Last modified: 2021-06-26 by ivan sache
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Code: 46
Region: Occitanie (Midi-Pyrénées until 2014)
Traditional province:
Guyenne and Gascony
Bordering departments: Aveyron,
Cantal,
Corrèze,
Dordogne,
Lot-et-Garonne,
Tarn-et-Garonne
Area: 5,217 km2
Population (2016): 173,347 inhabitants
Préfecture: Cahors
Sous-préfectures: Figeac, Gourdon
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 17 cantons, 313 municipalities.
The department is named after river Lot (480 km),
a tributary to the Garonne.
On 4 November 1808, the cantons of Bourg-de-Visa, Caussade, Caylus, Lafrançaise, Lauzerte, Moissac, Molières, Monclar-de-Quercy, Montauban, Montpezat-de-Quercy and Nègrepelisse were transferred from the department of Lot, which lost nearly one fourth of its territory, to the new department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
Ivan Sache, 12 April 2019