The arrondissement of Poitiers is an arrondissement of France, in the Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Poitiers.

History
When the Vienne department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Poitiers was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Poitiers is in western Vienne and is bordered to the north and northeast by the arrondissement Châtellerault, to east and south by the arrondissement Montmorillon, and to the west by the Deux-Sèvres department.

It has an area of . It has 246,038 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km². It is the arrondissement of Vienne with more people living in it but is the one with the smallest area.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Poitiers, there are 8 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement: Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Migné-Auxances, Poitiers-1, Poitiers-2, Poitiers-3, Poitiers-4, Poitiers-5, Vivonne and Vouneuil-sous-Biard. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Poitiers has 87 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Amberre (86002)
 Aslonnes (86010)
 Avanton (86016)
 Ayron (86017)
 Benassay (86021)
 Biard (86027)
 Bignoux (86028)
 Blaslay (86030)
 Bonnes (86031)
 Buxerolles (86041)
 Béruges (86024)
 Celle-Lévescault (86045)
 Chabournay (86048)
 Chalandray (86050)
 Champigny-le-Sec (86053)
 Charrais (86060)
 Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (86062)
 Cheneché (86071)
 Cherves (86073)
 Chiré-en-Montreuil (86074)
 Château-Larcher (86065)
 Cissé (86076)
 Cloué (86080)
 Coulombiers (86083)
 Croutelle (86088)
 Cuhon (86089)
 Curzay-sur-Vonne (86091)
 Dienné (86094)
 Dissay (86095)
 Fleuré (86099)
 Fontaine-le-Comte (86100)
 Frozes (86102)
 Gizay (86105)
 Iteuil (86113)
 Jardres (86114)
 Jaunay-Clan (86115)
 Jazeneuil (86116)
 La Chapelle-Montreuil (86056)
 La Chapelle-Moulière (86058)
 La Villedieu-du-Clain (86290)
 Latillé (86121)
 Lavausseau (86123)
 Lavoux (86124)
 Le Rochereau (86208)
 Ligugé (86133)
 Liniers (86135)
 Lusignan (86139)
 Maillé (86142)
 Maisonneuve (86144)
 Marigny-Brizay (86146)
 Marigny-Chemereau (86147)
 Marnay (86148)
 Marçay (86145)
 Massognes (86150)
 Mignaloux-Beauvoir (86157)
 Migné-Auxances (86158)
 Mirebeau (86160)
 Montamisé (86163)
 Montreuil-Bonnin (86166)
 Neuville-de-Poitou (86177)
 Nieuil-l'Espoir (86178)
 Nouaillé-Maupertuis (86180)
 Poitiers (86194)
 Pouillé (86198)
 Quinçay (86204)
 Roches-Prémarie-Andillé (86209)
 Rouillé (86213)
 Saint-Benoît (86214)
 Saint-Cyr (86219)
 Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux (86222)
 Saint-Julien-l'Ars (86226)
 Saint-Sauvant (86244)
 Sanxay (86253)
 Savigny-Lévescault (86256)
 Smarves (86263)
 Sèvres-Anxaumont (86261)
 Tercé (86268)
 Thurageau (86271)
 Varennes (86277)
 Vendeuvre-du-Poitou (86281)
 Vernon (86284)
 Villiers (86292)
 Vivonne (86293)
 Vouillé (86294)
 Vouneuil-sous-Biard (86297)
 Vouzailles (86299)
 Yversay (86300)

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Vienne department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Poitiers