Arrondissement of Grasse

The arrondissement of Grasse is an arrondissement of France, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Grasse.
History.
When the Alpes-Maritimes department was created on 1793, Grasse was part of the Var department. It became an "arrondissement" of the Alpes-Maritimes department in 1860.
Geography.
The "arrondissement" of Grasse is the most southern of the Alpes-Maritimes department. It is bordered to the north by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, to the east by the Nice "arrondissement", to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the west by the Var department.
The "arrondissement" of Grasse is the smallest in area of the two "arrondissements" of the department, , but the one with a higher population (560,045 inhabitants).
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 Grasse, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": Nice-3 and Vence. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Grasse has 62 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are: