Arrondissement of Pithiviers

The arrondissement of Pithiviers is an arrondissement of France, in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Pithiviers.

History
When the Loiret department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Pithiviers was part of that original department.

The arrondissement was eliminated in 1926 but it was made an arrondissement again in 1942.

Geography
The arrondissement of Pithiviers is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Loiret department. It is the smallest arrondissement of the department,  and the one with fewest people living in it, with 63,280 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the Essonne department, to the east by the Seine-et-Marne department, to the southeast by the arrondissement of Montargis, to the south by the arrondissement of Orléans and to the west by the Eure-et-Loir 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 Pithiviers are Malesherbes ((4509)) and, partly, Pithiviers ((4517)).

Communes
The arrondissement of Pithiviers has 79 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Andonville (45005)
 Aschères-le-Marché (45009)
 Ascoux (45010)
 Attray (45011)
 Audeville (45012)
 Augerville-la-Rivière (45013)
 Aulnay-la-Rivière (45014)
 Autruy-sur-Juine (45015)
 Auxy (45018)
 Barville-en-Gâtinais (45021)
 Batilly-en-Gâtinais (45022)
 Bazoches-les-Gallerandes (45025)
 Beaune-la-Rolande (45030)
 Boësses (45033)
 Boiscommun (45035)
 Boisseaux (45037)
 Bondaroy (45038)
 Bordeaux-en-Gâtinais (45041)
 Bouilly-en-Gâtinais (45045)
 Bouzonville-aux-Bois (45047)
 Boynes (45050)
 Briarres-sur-Essonne (45054)
 Bromeilles (45056)
 Césarville-Dossainville (45065)
 Chambon-la-Forêt (45069)
 Charmont-en-Beauce (45080)
 Châtillon-le-Roi (45086)
 Chaussy (45088)
 Chilleurs-aux-Bois (45095)
 Courcelles (45110)
 Courcy-aux-Loges (45111)
 Crottes-en-Pithiverais (45118)
 Dadonville (45119)
 Desmonts (45124)
 Dimancheville (45125)
 Échilleuses (45131)
 Égry (45132)
 Engenville (45133)
 Erceville (45135)
 Escrennes (45137)
 Estouy (45139)
 Gaubertin (45151)
 Givraines (45157)
 Grangermont (45159)
 Greneville-en-Beauce (45160)
 Guigneville (45162)
 Intville-la-Guétard (45170)
 Jouy-en-Pithiverais (45174)
 Juranville (45176)
 Laas (45177)
 Léouville (45181)
 Lorcy (45186)
 Le Malesherbois (45191)
 Mareau-aux-Bois (45195)
 Marsainvilliers (45198)
 Montbarrois (45209)
 Montliard (45215)
 Morville-en-Beauce (45217)
 Nancray-sur-Rimarde (45220)
 La Neuville-sur-Essonne (45225)
 Nibelle (45228)
 Oison (45231)
 Ondreville-sur-Essonne (45233)
 Orville (45237)
 Outarville (45240)
 Pannecières (45246)
 Pithiviers (45252)
 Pithiviers-le-Vieil (45253)
 Puiseaux (45258)
 Ramoulu (45260)
 Rouvres-Saint-Jean (45263)
 Saint-Loup-des-Vignes (45288)
 Saint-Michel (45294)
 Santeau (45301)
 Sermaises (45310)
 Thignonville (45320)
 Tivernon (45325)
 Vrigny (45347)
 Yèvre-la-Ville (45348)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 45252  Pithiviers  9,054  Pithiviers  Le Pithiverais 45191  Le Malesherbois  8,098  Malesherbes  Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais 45258  Puiseaux  3,368  Malesherbes  Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais 45119  Dadonville  2,466  Pithiviers  Le Pithiverais 45030  Beaune-la-Rolande  1,984  Malesherbes  Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais 45095  Chilleurs-aux-Bois  1,961   Malesherbes  Le Pithiverais 45253  Pithiviers-le-Vieil  1,809  Pithiviers  Le Pithiverais 45310  Sermaises  1,588  Pithiviers  Le Pithiverais 45025  Bazoches-les-Gallerandes  1,503  Pithiviers  La Plaine du Nord Loiret

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

References

Pithiviers