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.

History
When the Indre-et-Loire department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Tours was part of that original department.

Geography
The 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, , and the one with more people living in it with 466,232 inhabitants.

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 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
The arrondissement of Tours has 54 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 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:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 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
 Arrondissements of the Indre-et-Loire department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

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