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**Haute-Vienne**
Haute-Vienne
	Coat of Arms of Haute-Vienne
	Location
Administration
Department number:	87
Region:	Limousin
Prefecture:	Limoges
Subprefectures:	Bellac; Rochechouart
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	42
Communes:	201
President of the General Council:	Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont; PS
Statistics
Population	Ranked 62nd
-1999	353,893
Population density:	64/km2
Land area¹:	5520 km2
	¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. It is one of three departments that together constitute the French region of Limousin.

The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. The other towns in the department each have fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.

[edit] Geography

The source of the Charente River is in the department, in the commune of Chéonnac, near Rochechouart.

The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre.

The three arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department are:

Arrondissement of Bellac, (subprefecture: Bellac) with eight cantons and 63 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 42,687 in 1990 and 40,120 in 1999, a decrease of 6.01%.
Arrondissement of Limoges, (prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department: Limoges) with 28 cantons and 108 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 274,643 in 1990 and 278,439 in 1999, an increase of 1.38%.
Arrondissement of Rochechouart, (subprefecture: Rochechouart) with six cantons and 30 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 36,263 in 1990 and 35,334 in 1999, a decrease of 2.56%.

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