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Lot-et-Garonne
Coat of arms of the Lot-et-Garonne department
Location
Administration
Department number:47
Region: Aquitaine
Prefecture:Agen
Subprefectures:Marmande
Nérac
Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Arrondissements:4
Cantons:40
Communes:319
President of the General Council:Michel Diefenbacher
Statistics
PopulationRanked 72nd
 -1999305,380
Population density:57/km
Land area:5361 km
French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km.
Lot-et-Garonne (Occitan: Ã’lt e Garona) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers.

History

Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the provinces of Guyenne and Gascogne. Some of the original southeastern cantons were separated from it in 1808 to form the department of Tarn-et-Garonne.

Geography

Lot-et-Garonne is part of the current region of Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Landes, Gironde, and Dordogne.

Economy

Food-processing, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals are all major industries of the department.

Demographics

The inhabitants of the department are called Lot-et-Garonnais.

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Ain • Aisne • Allier • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence • Hautes-Alpes • Alpes-Maritimes • Ardche • Ardennes • Arige • Aube • Aude • Aveyron • Bouches-du-Rhne • Calvados • Cantal • Charente • Charente-Maritime • Cher • Corrze • Corse-du-Sud • Haute-Corse • Cte-d'Or • Ctes-d'Armor • Creuse • Dordogne • Doubs • Drme • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistre • Gard • Haute-Garonne • Gers • Gironde • Hrault • Ille-et-Vilaine • Indre • Indre-et-Loire • Isre • Jura • Landes • Loir-et-Cher • Loire • Haute-Loire • Loire-Atlantique • Loiret • Lot • Lot-et-Garonne • Lozre • Maine-et-Loire • Manche • Marne • Haute-Marne • Mayenne • Meurthe-et-Moselle • Meuse • Morbihan • Moselle • Nivre • Nord • Oise • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dme • Pyrnes-Atlantiques • Hautes-Pyrnes • Pyrnes-Orientales • Bas-Rhin • Haut-Rhin • Rhne • Haute-Sane • Sane-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Haute-Savoie • Paris • Seine-Maritime • Seine-et-Marne • Yvelines • Deux-Svres • Somme • Tarn • Tarn-et-Garonne • Var • Vaucluse • Vende • Vienne • Haute-Vienne • Vosges • Yonne • Territoire de Belfort • Essonne • Hauts-de-Seine • Seine-Saint-Denis • Val-de-Marne • Val-d'Oise • Overseas departments and territories: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Runion
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Commune of
Agen

Location
Longitude 00° 37' 10" E
Latitude 44° 12' 15" N

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Arrondissement Agen
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Commune of
Marmande

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Longitude 0° 09' 58 E
Latitude 44° 30' 05 N

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Arrondissement Marmande
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Commune of
Nérac

The castle of Nérac

Location
Longitude 00° 20' 25" E
Latitude 44° 08' 13" N

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The 4 arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department are:
  1. Arrondissement of Agen, (prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department: Agen) with 12 cantons and 71 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 102,162 in 1990, and was 105,380 in 1999, an increase of 3.15%.

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The following is a list of the 43 cantons of the Lot-et-Garonne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Agen (13 cantons)

  • Agen
  • Agen-Centre
  • Agen-Nord
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  • Agen-Ouest
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The following is a list of the 319 communes of the Lot-et-Garonne département, in France.

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only, excluding overseas departments and territories, as well as former French colonies and protectorates. Algeria and its départements, although they were an integral part of metropolitan France until 1962, are not included in the figures.
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Rank Department Population (2006) Size (km²) Density (pop./km²)
2 Paris 2,164,000 105 20,605
4 Rhône 1,646,000 3,249 507
6 Seine-Saint-Denis 1,459,000 236 6,182
8 Yvelines 1,395,000 2,284 611
10 Val-de-Marne 1,279,000 245 5,220
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estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.[1] Estuaries are often associated with high rates of biological productivity. An estuary is where the river meets the sea.
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Official status
Official language of: Officially recognised in Catalonia, Spain, as Occitan.
Regulated by: Conselh de la Lenga Occitana
Language codes
ISO 639-1: oc
ISO 639-2: oci
ISO 639-3: oci

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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Origin Cévennes
Mouth Garonne
Basin countries France
Length 481 km
Source elevation 1,499 m

Avg. discharge 180 m³/s
Basin area 11,254 km² The Lot, originally the Olt (Occitan: Òlt
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Origin Pyrenees
Mouth Gironde estuary,
Atlantic Ocean
Basin countries France, Spain
Length 575 km
Source elevation 1,872 m

Basin area 84,811 km² *
* including Dordogne The Garonne (in French: Garonne
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