Arrondissement of Rodez

The arrondissement of Rodez is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Aveyron "département" in the Occitanie region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Rodez.
History.
When the "arrondissements" were created in 1800, Rodez was one of them in the Aveyron department.
Geography.
It is the most northern of the "arrondissements" of the department with an area of , the largest in area, and the most populated of the department with 143,841 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north by the Cantal (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) department, to the east by the Lozère (Occitanie) department, to the southwest and to the south by the "arrondissement" of Millau, and to the west by the Tarn (Occitanie) department and by the "arrondissement" of Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
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".
In the "arrondissement" of Rodez, there are only four cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": Aveyron et Tarn, Enne et Alzou, Lot et Dourdou and Raspes et Lévezou. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Rodez has 127 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are: