What you need to know about the Gers department
Here is department 32 of France, it is the Gers department, also part of Occitanie, the same region where the Haute-Garonne department is located. Its location is in the southwestern section of the country.
The name Gers also comes from a river that runs through the said department in its center. The inhabitants of the department currently number 191,377 and are called Gersois. With the area of department 32 being 6,257 km2, the population density per km2 is then 31. Therefore, the Gers department is the 90th largest department in the country.
Formerly, this department was one of the first to be created and dates back to the old French Revolution of 1790, that is, 232 years ago. The territories it currently occupies are the former provinces of Gascony and the province of Guyenne.
The capital and prefecture of the said department 32 is the prefecture of Auch, its sub-prefectures are Mirande and Condom. Department 32 is divided into 3 arrondissements, 17 cantons, and 461 communes.
What are the neighboring departments of the Gers department?
So, the neighbors of department 32 which is Gers are the departments of Haute-Garonne, the Tarn-et-Garonne department, the Hautes-Pyrénées department, the Landes department, and finally, the Pyrénées department.
What is the climate like in the Gers department?
The climate of the Gers department is strongly affected by its geographical position which is close to the Atlantic coast and the Pyrenees mountains. Thus, the climate can be variable and there will even probably be showers and rains that can occur occasionally.
In the northern section of the department, the climate is a bit dry because it is an area far from the mountains and the coast. Throughout Gers, there are cold winter periods, but overall, the climate is mild. On the other hand, the summer periods are dry and hot and temperatures frequently reach 35 °C, or even higher.
Regarding the amount of rainfall, it can reach annually 900 mm in the southwest section and in the northeast section (namely Auch, Condom, and Lectoure), the rainfall is 700 mm annually. Regarding sunshine durations, they can reach 1950 hours per year and the summers are both hot and dry. Gers is moreover one of the hottest departments in France.
What are the most important cities in the Gers department?
We have ranked these cities by order of population density per km2, so here are the most populated cities in the Gers department:
- Auch
- L’Isle-Jourdain
- Eauze
- Mirande
- Gimont
- Condom
- Fleurance
- Lectoure
- Vic-Fezensac
- Pavie
What are the largest communes in the Gers department?
We based this ranking by order of communes with the largest areas, so here are the largest communes of Gers:
- Condom
- Auch
- Eauze
- Cazaubon
- Barran
- Lectoure
- L’Isle-Jourdain
- Montréal
- Vic-Fezensac
- Montesquiou
We based this ranking on the order of communes with the highest number of inhabitants per km2, so here are the most populated communes in the Gers department:
- Auch
- L’Isle-Jourdain
- Eauze
- Lectoure
- Gimont
- Condom
- Fleurance
- Mirande
- Vic-Fezensac
- Pavie
