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Arrondissement of La Trinité

arrondissement of France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ701385 ↗
Source-derived summary

The arrondissement of La Trinité (French: arrondissement de La Trinité) is an arrondissement in the French overseas region and department of Martinique. It has 10 communes. Its population is 73,291 (2021), and its area is 337.6 km2 (130.3 sq mi).

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of La Trinité, and their INSEE codes, are:

History

The arrondissement of La Trinité, containing 10 communes that were previously part of the arrondissement of Fort-de-France, was created in 1965.

Before 2015, the arrondissements of Martinique were subdivided into cantons.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Arrondissement of La Trinité” is arrondissement of France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Arrondissement, Trinité and arrondissement, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 1965, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-09-18. For this dossier, Arrondissement, Trinité and arrondissement is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “arrondissement of France” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q701385. Authority coordinates are 14.738, -60.963. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1965 and 2015.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arrondissement of La Trinité” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.