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Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne
	; Department;
	; ; Prefecture building of the Lot-et-Garonne department, in Agen;
;	; ; Coat of arms;
	; ; Coat of arms;
	; ; Location of Lot-et-Garonne in France;
	; Coordinates: 44°20′N 0°30′E / 44.333°N 0.500°E / 44.333; 0.500Coordinates: 44°20′N 0°30′E / 44.333°N 0.500°E / 44.333; 0.500;
Country	; France;
Region	; Nouvelle-Aquitaine;
Prefecture	; Agen;
Subprefectures	; Marmande; Nérac; Villeneuve-sur-Lot;
Government;
• President of the General Council;	; Pierre Camani (Socialist Party)
Area;
• Total	; 5,361 km2 (2,070 sq mi)
Population (2013);
• Total	; 333,180
• Rank	; 70th;
• Density	; 62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	; UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	; UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number	; 47
Arrondissements	; 4;
Cantons	; 21;
Communes	; 319;
	; ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Lot-et-Garonne (French: [lɔt‿e ɡaʁɔn], Occitan: Òlt e Garona) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers.

History

Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original eighty-three departments created on March 4, 1790, as a result of the French Revolution. It was created from part of the province of Guyenne and Gascony; originally the territory of the ancient county of Agenais constituted nearly the whole.

Several of the original southeastern cantons in the arrondissements of Agen and Villeneuve-sur-Lot were separated from it in 1808 to become a part of the newly created department of Tarn-et-Garonne.

Geography

Lot-et-Garonne is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Landes, Gironde, and Dordogne.
The north of the department is composed of limestone hills. Between Lot and Garonne, there is a plateau carved by many valleys. In the west of the department, the Landes forest is planted in sand. It's composed of maritime pines. Between the forest and Agen, there is the Albret, a very hilly country .