Arrondissement of Issoudun
Issoudun | |
|---|---|
 Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Department | Indre |
| No. of communes | 49 |
| Subprefecture | Issoudun |
| Area | 1,182.3 km2 (456.5 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 33,437 |
| INSEE code | 364 |
The arrondissement of Issoudun is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Issoudun.
History
[change | change source]When the Indre department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Issoudun was part of that original department.[2]
On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Issoudun was eliminated but in 1942 it was made again an arrondissement.[2]
Geography
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Issoudun is in the northeast of the Indre department. It is the smallest arrondissement of the department in area, with 1,182.3 km2 (456.5 sq mi), but the second in population, with 34,964 inhabitants.
It is bordered to the north by the Indre-et-Loire department, to the east by the Cher department, to the south by the arrondissement of Arrondissement of La Châtre and to west the arrondissement of Châteauroux.
Composition
[change | change source]Cantons
[change | change source]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 following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
| N° | Canton | Le Blanc | Châteauroux | La Châtre | Issoudun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3601 | Ardentes | 9 | 3 | 12 | ||
| 3608 | La Châtre | 26 | 8 | 34 | ||
| 3609 | Issoudun | 6 | 6 | |||
| 3610 | Levroux | 12 | 22 | 34 | ||
| 3613 | Valençay | 19 | 10 | 29 |
Communes
[change | change source]The arrondissement of Issoudun has 49 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]
- Aize (36002)
- Ambrault (36003)
- Anjouin (36004)
- Bagneux (36011)
- Bommiers (36019)
- Les Bordes (36021)
- Brives (36027)
- Buxeuil (36029)
- Chabris (36034)
- La Champenoise (36037)
- La Chapelle-Saint-Laurian (36041)
- Chouday (36052)
- Condé (36059)
- Diou (36065)
- Dun-le-Poëlier (36068)
- Fontenay (36075)
- Giroux (36083)
- Guilly (36085)
- Issoudun (36088)
- Liniez (36097)
- Lizeray (36098)
- Luçay-le-Libre (36102)
- Menetou-sur-Nahon (36115)
- Ménétréols-sous-Vatan (36116)
- Meunet-Planches (36121)
- Meunet-sur-Vatan (36122)
- Migny (36125)
- Neuvy-Pailloux (36140)
- Orville (36147)
- Paudy (36152)
- Poulaines (36162)
- Pruniers (36169)
- Reboursin (36170)
- Reuilly (36171)
- Saint-Aoustrille (36179)
- Saint-Aubin (36181)
- Saint-Christophe-en-Bazelle (36185)
- Sainte-Fauste (36190)
- Sainte-Lizaigne (36199)
- Saint-Florentin (36191)
- Saint-Georges-sur-Arnon (36195)
- Saint-Pierre-de-Jards (36205)
- Saint-Valentin (36209)
- Ségry (36215)
- Sembleçay (36217)
- Thizay (36222)
- Val-Fouzon (36229)
- Vatan (36230)
- Vouillon (36248)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
| INSEE code |
Commune | Population[5] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36088 | Issoudun | 12,270 | Issoudun | Le Pays d'Issoudun |
| 36034 | Chabris | 2,710 | Valençay | Chabris - Pays de Bazelle |
| 36171 | Reuilly | 2,050 | Levroux | Le Pays d'Issoudun |
| 36230 | Vatan | 2,038 | Levroux | Canton de Vatan et de Champagne Berrichonne |
| 36140 | Neuvy-Pailloux | 1,235 | La Châtre | Canton de Vatan et de Champagne Berrichonne |
| 36199 | Sainte-Lizaigne | 1,212 | Levroux | Le Pays d'Issoudun |
| 36229 | Val-Fouzon | 1,016 | Valençay | Chabris - Pays de Bazelle |
| 36162 | Poulaines | 919 | Valençay | Chabris - Pays de Bazelle |
| 36003 | Ambrault | 917 | Ardentes | Canton de Vatan et de Champagne Berrichonne |
| 36021 | Les Bordes | 895 | Issoudun | Le Pays d'Issoudun |
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]
- ↑ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Historique de l'Indre". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "Décret n° 2014-178 du 18 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de l'Indre" (in French). Legifrance.gouv.fr. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ↑ "Arrondissement d'Issoudun (364)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ↑ "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.