Arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde

The arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde is an arrondissement of France, in the Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Brive-la-Gaillarde (or "Brive" for short).
History.
When the Corrèze department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Brive-la-Gaillarde was part of that original department.
Geography.
It is the southernmost of the "arrondissements" of the department with an area of . It has 130,034 inhabitants (2014) and a density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" of Brive-la-Gaillarde is in the southeastern part of department and is bordered to the north by the Haute-Vienne department, to the northeast and east by the "arrondissement" of Tulle, to the south by the Lot department and to the west by the Dordogne department.
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 Brive-la-Gaillarde, only two cantons do not have all their "communes" in the "arrondissement": (Midi corrézien and Uzerche). The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Brive-la-Gaillarde has 97 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The "communes" in the "arrondissement" with more inhabitants are: