Artigat is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

The D278 road comes from the D26 on the western border of the commune and goes east through the village to join the D36 south-west of Saint-Michel.

The commune has extensive forests covering about 40% of the land area with the rest farmland.

[3] [3] Until the French Revolution, the Parish of Artigat (with Bajou), as with those of Pailhès, Lanoux, Castéras, Gabre, Aigues-Juntes, Montégut-Plantaurel, Cazeaux, Artix, Saint-Bauzeil, Benagues, Saint-Victor-Rouzaud, Madière, Saint-Michel, Lescousse, Saint-Martin-d'Oydes, and Esplas formed an enclave of Languedoc.

List of Successive Mayors[5] The inhabitants of the commune are known as Artigatois or Artigatoises in French.