Arrondissement of Albi

The arrondissement of Albi is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Tarn "département". Its capital, and of the department, is the city of Albi.
History.
When the "arrondissements" were created in 1800, Albi was one of them in the Tarn department.
Geography.
It is the northernmost of the "arrondissements" of the department, with an area of , the largest in area of the department. It has 190,101 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north by the Tarn-et-Garonne (Occitanie) department, to the west by the Aveyron (Occitanie) department, to the south by the "arrondissement" of Castres and to the south by the Haute-Garonne (Occitanie) 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". That is the case of the Le Haut Dadou and the Les Portes du Tarn cantons where some "communes" are in the "arrondissement" of Albi and others in the "arrondissement" of Castres. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Albi has 169 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are: