Pamiers
Arrondissement
Location within the region Occitanie
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Ariège
No. of communes	91
Subprefecture	Pamiers
Area	1,052.2 km2 (406.3 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	64,972
INSEE code	092

The arrondissement of Pamiers is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Ariège département. Its capital is the city of Pamiers.

When the Ariège department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Pamiers was part of that original department, but it was eliminated in 1926. In 1942, Pamiers was made again an arrondissement.^[2]

The arrondissement of Pamiers is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Ariège department. It has the Haute-Garonne department to the west and north, the Aude department to the east, the Arrondissement of Foix to the south and the Saint-Girons arrondissement to the southwest.

It is the smallest of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 1,315 square kilometres (508 square miles),^[3] and the one with more people living in it with 73,702 inhabitants and a density of 56.0 inhabitants/km².^[4]

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,^[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Pamiers, there are 5 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement: Arize-Lèze, Mirepoix, Pamiers-1, Pamiers-2 and Portes d'Ariège as can be seen in the following table:

The arrondissement of Pamiers has 115 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):^[6]

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

• Arrondissements of the Ariège department
• Communes of the Ariège department

43°07′N 1°37′E / 43.117°N 1.617°E / 43.117; 1.617