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Rhône

*Rôno* (Arpitan)
Rhône Rôno (Arpitan)
Department of France
	Prefecture building of the Rhône department in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Rhône in France
	Coordinates: 45°50′N 04°40′E / 45.833°N 4.667°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Prefecture	Lyon
Subprefectures	Villefranche-sur-Saône
Government
• President of the Departmental Council	Christophe Guilloteau (LR)
Area 1
• Total	2,715 km2 (1,048 sq mi)
• Rank	55th
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number	69D
Arrondissements	2
Cantons	13
Communes	208
	^1 French Land Register data, which excludes estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Rhône (French pronunciation: [ʁon]; Arpitan: Rôno) is a French department located in the east-central administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Rhône, its prefecture is Lyon. Its sole subprefecture is Villefranche-sur-Saône. Including the Lyon Metropolis, it had a population of 1,875,747 in 2019.^[2]

History

The department was created on August 12, 1793, when the former Rhône-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhône and Loire.

Originally, the eastern border of Rhône was the city of Lyon itself, so that the communes immediately east of Lyon belonged to neighboring departments. With the growth of Lyon and the extension of its urban area into communes such as Villeurbanne, the limits of the department were judged impractical as they left the suburbs of Lyon outside of Rhône. Thus, Rhône was enlarged several times to incorporate into it the suburbs of Lyon from neighboring department:

In 1852, four communes from Isère were incorporated into Rhône.^[3]
In 1967, 23 communes of Isère and six communes of Ain were incorporated into Rhône.
In 1971, one commune from Isère was incorporated into Rhône.

With these enlargements, the area of the department increased from 2,791 km² to 3,249 km² (16.4% larger). At the 1999 French census, the original department of Rhône would have had only 1,071,288 inhabitants, which means that the population in the territories added in the last two centuries was 507,581 inhabitants in 1999.

In 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon was separated from the department of Rhône.^[4] Rhône lost 16% of its territory, and 75% of its population.^[5] Lyon, although no longer part of the department, remains its administrative center.

Geography

Rivers include the Rhône and the Saône (which joins the Rhône in Lyon). The neighboring departments are Ain, Isère, Loire and Saône-et-Loire.

Demographics

Population development since 1801 (with Lyon Metropolis) :

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1801	299,390	—
1831	434,429	+1.25%
1841	500,831	+1.43%
1851	574,745	+1.39%
1861	662,493	+1.43%
1872	670,247	+0.11%
1881	741,470	+1.13%
1891	806,737	+0.85%
1901	843,179	+0.44%
1911	915,581	+0.83%
1921	956,566	+0.44%
1931	1,046,028	+0.90%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1936	1,028,379	−0.34%
1946	918,866	−1.12%
1954	966,782	+0.64%
1962	1,116,664	+1.82%
1968	1,325,571	+2.90%
1975	1,429,647	+1.09%
1982	1,445,208	+0.15%
1990	1,508,966	+0.54%
1999	1,578,869	+0.50%
2006	1,669,653	+0.80%
2016	1,835,903	+0.95%

source:^[6]^[7]

Before the Metropolis of Lyon was separated from the department, over 75% of its population lived within the Greater Lyon, which included all of the largest cities of the Rhône department, apart from Villefranche-sur-Saône.

The most populous commune of the new department of Rhône is Villefranche-sur-Saône. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants:^[2]

Commune	Population (2021)
Villefranche-sur-Saône	35,913
Belleville-en-Beaujolais	13,542
Genas	13,483
Brignais	12,388
Tarare	10,428

Politics

The President of the Departmental Council is Christophe Guilloteau, a member of the Republicans (LR).

Current National Assembly Representatives

	Member^[8]	Party
Rhône's 1st constituency	Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi	LFI
Rhône's 2nd constituency	Boris Tavernier	LÉ–EELV
Rhône's 3rd constituency	Marie-Charlotte Garin	LÉ–EELV
Rhône's 4th constituency	Sandrine Runel	PS
Rhône's 5th constituency	Blandine Brocard	MoDem
Rhône's 6th constituency	Gabriel Amard	LFI
Rhône's 7th constituency	Alexandre Vincendet	LR
Rhône's 8th constituency	Jonathan Géry	RN
Rhône's 9th constituency	Alexandre Portier	LR
Rhône's 10th constituency	Thomas Gassilloud	RE
Rhône's 11th constituency	Jean-Luc Fugit	RE
Rhône's 12th constituency	Cyrille Isaac-Sibille	MoDem
Rhône's 13th constituency	Tiffany Joncour	RN
Rhône's 14th constituency	Idir Boumertit	LFI