Saint-Girons (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒiʁɔ̃] ; Languedocien: Sent Gironç) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.
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Couseransʁɑ̃]; Gascon: Coserans [kuzeˈɾas]) is a former county of France located in the Pyrenees mountains. Today Couserans makes up the western half of the Ariège département, around the towns of Saint-Girons and Saint-Lizier. A small part of Couserans is also in the extreme south of Haute-Garonne, just across the border from Ariège.
Couserans has a land area of 1,162 km². At the 1999 census there were 21,260 inhabitants on the territory of the former province of Couserans, which means a density of only 18 inhabitants per km², one of the lowest densities in western Europe. The only urban area is Saint-Girons, with 9,484 inhabitants in 1999.
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The arrondissement of Saint-Girons is an arrondissement of France in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region. It has 121 communes. Its population is 41,017, and its area is 2,019.3 km2.
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The canton of Couserans Ouest is an administrative division of the Ariège department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Girons.
It consists of the following communes:
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The canton of Portes du Couserans is an administrative division of the Ariège department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Lizier.
It consists of the following communes:
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The former French Catholic diocese of Couserans existed perhaps from the fifth century to the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century. It covered the former province of Couserans, in south-west France. Its episcopal seat was in Saint-Lizier, a small town to the west of Foix. It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Auch.