Arrondissement of Rethel

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

It is in the southwest of the department with an area of , the second smallest arrondissement of the department. It has 37,142 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

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

Geography
The arrondissement of Rethel is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières, to the east by the arrondissement of Vouziers, to the south by the Marne department and to the west by the Aisne 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.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Rethel are (with their INSEE codes):
 Château-Porcien (0808)
 Rethel (0811)
 Signy-l'Abbaye (0817) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Rethel has 101 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Acy-Romance (08001)
 Aire (08004)
 Alincourt (08005)
 Amagne (08008)
 Ambly-Fleury (08010)
 Annelles (08014)
 Arnicourt (08021)
 Asfeld (08024)
 Auboncourt-Vauzelles (08027)
 Aussonce (08032)
 Avançon (08038)
 Avaux (08039)
 Balham (08044)
 Banogne-Recouvrance (08046)
 Barby (08048)
 Bergnicourt (08060)
 Bertoncourt (08062)
 Biermes (08064)
 Bignicourt (08066)
 Blanzy-la-Salonnaise (08070)
 Brienne-sur-Aisne (08084)
 Chappes (08102)
 Le Châtelet-sur-Retourne (08111)
 Chaumont-Porcien (08113)
 Chesnois-Auboncourt (08117)
 Château-Porcien (08107)
 Condé-lès-Herpy (08126)
 Corny-Machéroménil (08132)
 Coucy (08133)
 Doumely-Bégny (08143)
 Doux (08144)
 Draize (08146)
 Écly (08150)
 Faissault (08163)
 Faux (08165)
 Fraillicourt (08178)
 Givron (08192)
 Gomont (08195)
 Grandchamp (08196)
 Hagnicourt (08205)
 Hannogne-Saint-Rémy (08210)
 Hauteville (08219)
 Herpy-l'Arlésienne (08225)
 Houdilcourt (08229)
 Inaumont (08234)
 Juniville (08239)
 Justine-Herbigny (08240)
 L'Écaille (08148)
 La Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy (08320)
 La Neuville-lès-Wasigny (08323)
 La Romagne (08369)
 Le Thour (08451)
 Lucquy (08262)
 Mesmont (08288)
 Mont-Laurent (08306)
 Montmeillant (08307)
 Ménil-Annelles (08286)
 Ménil-Lépinois (08287)
 Nanteuil-sur-Aisne (08313)
 Neuflize (08314)
 Neuvizy (08324)
 Novion-Porcien (08329)
 Novy-Chevrières (08330)
 Perthes (08339)
 Poilcourt-Sydney (08340)
 Puiseux (08348)
 Remaucourt (08356)
 Renneville (08360)
 Rethel (08362)
 Rocquigny (08366)
 Roizy (08368)
 Rubigny (08372)
 Saint-Fergeux (08380)
 Saint-Germainmont (08381)
 Saint-Jean-aux-Bois (08382)
 Saint-Loup-en-Champagne (08386)
 Saint-Quentin-le-Petit (08396)
 Saint-Remy-le-Petit (08397)
 Saulces-Monclin (08402)
 Sault-Saint-Remy (08404)
 Sault-lès-Rethel (08403)
 Seraincourt (08413)
 Sery (08415)
 Seuil (08416)
 Son (08426)
 Sorbon (08427)
 Sorcy-Bauthémont (08428)
 Sévigny-Waleppe (08418)
 Tagnon (08435)
 Taizy (08438)
 Thugny-Trugny (08452)
 Vaux-Montreuil (08467)
 Vaux-lès-Rubigny (08465)
 Viel-Saint-Remy (08472)
 Vieux-lès-Asfeld (08473)
 Ville-sur-Retourne (08484)
 Villers-devant-le-Thour (08476)
 Villers-le-Tourneur (08479)
 Wagnon (08496)
 Wasigny (08499)
 Wignicourt (08500)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 08362  Rethel  7,778  Rethel  Pays Rethélois 08403  Sault-lès-Rethel  1,940  Rethel  Pays Rethélois 08107  Château-Porcien  1,424  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08239  Juniville  1,206  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08024  Asfeld  1,118  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08435  Tagnon  879  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08381  Saint-Germainmont  835  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08314  Neuflize  767  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08111  Le Châtelet-sur-Retourne  765  Château-Porcien  Pays Rethélois 08402  Saulces-Monclin  739  Signy-l'Abbaye  Les Crêtes Préardennaises

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

References

Rethel