Arrondissement of Tours
The arrondissement of Tours is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Tours.
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Country | France |
Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
Department | Indre-et-Loire |
No. of communes | 54 |
Prefecture | Tours |
Area | 1,087.6 km2 (419.9 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 389,629 |
INSEE code | 372 |
History
changeWhen the Indre-et-Loire department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Tours was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
changeThe arrondissement of Tours is the northern half of the Indre-et-Loire department. It is bordered to the north and east by the Loir-et-Cher department, to the southeast by the Loches arrondissement, to the southwest by the Chinon arrondissement, to the west by the Maine-et-Loire department and to the northwest by the Sarthe department.
The arrondissement of Tours is the largest arrondissement of the department in area, 2,629.2 square kilometres (1,015.1 square miles), and the one with more people living in it with 466,232 inhabitants.[3]
Composition
changeCantons
changeAfter the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
The cantons of the arrondissement of Tours are:
- Amboise (3701)
- Ballan-Miré (3702)
- Bléré (3703)
- Château-Renault (3704)
- Joué-lès-Tours (3707)
- Langeais (3708) (partly)
- Montlouis-sur-Loire (3710)
- Monts (3711)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (3712)
- Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (3714)
- Tours-1 (3715)
- Tours-2 (3716)
- Tours-3 (3717)
- Tours-4 (3718)
- Vouvray (3719)
Communes
changeThe arrondissement of Tours has 54 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[5]
- Artannes-sur-Indre (37006)
- Azay-le-Rideau (37014)
- Azay-sur-Cher (37015)
- Ballan-Miré (37018)
- Berthenay (37025)
- Bréhémont (37038)
- Chambray-lès-Tours (37050)
- Chançay (37052)
- Chanceaux-sur-Choisille (37054)
- La Chapelle-aux-Naux (37056)
- Cheillé (37067)
- Druye (37099)
- Esvres (37104)
- Fondettes (37109)
- Joué-lès-Tours (37122)
- Larçay (37124)
- Lignières-de-Touraine (37128)
- Luynes (37139)
- La Membrolle-sur-Choisille (37151)
- Mettray (37152)
- Monnaie (37153)
- Montbazon (37154)
- Montlouis-sur-Loire (37156)
- Monts (37159)
- Notre-Dame-d'Oé (37172)
- Parçay-Meslay (37179)
- Pont-de-Ruan (37186)
- Reugny (37194)
- La Riche (37195)
- Rigny-Ussé (37197)
- Rivarennes (37200)
- Rochecorbon (37203)
- Saché (37205)
- Saint-Avertin (37208)
- Saint-Branchs (37211)
- Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois (37212)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (37214)
- Saint-Étienne-de-Chigny (37217)
- Saint-Genouph (37219)
- Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (37233)
- Savonnières (37243)
- Sorigny (37250)
- Thilouze (37257)
- Tours (37261)
- Truyes (37263)
- Vallères (37264)
- Veigné (37266)
- Véretz (37267)
- Vernou-sur-Brenne (37270)
- Villaines-les-Rochers (37271)
- Villandry (37272)
- La Ville-aux-Dames (37273)
- Villeperdue (37278)
- Vouvray (37281)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[6] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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37261 | Tours | 136,125 | Tours-1, Tours-2, Tours-3, Tours-4 | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37122 | Joué-lès-Tours | 37,748 | Joué-lès-Tours | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37214 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | 15,994 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37233 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | 15,538 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37208 | Saint-Avertin | 14,985 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37050 | Chambray-lès-Tours | 11,109 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37156 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | 10,574 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | Touraine-Est Vallées |
37195 | La Riche | 10,434 | Ballan-Miré | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37109 | Fondettes | 10,427 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37018 | Ballan-Miré | 7,900 | Ballan-Miré | CU Tour(S) Plus |
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ↑ "Historique d'Indre-et-Loire". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Tours (372)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Tours (372)". Géographie administrative et d’étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 27 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.