¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².
Lot-et-Garonne (Occitan: Òlt e Garona) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers and just north of the sphere of centre of Basque-cultural influence in the North of Spain and South of France.
Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the provinces of Guyenne and Gascogne. Some of the original southeastern cantons were separated from it in 1808 to form the department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
