The arrondissement of Pau (French: Arrondissement de Pau, Occitan: Distrito de Pau Basque: Paueko barrutia) is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

[2] Its population is 311,949 (2021), and its area is 2,548.9 km2 (984.1 sq mi).

[3] The communes of the arrondissement of Pau, and their INSEE codes, are:[2] The arrondissement of Pau was created in 1800.

[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 Pau were, as of January 2015:[6]