Arrondissement of Le Blanc

The arrondissement of Le Blanc is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Le Blanc.

Le Blanc
Arrondissement
Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire
Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire
CountryFrance
RegionCentre-Val de Loire
DepartmentIndre
No. of communes57
SubprefectureLe Blanc
Area
1,782.3 km2 (688.1 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[1]
30,846
INSEE code361

History

When the Indre department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Le Blanc was part of that original department.[2]

Geography

The arrondissement of Le Blanc is the most western arrondissement of the Indre department; it covers parts of the west and southwest of the department. It is the second arrondissement of the department in area, after the arrondissement of Châteauroux, with1,760.8 km2 (679.8 sq mi), but the one with the lowest population (31,821 inhabitants).

The lowest point in the arrondissement is 59 m (194 ft) high, in the "commune" of Néons-sur-Creuse, and the highest is 344 m (1,129 ft) high, in the "commune" of Mouhet.

It is bordered to the north by the Indre-et-Loire department, to the east by the arrondissement of Châteauroux, to the southeast by the arrondissement of La Châtre, to the south by the Creuse department, to the southwest by the Haute-Vienne department and to the west by the Vienne department.

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.

There are only two cantons in the arrondissement of Le Blanc:

  • Le Blanc (3603), with 27 "communes", all in the arrondissement; and
  • Saint-Gaultier (3612), with 30 "communes" in the arrondissement and 4 in the arrondissement of Châteauroux.

Communes

The arrondissement of Le Blanc has 57 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]

  1. Azay-le-Ferron (36010)
  2. Beaulieu (36015)
  3. Bélâbre (36016)
  4. Le Blanc (36018)
  5. Bonneuil (36020)
  6. Chaillac (36035)
  7. Chalais (36036)
  8. La Châtre-Langlin (36047)
  9. Chazelet (36049)
  10. Chitray (36051)
  11. Ciron (36053)
  12. Concremiers (36058)
  13. Douadic (36066)
  14. Dunet (36067)
  15. Fontgombault (36076)
  16. Ingrandes (36087)
  17. Lignac (36094)
  18. Lingé (36096)
  19. Lurais (36104)
  20. Lureuil (36105)
  21. Luzeret (36106)
  22. Martizay (36113)
  23. Mauvières (36114)
  24. Mérigny (36119)
  25. Mézières-en-Brenne (36123)
  26. Migné (36124)
  27. Mouhet (36134)
  28. Néons-sur-Creuse (36137)
  29. Nuret-le-Ferron (36144)
  30. Obterre (36145)
  31. Oulches (36148)
  32. Parnac (36150)
  33. Paulnay (36153)
  34. La Pérouille (36157)
  35. Pouligny-Saint-Pierre (36165)
  36. Preuilly-la-Ville (36167)
  37. Prissac (36168)
  38. Rivarennes (36172)
  39. Rosnay (36173)
  40. Roussines (36174)
  41. Ruffec (36176)
  42. Sacierges-Saint-Martin (36177)
  43. Saint-Aigny (36178)
  44. Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (36182)
  45. Saint-Civran (36187)
  46. Saint-Gaultier (36192)
  47. Sainte-Gemme (36193)
  48. Saint-Gilles (36196)
  49. Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize (36197)
  50. Saint-Michel-en-Brenne (36204)
  51. Saulnay (36212)
  52. Sauzelles (36213)
  53. Thenay (36220)
  54. Tilly (36223)
  55. Tournon-Saint-Martin (36224)
  56. Vigoux (36239)
  57. Villiers (36246)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

INSEE
code		CommunePopulation[5]
(2014)		CantonIntercommunality
36018Le Blanc6,602Le BlancBrenne - Val de Creuse
36192Saint-Gaultier1,819Saint-GaultierÉguzon - Argenton - Vallée de la Creuse
36224Tournon-Saint-Martin1,175Le BlancBrenne - Val de Creuse
36165Pouligny-Saint-Pierre1,095Le BlancBrenne - Val de Creuse
36035Chaillac1,088Saint-GaultierMarche Occitane - Val d'Anglin
36123Mézières-en-Brenne1,062Le BlancCœur de Brenne
36016Bélâbre999Saint-GaultierMarche Occitane - Val d'Anglin
36113Martizay980Le BlancCœur de Brenne
36220Thenay862Saint-GaultierBrenne - Val de Creuse
36010Azay-le-Ferron860Le BlancCœur de Brenne

References
  1. "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
  2. "Historique de l'Indre". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  3. "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.
  4. "Arrondissement du Blanc (361)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  5. "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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