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Corse-du-Sud (; , Pumonte or Pumonti ; ) is (as of 2019) an administrative department of France, consisting of the southern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged with that of Haute-Corse on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity of Corsica, with territorial elections coinciding with the dissolution of the separate council. Although its administrative powers were ceded to the new territorial collectivity, it remains an administrative department in its own right. In 2019, it had a population of 158,507. Populations légales 2019: 2A Corse-du-Sud, INSEE
On 6 February 1998, Corse-du-Sud's prefect Claude Érignac was assassinated in Ajaccio. The Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna was eventually convicted of the crime.
On 6 July 2003 a referendum rejected increased autonomy by a small majority, with 50.98 percent voting against and 49.02 percent for. This was a major setback for the French Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to use Corsica as the first step in his decentralization programme.
On 1 January 2018, Corse-du-Sud's administrative powers were partly ceded to the new territorial collectivity of Corsica.
| Ajaccio | 71,361 |
| Porto-Vecchio | 11,132 |
| Bastelicaccia | 4,124 |
| Corse-du-Sud's 1st constituency | Jean-Jacques Ferrara | The Republicans | |
| Corse-du-Sud's 2nd constituency | Paul-André Colombani | Pè a Corsica |
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