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Lot (department)
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| Coat of arms of the Lot department | |
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| Administration | |
| Department number: | 46 |
| Region: | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Prefecture: | Cahors |
| Subprefectures: | Figeac Gourdon |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 31 |
| Communes: | 340 |
| President of the General Council: | Gérard Miquel |
| Statistics | |
| Population | Ranked 90th |
| -1999 | 160,197 |
| Population density: | 31/km² |
| Land area¹: | 5217 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Lot (Occitan: Òlt) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot River.
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Lot is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Languedoc. In 1808, some of the original southeastern cantons were separated from it to form the department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It originally extended much farther to the south and included the city of Montauban.
Lot is part of the region of Midi-Pyrénées and is surrounded by the department of Corrèze, Cantal, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne, and Dordogne.
For a full list, see Communes of the Lot department. Settlements in the Lot include:
- Cahors - a large town known internationally for its production of Cahors wine
- Frayssinet-le-Gélat - a small village close to Prayssac
- Prayssac - a town of approximately 3,000 residents
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- (French) Prefecture website
- (French) General council website
- (English) Lot Tourism Guide
- (French) Map of the department
- (English) netrando.com Hiking in Lot
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