Arrondissement of Vichy

The arrondissement of Vichy is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Allier département. Its capital is the city of Vichy, a prefecture of the department.

History
When the department of Allier was created on 4 March 1790, Vichy was not one of ist districts. With the establishment of the arrondissements on 17 February 1800, Vichy was part of the arrondissements of Lapalisse.

On 24 August 1941, the capital of the arrondissement of Lapalisse was moved from the city of Lapalisse to the city of Vichy that was then the capital of the French State.

Geography
The arrondissement  of Vichy is in the southeast of the Allier department and is bordered to the west and north by the arrondissement of Moulins, to the east by the Saône-et-Loire department (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region), to the southeast by the Loire department, to the south by the Puy-de-Dôme department and to the southwest by the arrondissement of Montluçon.

It has an area of , and 122,267 inhabitants, the arrondissement of Allier with more people living there, and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

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 Vichy, there are 5 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement: Bellerive-sur-Allier, Cusset, Lapalisse, Vichy-1 and Vichy-2 as can be seen in the following table:

+ Communes in the arrondissement of Vichy Canton Montluçon Moulins Vichy Bellerive-sur-Allier11 Cusset4 Dompierre-sur-Besbre1913 Gannat141512 Lapalisse31 Moulins-210 + Part of Moulins12 Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule814 Vichy-13 + Part of Vichy Vichy-22 + Part of Vichy

Communes
The arrondissement of Vichy has 119 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Abrest (03001)
 Andelaroche (03004)
 Arfeuilles (03006)
 Arronnes (03008)
 Avrilly (03014)
 Barrais-Bussolles (03017)
 Bègues (03021)
 Bellenaves (03022)
 Bellerive-sur-Allier (03023)
 Bert (03024)
 Billezois (03028)
 Billy (03029)
 Biozat (03030)
 Bost (03033)
 Boucé (03034)
 Le Bouchaud (03035)
 Le Breuil (03042)
 Broût-Vernet (03043)
 Brugheas (03044)
 Busset (03045)
 La Chabanne (03050)
 La Chapelle (03056)
 Charmeil (03060)
 Charmes (03061)
 Châtel-Montagne (03066)
 Châtelperron (03067)
 Châtelus (03068)
 Chavroches (03071)
 Chezelle (03075)
 Chirat-l'Église (03077)
 Chouvigny (03078)
 Cindré (03079)
 Cognat-Lyonne (03080)
 Coutansouze (03089)
 Créchy (03091)
 Creuzier-le-Neuf (03093)
 Creuzier-le-Vieux (03094)
 Cusset (03095)
 Le Donjon (03103)
 Droiturier (03105)
 Ébreuil (03107)
 Échassières (03108)
 Escurolles (03109)
 Espinasse-Vozelle (03110)
 Ferrières-sur-Sichon (03113)
 Gannat (03118)
 La Guillermie (03125)
 Hauterive (03126)
 Isserpent (03131)
 Jaligny-sur-Besbre (03132)
 Jenzat (03133)
 Lalizolle (03135)
 Langy (03137)
 Lapalisse (03138)
 Laprugne (03139)
 Lavoine (03141)
 Lenax (03142)
 Liernolles (03144)
 Loddes (03147)
 Louroux-de-Bouble (03152)
 Luneau (03154)
 Magnet (03157)
 Mariol (03163)
 Le Mayet-d'École (03164)
 Le Mayet-de-Montagne (03165)
 Mazerier (03166)
 Molles (03174)
 Monestier (03175)
 Montaiguët-en-Forez (03178)
 Montaigu-le-Blin (03179)
 Montcombroux-les-Mines (03181)
 Monteignet-sur-l'Andelot (03182)
 Montoldre (03187)
 Nades (03192)
 Naves (03194)
 Neuilly-en-Donjon (03196)
 Nizerolles (03201)
 Périgny (03205)
 Le Pin (03208)
 Poëzat (03209)
 Rongères (03215)
 Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort (03220)
 Saint-Christophe (03223)
 Saint-Clément (03224)
 Saint-Didier-en-Donjon (03226)
 Saint-Didier-la-Forêt (03227)
 Saint-Étienne-de-Vicq (03230)
 Saint-Félix (03232)
 Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (03235)
 Saint-Germain-des-Fossés (03236)
 Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance (03239)
 Saint-Léon (03240)
 Saint-Loup (03242)
 Saint-Nicolas-des-Biefs (03248)
 Saint-Pierre-Laval (03250)
 Saint-Pont (03252)
 Saint-Priest-d'Andelot (03255)
 Saint-Prix (03257)
 Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat (03258)
 Saint-Yorre (03264)
 Sanssat (03266)
 Saulzet (03268)
 Serbannes (03271)
 Servilly (03272)
 Seuillet (03273)
 Sorbier (03274)
 Sussat (03276)
 Target (03277)
 Thionne (03284)
 Treteau (03289)
 Trézelles (03291)
 Valignat (03295)
 Varennes-sur-Allier (03298)
 Varennes-sur-Tèche (03299)
 Veauce (03302)
 Vendat (03304)
 Le Vernet (03306)
 Vichy (03310)
 Vicq (03311)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 03310  Vichy  25,279  Vichy-1 and Vichy-2  CA Vichy Communauté 03095  Cusset  13,386  Cusset  CA Vichy Communauté 03023  Bellerive-sur-Allier  8,533  Bellerive-sur-Allier  CA Vichy Communauté 03118  Gannat  5,862  Gannat  Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne 03236  Saint-Germain-des-Fossés  3,735  Vichy-1  CA Vichy Communauté 03298  Varennes-sur-Allier  3,562  Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule  Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire 03094  Creuzier-le-Vieux  3,310  Cusset  CA Vichy Communauté 03138  Lapalisse  3,076  Lapalisse  Pays de Lapalisse 03001  Abrest  2,847  Vichy-2  CA Vichy Communauté 03264  Saint-Yorre  2,789  Vichy-2  CA Vichy Communauté

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Allier department
 Communes of the Allier department

References

Vichy