Corrèze department

Corrèze
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
prefecture	Grommet
Sub-prefecture (s)	Brive-la-Gaillarde Ussel
Residents	241,464 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	41 inhabitants per km²
surface	5,855.61 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	10
Cantons	19th
Communities	280
President of the Department Council	Pascal Coste
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-19
Location of the department of Corrèze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The Correze [ kɔʀɛːz ] ( Occitan Corresa ) is the French department of 19 with the ordinal number It is the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the center of the country and after the river Corrèze named.

geography

The Correze borders in the northwest of the department of Haute-Vienne , in the north of the Creuse , in the northeast of the Puy-de-Dôme , in the southeast on the Cantal , on the south by the department of Lot and the west by the department Dordogne .

The department is located in the northwest of the Massif Central . The northeast of the department is part of the Plateau de Millevaches with Mont Bessou as the highest point of the Limousin . In the Plateau de Millevaches rises the eponymous Corrèze , which flows through the department in a south-westerly direction and flows into the Vézère as a left tributary near the capital Brive-la-Gaillarde in the south-west . The most important river is the Dordogne , which forms part of the eastern border with the Puy-de-Dôme and Cantal departments and then cuts through the Corrèze department in the southeast.

history

It was formed on March 4, 1790 from part of the Limousin Province . It also belonged to the Limousin region from 1960 to 2015 , which became part of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region in 2016 .

coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms is quartered .

• Field one in gold two running red lions
• Field two is red and gold
• Field three in red, four golden diagonal bars
• Field four in gold three (2.1) red-armored and also tongued blue lions

Symbolism: Leo = Aquitaine

Cities

The most populous communes in the Corrèze department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Brive-la-Gaillarde	46,916	Brive-la-Gaillarde
Grommet	14,836	Grommet
Ussel	9,736	Ussel
Malemort	8,036	Brive-la-Gaillarde

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Corrèze department

The Corrèze department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 19 cantons and 280 communes :

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Brive-la-Gaillarde	11	96	128,685	1,471.09	87	191
Grommet	9	104	71.009	2,363.66	30th	192
Ussel	5	80	41,770	2,020.86	21st	193
Corrèze department	19th	280	241.464	5,855.61	41	19th

See also:

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

Web links

Commons : Corrèze department  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Corrèze department (French)
• Prefecture of the Corrèze department (French)
• Homepage of the official Corrèze tourism website (German)
• Photos of the villages and lakes (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.correze.fr/fr/correze-et-institution/le-president/ses-missions/ accessed on May 6, 2015

Coordinates: 45 ° 20 '  N , 1 ° 53'  E