Charente department

Charente
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
prefecture	Angoulême
Sub-prefecture (s)	Cognac Confolens
Residents	352,335 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	59 inhabitants per km²
surface	5,955.99 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	9
Cantons	19th
Communities	366
President of the Department Council	François Bonneau
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-16
Location of the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The Charente [ ʃaʀãt ] is the French department of 16 with the ordinal number It is the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the west of the country and after the river Charente named.

geography

The Charente department borders the Deux-Sèvres and Vienne departments in the north, the Haute-Vienne department in the east, the Dordogne department in the southeast and the Charente-Maritime department in the west .

The most important river is the eponymous Charente , which reaches the department from the north, turns west in the centrally located capital Angoulême and leaves the department at Cognac . The extreme northeast of the department is drained by the Vienne , the south by the Dronne , which partly forms the border with the Dordogne department.

history

The Charente department was created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It largely corresponds to the old province of Angoumois .

From 1960 to 2015 it belonged to the Poitou-Charentes region , which in 2016 became part of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region.

Evidence of the Stone Age settlement can be found in the necropolis of Boixe and in the necropolis of Édon .

Cities

The most populous communes in the Charente department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Angoulême	41,740	Angoulême
cognac	18,825	cognac
Soyaux	9,351	Angoulême
La Couronne	7,732	Angoulême
Ruelle-sur-Touvre	7,201	Angoulême
Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente	7,274	Angoulême
Gond-Pontouvre	6,010	Angoulême
L'Isle-d'Espagnac	5,604	Angoulême
Champniers	5,151	Angoulême

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Charente department

The Charente department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 19 cantons and 366 communes :

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Angoulême	10	115	181.124	1,867.58	97	161
cognac	6th	110	99,736	1,670.83	60	162
Confolens	4th	141	71,475	2,417.58	30th	163
Charente department	19th	366	352,335	5,955.99	59	16

See also:

• List of communes in the Charente department
• List of cantons in the Charente department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Charente department

Web links

Commons : Département Charente  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Charente department (French)
• Prefecture of the Charente department (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cg16.fr/le-departement/lassemblee-departementale/organigramme-des-elus/ accessed on May 3, 20153

Coordinates: 45 ° 38 '  N , 0 ° 8'  E