Vienne department

Vienne
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
prefecture	Poitiers
Sub-prefecture (s)	Châtellerault Montmorillon
Residents	436,876 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	62 inhabitants per km²
surface	6,990.47 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	7th
Cantons	19th
Communities	266
President of the Department Council	Bruno Belin
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-86
Location of the department of Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The Vienne department [ vjɛn ] is the French department with the atomic number 86. It is in the west of the country in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is named after the river Vienne named.

geography

The Vienne department borders on the Maine-et-Loire and Indre-et-Loire departments in the north, the Indre department in the east, the Haute-Vienne department in the southeast, the Charente department in the south and the Deux department in the west -Sèvres .

The eponymous Vienne flows through the department from south to north. Its left tributary, the Clain, crosses the departmental capital Poitiers and flows into the Vienne at the second largest city, Châtellerault . The Gartempe also traverses the east of the department in a northerly direction and flows into the Creuse at La Roche-Posay , which then forms the border with the Indre department before it flows into the Vienne. The extreme south-west of the department is drained by the Charente by merging from the south from the Charente department and flowing back into the same department in a U-shaped arch.

history

It was formed on March 4, 1790 from part of the Poitou Province and part of the Saumurois Province . From 1960 to 2015 it belonged to the Poitou-Charentes region , which in 2016 became part of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region.

coat of arms

Blazon : A silver wave pole in red , covered with five (2: 1: 2) black grooved, golden castles with two double-tinned side towers, a central raised tinned gate tower, black arched windows and an open golden portal.

Cities

The most populous municipalities in the Vienne department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Poitiers	88.291	Poitiers
Châtellerault	31,840	Châtellerault
Buxerolles	10,023	Poitiers
Jaunay-Marigny	7,530	Poitiers
Saint-Benoît	7.233	Poitiers
Chauvigny	7,049	Montmorillon
Loudun	6,747	Châtellerault
Migné auxances	6,071	Poitiers
Montmorillon	5,954	Montmorillon
Naintré	5,911	Châtellerault

Administrative division

The Vienne department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 19 cantons and 266 communes :

Municipalities and arrondissements in the Vienne department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Châtellerault	6th	92	108,958	1,982.85	55	861
Montmorillon	5	91	66,892	2,876.07	23	862
Poitiers	14th	83	261.026	2,131.55	122	863
Vienne department	19th	266	436,876	6,990.47	62	86

See also:

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

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lavienne86.fr, accessed on May 4, 2015.

Coordinates: 46 ° 35 '  N , 0 ° 20'  E