Arrondissement of Sedan

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

It is the most eastern of the arrondissements of the department and has an area of , the smallest arrondissement of the department. It has 59,584 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

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

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

Geography
The arrondissement of Sedan is bordered to the north by Belgium (Luxembourg province), to the east by the Meuse department, to the south by the arrondissement of Vouziers and to the west by the arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières.

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 5 cantons in the arrondissement of Sedan; they are (with their INSEE codes):
 Carignan (0803)
 Sedan-1 (0814)
 Sedan-2 (0815)
 Sedan-3 (0816)
 Vouziers (0819) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Sedan has 73 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Angecourt (08013)
 Artaise-le-Vivier (08023)
 Auflance (08029)
 Autrecourt-et-Pourron (08034)
 Balan (08043)
 Bazeilles (08053)
 Beaumont-en-Argonne (08055)
 La Besace (08063)
 Bièvres (08065)
 Blagny (08067)
 Brévilly (08083)
 Bulson (08088)
 Carignan (08090)
 La Chapelle (08101)
 Cheveuges (08119)
 Chémery-Chéhéry (08115)
 Daigny (08136)
 Les Deux-Villes (08138)
 Donchery (08142)
 Douzy (08145)
 Escombres-et-le-Chesnois (08153)
 Euilly-et-Lombut (08159)
 La Ferté-sur-Chiers (08168)
 Fleigneux (08170)
 Floing (08174)
 Francheval (08179)
 Fromy (08184)
 Givonne (08191)
 Glaire (08194)
 Haraucourt (08211)
 Herbeuval (08223)
 Illy (08232)
 Linay (08255)
 Létanne (08252)
 Maisoncelle-et-Villers (08268)
 Malandry (08269)
 Margny (08275)
 Margut (08276)
 Matton-et-Clémency (08281)
 Messincourt (08289)
 Mogues (08291)
 Moiry (08293)
 La Moncelle (08294)
 Le Mont-Dieu (08300)
 Mouzon (08311)
 La Neuville-à-Maire (08317)
 Noyers-Pont-Maugis (08331)
 Osnes (08336)
 Pouru-Saint-Remy (08343)
 Pouru-aux-Bois (08342)
 Puilly-et-Charbeaux (08347)
 Pure (08349)
 Raucourt-et-Flaba (08354)
 Remilly-Aillicourt (08357)
 Sachy (08375)
 Sailly (08376)
 Saint-Aignan (08377)
 Saint-Menges (08391)
 Sapogne-sur-Marche (08399)
 Sedan (08409)
 Signy-Montlibert (08421)
 Stonne (08430)
 Thelonne (08445)
 Tremblois-lès-Carignan (08459)
 Tétaigne (08444)
 Vaux-lès-Mouzon (08466)
 Villers-devant-Mouzon (08477)
 Villers-sur-Bar (08481)
 Villy (08485)
 Vrigne-aux-Bois (08491)
 Wadelincourt (08494)
 Williers (08501)
 Yoncq (08502)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 08409  Sedan  17,829  Sedan-1, Sedan-2,Sedan-3  CA Ardenne Métropole 08491  Vrigne-aux-Bois  3,305  Sedan-1  CA Ardenne Métropole 08090  Carignan  2,954  Carignan  Les Portes du Luxembourg 08174  Floing  2,487  Sedan-2  CA Ardenne Métropole 08311  Mouzon  2,350  Carignan  Les Portes du Luxembourg 08142  Donchery  2,214  Sedan-1  CA Ardenne Métropole 08145  Douzy  2,132  Carignan  Les Portes du Luxembourg 08053  Bazeilles  2,048  Sedan-3  CA Ardenne Métropole 08043  Balan  1,602  Sedan-3  CA Ardenne Métropole 08067  Blagny  1,218  Carignan  Les Portes du Luxembourg 08343  Pouru-Saint-Remy 1,203  Sedan-3  CA Ardenne Métropole

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

References

Sedan