Arrondissement of Issoudun

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

When the Indre department was created on 1800, the _arrondissement_ of Issoudun was part of that original department.

On 10 September 1926, the _arrondissement_ of Issoudun was eliminated but in 1942 it was made again an _arrondissement_.

## Geography

The _arrondissement_ of Issoudun is in the northeast of the Indre department. It is the smallest _arrondissement_ of the department in area, with , 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.

### 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 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

The _arrondissement_ of Issoudun has 49 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

1. Aize <small>(36002)</small>
1. Ambrault <small>(36003)</small>
1. Anjouin <small>(36004)</small>
1. Bagneux <small>(36011)</small>
1. Bommiers <small>(36019)</small>
1. Les Bordes <small>(36021)</small>
1. Brives <small>(36027)</small>
1. Buxeuil <small>(36029)</small>
1. Chabris <small>(36034)</small>
1. La Champenoise <small>(36037)</small>
1. La Chapelle-Saint-Laurian <small>(36041)</small>
1. Chouday <small>(36052)</small>
1. Condé <small>(36059)</small>
1. Diou <small>(36065)</small>
1. Dun-le-Poëlier <small>(36068)</small>
1. Fontenay <small>(36075)</small>
1. Giroux <small>(36083)</small>
1. Guilly <small>(36085)</small>
1. Issoudun <small>(36088)</small>
1. Liniez <small>(36097)</small>
1. Lizeray <small>(36098)</small>
1. Luçay-le-Libre <small>(36102)</small>
1. Menetou-sur-Nahon <small>(36115)</small>
1. Ménétréols-sous-Vatan <small>(36116)</small>
1. Meunet-Planches <small>(36121)</small>
1. Meunet-sur-Vatan <small>(36122)</small>
1. Migny <small>(36125)</small>
1. Neuvy-Pailloux <small>(36140)</small>
1. Orville <small>(36147)</small>
1. Paudy <small>(36152)</small>
1. Poulaines <small>(36162)</small>
1. Pruniers <small>(36169)</small>
1. Reboursin <small>(36170)</small>
1. Reuilly <small>(36171)</small>
1. Saint-Aoustrille <small>(36179)</small>
1. Saint-Aubin <small>(36181)</small>
1. Saint-Christophe-en-Bazelle <small>(36185)</small>
1. Sainte-Fauste <small>(36190)</small>
1. Sainte-Lizaigne <small>(36199)</small>
1. Saint-Florentin <small>(36191)</small>
1. Saint-Georges-sur-Arnon <small>(36195)</small>
1. Saint-Pierre-de-Jards <small>(36205)</small>
1. Saint-Valentin <small>(36209)</small>
1. Ségry <small>(36215)</small>
1. Sembleçay <small>(36217)</small>
1. Thizay <small>(36222)</small>
1. Val-Fouzon <small>(36229)</small>
1. Vatan <small>(36230)</small>
1. Vouillon <small>(36248)</small>

The _communes_ with more inhabitants in the _arrondissement_ are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! 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

- Arrondissements of the Indre department
- List of arrondissements of France

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Issoudun
- **insee**: 364
- **nbcomm**: 49
- **prefecture**: n
- **seat**: Issoudun
- **area**: 1182.3
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Issoudun 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire