The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is an arrondissement of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Aix-en-Provence.
History
When the Bouches-du-Rhône department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is in the northeast of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. It is bordered to the north by the Vaucluse department, to the east by the Var department, to the southeast by the Marseille arrondissement, to the southwest by the Istres arrondissement and to the northwest by the Arles arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is the second largest arrondissement of the department both in area, , and population (429,436 inhabitants).
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.
There are 9 cantons in the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence and 5 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement:
Aix-en-Provence-1 (1301) Aix-en-Provence-2 (1302) Berre-l'Étang (1306) (partly) Gardanne (1309) Pélissanne (1325) (partly) Salon-de-Provence-1 (1326) (partly) Salon-de-Provence-2 (1327) (partly) Trets (1328) Vitrolles (1329) (partly)
Communes
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence has 44 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Aix-en-Provence (13001) Aurons (13008) Beaurecueil (13012) Bouc-Bel-Air (13015) Cabriès (13019) Charleval (13024) Châteauneuf-le-Rouge (13025) Cornillon-Confoux (13029) Coudoux (13118) Fuveau (13040) Gardanne (13041) Grans (13044) Jouques (13048) La Barben (13009) La Fare-les-Oliviers (13037) La Roque-d'Anthéron (13084) Lambesc (13050) Lançon-Provence (13051) Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (13080) Le Tholonet (13109) Les Pennes-Mirabeau (13071) Meyrargues (13059) Meyreuil (13060) Mimet (13062) Peynier (13072) Peyrolles-en-Provence (13074) Puyloubier (13079) Pélissanne (13069) Rognes (13082) Rousset (13087) Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon (13090) Saint-Cannat (13091) Saint-Estève-Janson (13093) Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde (13095) Saint-Paul-lès-Durance (13099) Salon-de-Provence (13103) Septèmes-les-Vallons (13106) Simiane-Collongue (13107) Trets (13110) Vauvenargues (13111) Velaux (13112) Venelles (13113) Ventabren (13114) Éguilles (13032)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are: