When the Haute-Marne department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Langres was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
The arrondissement of Langres is in the southern part of the Haute-Marne department. It is bordered to the north by the Chaumontarrondissement, to the northeast by the Vosges department, to the southeast by the Haute-Saône department, and to the south and west by the Côte-d'Or department.
The arrondissement of Langres is the second largest arrondissement of the department, with an area 2,162.9 km2 (835.1 sq mi), but the one with fewest inhabitants (44,332 inhabitants) and a population density of 20.5 inhabitants/km².[3]
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Langres, there are five cantons and two of them do not have all their "communes" in the arrondissement:
↑"Arrondissement de Langres (522)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 9 July 2017.