Arrondissement of Le Blanc

The arrondissement of Le Blanc is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Le Blanc.

History
When the Indre department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Le Blanc was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Le Blanc is the most western arrondissement of the Indre department; it covers parts of the west and southwest of the department. It  is the second arrondissement of the department in area, after the arrondissement of Châteauroux, with, but the one with the lowest population (31,821 inhabitants).

The lowest point in the arrondissement is  high,  in the "commune" of Néons-sur-Creuse, and the highest is  high,  in the "commune" of Mouhet.

It is bordered to the north by the Indre-et-Loire department, to the east by the arrondissement of Châteauroux, to the southeast by the arrondissement of  La Châtre, to the south by the Creuse department, to the southwest by the  Haute-Vienne department and to the west by the Vienne 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.

There are only two cantons in the arrondissement of Le Blanc:
 Le Blanc (3603), with 27 "communes", all in the arrondissement; and
 Saint-Gaultier (3612), with 30 "communes" in the arrondissement and 4 in the arrondissement of Châteauroux.

Communes
The arrondissement of Le Blanc has 57 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Azay-le-Ferron (36010)
 Beaulieu (36015)
 Bélâbre (36016)
 Le Blanc (36018)
 Bonneuil (36020)
 Chaillac (36035)
 Chalais (36036)
 La Châtre-Langlin (36047)
 Chazelet (36049)
 Chitray (36051)
 Ciron (36053)
 Concremiers (36058)
 Douadic (36066)
 Dunet (36067)
 Fontgombault (36076)
 Ingrandes (36087)
 Lignac (36094)
 Lingé (36096)
 Lurais (36104)
 Lureuil (36105)
 Luzeret (36106)
 Martizay (36113)
 Mauvières (36114)
 Mérigny (36119)
 Mézières-en-Brenne (36123)
 Migné (36124)
 Mouhet (36134)
 Néons-sur-Creuse (36137)
 Nuret-le-Ferron (36144)
 Obterre (36145)
 Oulches (36148)
 Parnac (36150)
 Paulnay (36153)
 La Pérouille (36157)
 Pouligny-Saint-Pierre (36165)
 Preuilly-la-Ville (36167)
 Prissac (36168)
 Rivarennes (36172)
 Rosnay (36173)
 Roussines (36174)
 Ruffec (36176)
 Sacierges-Saint-Martin (36177)
 Saint-Aigny (36178)
 Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (36182)
 Saint-Civran (36187)
 Saint-Gaultier (36192)
 Sainte-Gemme (36193)
 Saint-Gilles (36196)
 Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize (36197)
 Saint-Michel-en-Brenne (36204)
 Saulnay (36212)
 Sauzelles (36213)
 Thenay (36220)
 Tilly (36223)
 Tournon-Saint-Martin (36224)
 Vigoux (36239)
 Villiers (36246)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 36018  Le Blanc  6,602  Le Blanc  Brenne - Val de Creuse 36192  Saint-Gaultier  1,819  Saint-Gaultier  Éguzon - Argenton - Vallée de la Creuse 36224  Tournon-Saint-Martin  1,175  Le Blanc  Brenne - Val de Creuse 36165  Pouligny-Saint-Pierre  1,095  Le Blanc  Brenne - Val de Creuse 36035  Chaillac  1,088  Saint-Gaultier  Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin 36123  Mézières-en-Brenne  1,062  Le Blanc  Cœur de Brenne 36016  Bélâbre  999  Saint-Gaultier  Marche Occitane - Val d'Anglin 36113  Martizay  980  Le Blanc  Cœur de Brenne 36220  Thenay  862  Saint-Gaultier  Brenne - Val de Creuse 36010  Azay-le-Ferron  860  Le Blanc  Cœur de Brenne

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

References

Le Blanc