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| Coat of Arms of Lot | |
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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. | |
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 departments 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:
Coordinates: 44°35′N 01°35′E / 44.583°N 1.583°E
   | Prefecture website - L'état dans le Lot |
| | netrando.com Hiking in Lot - Hiking in the French Department : Lot |
| | Photographs of the Lot region - Photographs of Lot |
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