The arrondissement of Rethel is an arrondissement of France in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Rethel.

It is found in the southwest of the department with an area of , the second smallest arrondissement of the department. It has 37,142 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

History
When the Ardennes department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Rethel was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Rethel is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières, to the east by the arrondissement of Vouziers, to the south by the Marne department and to the west by the Aisne department.

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.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Rethel are (with their INSEE codes):
 Château-Porcien (0808)
 Rethel (0811)
 Signy-l'Abbaye (0817) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Rethel has 101 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Acy-Romance (08001)
 Aire (08004)
 Alincourt (08005)
 Amagne (08008)
 Ambly-Fleury (08010)
 Annelles (08014)
 Arnicourt (08021)
 Asfeld (08024)
 Auboncourt-Vauzelles (08027)
 Aussonce (08032)
 Avançon (08038)
 Avaux (08039)
 Balham (08044)
 Banogne-Recouvrance (08046)
 Barby (08048)
 Bergnicourt (08060)
 Bertoncourt (08062)
 Biermes (08064)
 Bignicourt (08066)
 Blanzy-la-Salonnaise (08070)
 Brienne-sur-Aisne (08084)
 Chappes (08102)
 Le Châtelet-sur-Retourne (08111)
 Chaumont-Porcien (08113)
 Chesnois-Auboncourt (08117)
 Château-Porcien (08107)
 Condé-lès-Herpy (08126)
 Corny-Machéroménil (08132)
 Coucy (08133)
 Doumely-Bégny (08143)
 Doux (08144)
 Draize (08146)
 Écly (08150)
 Faissault (08163)
 Faux (08165)
 Fraillicourt (08178)
 Givron (08192)
 Gomont (08195)
 Grandchamp (08196)
 Hagnicourt (08205)
 Hannogne-Saint-Rémy (08210)
 Hauteville (08219)
 Herpy-l'Arlésienne (08225)
 Houdilcourt (08229)
 Inaumont (08234)
 Juniville (08239)
 Justine-Herbigny (08240)
 L'Écaille (08148)
 La Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy (08320)
 La Neuville-lès-Wasigny (08323)
 La Romagne (08369)
 Le Thour (08451)
 Lucquy (08262)
 Mesmont (08288)
 Mont-Laurent (08306)
 Montmeillant (08307)
 Ménil-Annelles (08286)
 Ménil-Lépinois (08287)
 Nanteuil-sur-Aisne (08313)
 Neuflize (08314)
 Neuvizy (08324)
 Novion-Porcien (08329)
 Novy-Chevrières (08330)
 Perthes (08339)
 Poilcourt-Sydney (08340)
 Puiseux (08348)
 Remaucourt (08356)
 Renneville (08360)
 Rethel (08362)
 Rocquigny (08366)
 Roizy (08368)
 Rubigny (08372)
 Saint-Fergeux (08380)
 Saint-Germainmont (08381)
 Saint-Jean-aux-Bois (08382)
 Saint-Loup-en-Champagne (08386)
 Saint-Quentin-le-Petit (08396)
 Saint-Remy-le-Petit (08397)
 Saulces-Monclin (08402)
 Sault-Saint-Remy (08404)
 Sault-lès-Rethel (08403)
 Seraincourt (08413)
 Sery (08415)
 Seuil (08416)
 Son (08426)
 Sorbon (08427)
 Sorcy-Bauthémont (08428)
 Sévigny-Waleppe (08418)
 Tagnon (08435)
 Taizy (08438)
 Thugny-Trugny (08452)
 Vaux-Montreuil (08467)
 Vaux-lès-Rubigny (08465)
 Viel-Saint-Remy (08472)
 Vieux-lès-Asfeld (08473)
 Ville-sur-Retourne (08484)
 Villers-devant-le-Thour (08476)
 Villers-le-Tourneur (08479)
 Wagnon (08496)
 Wasigny (08499)
 Wignicourt (08500)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

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

References

Rethel