Arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou

The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou is an arrondissement of France, in the Eure-et-Loir department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Nogent-le-Rotrou.

History
When the Eure-et-Loir department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou was part of that original department.

On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou was eliminated but in 1943 Nogent-le-Rotrou became again an arrondissement of the department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou is the most western of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It is the smallest arrondissement of the department with an area of  and the one with fewest people living in it, with a population of 36,668 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Dreux, to the east by the arrondissement of Chartres, to the southeast by the arrondissement of Châteaudun, to the south by the Loir-et-Cher department, to the southwest by the Sarthe department and to the west by the Orne 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 Nogent-le-Rotrou are:

 Brou (2803) (partly)
 Illiers-Combray (2811) (partly)
 Nogent-le-Rotrou (2813)

Communes
The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou has 52 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Argenvilliers (28010)
 Authon-du-Perche (28018)
 La Bazoche-Gouet (28027)
 Beaumont-les-Autels (28031)
 Belhomert-Guéhouville (28033)
 Brunelles (28063)
 Béthonvilliers (28038)
 Champrond-en-Gâtine (28071)
 Champrond-en-Perchet (28072)
 Chapelle-Guillaume (28078)
 Chapelle-Royale (28079)
 Charbonnières (28080)
 Chassant (28086)
 Combres (28105)
 Coudray-au-Perche (28111)
 Coudreceau (28112)
 Fontaine-Simon (28156)
 Frazé (28161)
 Friaize (28166)
 Frétigny (28165)
 Happonvilliers (28192)
 La Croix-du-Perche (28119)
 La Gaudaine (28175)
 La Loupe (28214)
 Le Thieulin (28385)
 Les Autels-Villevillon (28016)
 Les Corvées-les-Yys (28109)
 Les Étilleux (28144)
 Luigny (28219)
 Manou (28232)
 Margon (28236)
 Marolles-les-Buis (28237)
 Meaucé (28240)
 Miermaigne (28252)
 Montigny-le-Chartif (28261)
 Montireau (28264)
 Montlandon (28265)
 Moulhard (28273)
 Nogent-le-Rotrou (28280)
 Nonvilliers-Grandhoux (28282)
 Saint-Bomer (28327)
 Saint-Denis-d'Authou (28331)
 Saint-Éliph (28335)
 Saint-Jean-Pierre-Fixte (28342)
 Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain (28354)
 Saint-Victor-de-Buthon (28362)
 Soizé (28376)
 Souancé-au-Perche (28378)
 Thiron-Gardais (28387)
 Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge (28395)
 Vaupillon (28401)
 Vichères (28407)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 28280  Nogent-le-Rotrou  10,130  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Le Perche 28214  La Loupe  3,527  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Terres de Perche 28018  Authon-du-Perche  1,240  Brou  Le Perche 28027  La Bazoche-Gouet  1,234  Brou  Le Grand Châteaudun 28236  Margon  1,233  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Le Perche 28387  Thiron-Gardais  1,031  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Terres de Perche 28335  Saint-Éliph  954  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Terres de Perche 28156  Fontaine-Simon  951  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Terres de Perche 28033  Belhomert-Guéhouville  807  Nogent-le-Rotrou  Terres de Perche
Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Nogent-le-Rotrou