Its INSEE code is 482 and its capital city, and prefecture of the department, is Mende.

Its population is 63,491 (2021), and its area is 3,479.4 km2 (1,343.4 sq mi).

[2] The only important city is Mende with 12,318 people living there in 2019.

[5] As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements.

The cantons of the arrondissement of Mende were, as of January 2015:[6]