Haute-Vienne
Coat of arms of the Haute-Vienne department
Location
Administration
Department number:	87
Region:	Limousin
Prefecture:	Limoges
Subprefectures:	Bellac Rochechouart
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	42
Communes:	201
President of the General Council:	Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont PS
Statistics
Population	Ranked 62nd
-1999	353,893
Population density:	64/km²
Land area¹:	5520 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. It is one of three departments which together, constitute the French region of Limousin.

The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. All other towns in the department have less than 20,000 inhabitants.

Geography

The source of the Charente River is in the department, near Rochechouart.

The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne, Indre.

Arrondissements

The 3 arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department are:

1. Arrondissement of Bellac, (subprefecture: Bellac) with 8 cantons and 63 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 42,687 in 1990, and was 40,120 in 1999, a decrease of 6.01%.
2. Arrondissement of Limoges, (prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department: Limoges) with 28 cantons and 108 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 274,643 in 1990, and was 278,439 in 1999, an increase of 1.38%.
3. Arrondissement of Rochechouart, (subprefecture: Rochechouart) with 6 cantons and 30 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 36,263 in 1990, and was 35,334 in 1999, a decrease of 2.56%.

See also

• Cantons of the Haute-Vienne department
• Communes of the Haute-Vienne department
• Arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department

External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website

Departments of France

Ain • Aisne • Allier • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence • Hautes-Alpes • Alpes-Maritimes • Ardèche • Ardennes • Ariège • Aube • Aude • Aveyron • Bouches-du-Rhône • Calvados • Cantal • Charente • Charente-Maritime • Cher • Corrèze • Corse-du-Sud • Haute-Corse • Côte-d'Or • Côtes-d'Armor • Creuse • Dordogne • Doubs • Drôme • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistère • Gard • Haute-Garonne • Gers • Gironde • Hérault • Ille-et-Vilaine • Indre • Indre-et-Loire • Isère • Jura • Landes • Loir-et-Cher • Loire • Haute-Loire • Loire-Atlantique • Loiret • Lot • Lot-et-Garonne • Lozère • Maine-et-Loire • Manche • Marne • Haute-Marne • Mayenne • Meurthe-et-Moselle • Meuse • Morbihan • Moselle • Nièvre • Nord • Oise • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dôme • Pyrénées-Atlantiques • Hautes-Pyrénées • Pyrénées-Orientales • Bas-Rhin • Haut-Rhin • Rhône • Haute-Saône • Saône-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Haute-Savoie • Paris • Seine-Maritime • Seine-et-Marne • Yvelines • Deux-Sèvres • Somme • Tarn • Tarn-et-Garonne • Var • Vaucluse • Vendée • Vienne • Haute-Vienne • Vosges • Yonne • Territoire de Belfort • Essonne • Hauts-de-Seine • Seine-Saint-Denis • Val-de-Marne • Val-d'Oise 

Overseas departments: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Réunion

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