Arrondissement of Chinon
The arrondissement of Chinon is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Chinon.
 Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire |
| No. of communes | 106 |
| Subprefecture | Chinon |
| Area | 2,296.5 km2 (886.7 sq mi) |
| INSEE code | 371 |
History
When the Indre-et-Loire department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Chinon was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Chinon is the most western of the arrondissements of the Indre-et-Loire department. It is bordered to the north and east by the arrondissement of Tours, to the southeast by the Loches arrondissement, to the west by the Vienne department and to the northwest by the Maine-et-Loire department.
The arrondissement of Chinon is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, 1,694.2 km2 (654.1 sq mi), but the second in population (86,952 inhabitants).[2]
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
The cantons in the arrondissement of Chinon are:
- Chinon (3705)
- Langeais (3708) (partly)
- Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine (3713)
Communes
The arrondissement of Chinon has 106 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]
- Ambillou (37002)
- Anché (37004)
- Antogny-le-Tillac (37005)
- Assay (37007)
- Avoine (37011)
- Avon-les-Roches (37012)
- Avrillé-les-Ponceaux (37013)
- Beaumont-Louestault (37021)
- Beaumont-en-Véron (37022)
- Benais (37024)
- Bourgueil (37031)
- Braslou (37034)
- Braye-sous-Faye (37035)
- Braye-sur-Maulne (37036)
- Brèches (37037)
- Brizay (37040)
- Bueil-en-Touraine (37041)
- Candes-Saint-Martin (37042)
- Cerelles (37047)
- Champigny-sur-Veude (37051)
- Channay-sur-Lathan (37055)
- La Chapelle-sur-Loire (37058)
- Charentilly (37059)
- Château-la-Vallière (37062)
- Chaveignes (37065)
- Chemillé-sur-Dême (37068)
- Chezelles (37071)
- Chinon (37072)
- Chouzé-sur-Loire (37074)
- Cinais (37076)
- Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (37077)
- Cléré-les-Pins (37081)
- Continvoir (37082)
- Couesmes (37084)
- Courcelles-de-Touraine (37086)
- Courcoué (37087)
- Couziers (37088)
- Cravant-les-Côteaux (37089)
- Crissay-sur-Manse (37090)
- Crouzilles (37093)
- Épeigné-sur-Dême (37101)
- Faye-la-Vineuse (37105)
- Gizeux (37112)
- Hommes (37117)
- Huismes (37118)
- L'Île-Bouchard (37119)
- Jaulnay (37121)
- Langeais (37123)
- Lémeré (37125)
- Lerné (37126)
- Ligré (37129)
- Lublé (37137)
- Luzé (37140)
- Maillé (37142)
- Marçay (37144)
- Marcilly-sur-Maulne (37146)
- Marcilly-sur-Vienne (37147)
- Marigny-Marmande (37148)
- Marray (37149)
- Mazières-de-Touraine (37150)
- Neuil (37165)
- Neuillé-Pont-Pierre (37167)
- Neuvy-le-Roi (37170)
- Nouâtre (37174)
- Noyant-de-Touraine (37176)
- Panzoult (37178)
- Parçay-sur-Vienne (37180)
- Pernay (37182)
- Ports (37187)
- Pouzay (37188)
- Pussigny (37190)
- Razines (37191)
- Restigné (37193)
- Richelieu (37196)
- Rillé (37198)
- Rilly-sur-Vienne (37199)
- Rivière (37201)
- La Roche-Clermault (37202)
- Rouziers-de-Touraine (37204)
- Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher (37206)
- Saint-Aubin-le-Dépeint (37207)
- Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt (37210)
- Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais (37213)
- Saint-Épain (37216)
- Saint-Germain-sur-Vienne (37220)
- Saint-Laurent-de-Lin (37223)
- Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine (37226)
- Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil (37228)
- Saint-Paterne-Racan (37231)
- Côteaux-sur-Loire (37232)
- Saint-Roch (37237)
- Savigné-sur-Lathan (37241)
- Savigny-en-Véron (37242)
- Sazilly (37244)
- Semblançay (37245)
- Seuilly (37248)
- Sonzay (37249)
- Souvigné (37251)
- Tavant (37255)
- Theneuil (37256)
- Thizay (37258)
- La Tour-Saint-Gelin (37260)
- Trogues (37262)
- Verneuil-le-Château (37268)
- Villebourg (37274)
- Villiers-au-Bouin (37279)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
| INSEE code |
Commune | Population[5] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37072 | Chinon | 8,073 | Chinon | Chinon, Vienne et Loire |
| 37123 | Langeais | 4,341 | Langeais | Touraine Ouest Val de Loire |
| 37226 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine | 4,328 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine | Touraine Val de Vienne |
| 37031 | Bourgueil | 3,879 | Langeais | Touraine Ouest Val de Loire |
| 37077 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile | 3,444 | Langeais | Touraine Ouest Val de Loire |
| 37022 | Beaumont-en-Véron | 2,712 | Chinon | Chinon, Vienne et Loire |
| 37074 | Chouzé-sur-Loire | 2,090 | Langeais | Touraine Ouest Val de Loire |
| 37196 | Richelieu | 1,789 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine | Touraine Val de Vienne |
| 37011 | Avoine | 1,758 | Chinon | Chinon, Vienne et Loire |
| 37119 | L'Île-Bouchard | 1,638 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine | Touraine Val de Vienne |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique d'Indre-et-Loire". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Département d'Indre-et-Loire (37)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-179 du 18 février 2014 portant délimitation de cantons dans le département d'Indre-et-Loire" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Chinon (371)". Géographie administrative et d’étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
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