-Maritimes". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 5 October 2016.
3. "Décret n° 2014-227 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. "Arrondissement de Grasse (061)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
5. "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 17 July 2017.

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