Arrondissement of Mirande

The arrondissement of Mirande is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Gers "département" in the Occitanie region. Its capital is the city of Mirande.
History.
When the "arrondissements" were created on 17 February 1800, Mirande was one of them in the Gers department.
Geography.
It is the southernmost and the smallest of the "arrondissements" of the department, with an area of . It is also the "arrondissement" with fewer people living there, with 37,945 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north by the Auch and Condom "arrondissements", to the southeast by the Haute-Garonne department, to the south by the Hautes-Pyrénées and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments, and to the west by the Landes 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 Mirande, there are two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": Astarac-Gimone and Fezensac. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Mirande has 150 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" in the "arrondissement" with more inhabitants are: