Tarn-et-Garonne

Tarn-et-Garonne
Coat of Arms of Tarn-et-Garonne
Location
Administration
Department number:	82
Region:	Midi-Pyrénées
Prefecture:	Montauban
Subprefectures:	Castelsarrasin
Arrondissements:	2
Cantons:	30
Communes:	195
President of the General Council:	Jean-Michel Baylet
Statistics
Population	Ranked 86th
-1999	206,034
Population density:	55/km2
Land area¹:	3718 km2
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Tarn-et-Garonne is a French department in the southwest of France.

History

The department was created on November 4, 1808 during the First French Empire by a decision of Napoleon I. It was formed out of territories belonging to neighboring areas. More than half of the territory was taken from the Lot (including Montauban and Moissac), over one-third was taken from Haute-Garonne (including Castelsarrasin), and the rest from the department of Lot-et-Garonne, Gers, and Aveyron.

Geography

Tarn-et-Garonne constitutes part of the Midi-Pyrénées region. It borders the departments of Lot, Aveyron, Tarn, Haute-Garonne, Gers, and Lot-et-Garonne.

See also

• Cantons of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
• Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
• Arrondissements of the Tarn-et-Garonne department

External links

• (French) Prefecture of Tarn-et-Garonne website
• (French) General council of Tarn-et-Garonne website
• (French) Arkheia History Review of Tarn-et-Garonne website

It appeared in the film Charlotte Gray

Coordinates: 44°00′N 01°20′E / 44°N 1.333°E / 44; 1.333

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