Arrondissement of Dax

The arrondissement of Dax is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Landes "département". Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Dax.
History.
When the "arrondissements" were created in 1800, Dax was one of them in the Landes department.
Geography.
The "arrondissement" of Dax is in the southwest of the Landes department; it has an area of , and a population of 220,656 inhabitants; its population density is of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north and east by the "arrondissement" of Mont-de-Marsan, to the south by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and to the west by the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean).
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 Dax, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": Côte d'Argent and Pays morcenais tarusate. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Dax has 152 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" in the "arrondissement" with more inhabitants are: