Arrondissement of Dreux

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

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

Geography
The arrondissement of Dreux is the most southern of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It has an area of  and a population of 129,431 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the Eure department, to the east by the Yvelines department, to the south by the arrondissement of Chartres, to the southwest by the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou 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 Dreux are:

 Anet (2801)
 Dreux-1 (2808)
 Dreux-2 (2809)
 Épernon (2810) (partly)
 Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets (2814)

Communes
The arrondissement of Dreux has 108 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Abondant (28001)
 Allainville (28003)
 Anet (28007)
 Ardelles (28008)
 Aunay-sous-Crécy (28014)
 Beauche (28030)
 Berchères-sur-Vesgre (28036)
 Bérou-la-Mulotière (28037)
 Boissy-en-Drouais (28045)
 Boissy-lès-Perche (28046)
 Boncourt (28050)
 Le Boullay-les-Deux-Églises (28053)
 Le Boullay-Mivoye (28054)
 Le Boullay-Thierry (28055)
 Boutigny-Prouais (28056)
 Bréchamps (28058)
 Brezolles (28059)
 Broué (28062)
 Bû (28064)
 La Chapelle-Forainvilliers (28076)
 La Chapelle-Fortin (28077)
 Charpont (28082)
 Châtaincourt (28087)
 Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais (28089)
 Les Châtelets (28090)
 Chaudon (28094)
 La Chaussée-d'Ivry (28096)
 Cherisy (28098)
 Coulombs (28113)
 Crécy-Couvé (28117)
 Croisilles (28118)
 Crucey-Villages (28120)
 Dampierre-sur-Avre (28124)
 Digny (28130)
 Dreux (28134)
 Écluzelles (28136)
 Escorpain (28143)
 Faverolles (28146)
 Favières (28147)
 La Ferté-Vidame (28149)
 Fessanvilliers-Mattanvilliers (28151)
 Fontaine-les-Ribouts (28155)
 La Framboisière (28159)
 Garancières-en-Drouais (28170)
 Garnay (28171)
 Germainville (28178)
 Gilles (28180)
 Goussainville (28185)
 Guainville (28187)
 Havelu (28193)
 Jaudrais (28200)
 Lamblore (28202)
 Laons (28206)
 Lormaye (28213)
 Louvilliers-en-Drouais (28216)
 Louvilliers-lès-Perche (28217)
 Luray (28223)
 Maillebois (28226)
 La Mancelière (28231)
 Marchezais (28235)
 Marville-Moutiers-Brûlé (28239)
 Le Mesnil-Simon (28247)
 Le Mesnil-Thomas (28248)
 Mézières-en-Drouais (28251)
 Montigny-sur-Avre (28263)
 Montreuil (28267)
 Morvilliers (28271)
 Néron (28275)
 Nogent-le-Roi (28279)
 Ormoy (28289)
 Ouerre (28292)
 Oulins (28293)
 Les Pinthières (28299)
 Prudemanche (28308)
 La Puisaye (28310)
 Puiseux (28312)
 Les Ressuintes (28314)
 Revercourt (28315)
 Rohaire (28316)
 Rouvres (28321)
 Rueil-la-Gadelière (28322)
 Saint-Ange-et-Torçay (28323)
 Sainte-Gemme-Moronval (28332)
 Saint-Jean-de-Rebervilliers (28341)
 Saint-Laurent-la-Gâtine (28343)
 Saint-Lubin-de-Cravant (28346)
 Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye (28347)
 Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets (28348)
 Saint-Lucien (28349)
 Saint-Maixme-Hauterive (28351)
 Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy (28355)
 Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre (28359)
 Saint-Sauveur-Marville (28360)
 La Saucelle (28368)
 Saulnières (28369)
 Saussay (28371)
 Senantes (28372)
 Senonches (28373)
 Serazereux (28374)
 Serville (28375)
 Sorel-Moussel (28377)
 Thimert-Gâtelles (28386)
 Tremblay-les-Villages (28393)
 Tréon (28394)
 Vernouillet (28404)
 Vert-en-Drouais (28405)
 Villemeux-sur-Eure (28415)
 Villiers-le-Morhier (28417) 

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 28134  Dreux  31,191  Dreux-1 and Dreux-2  CA du Pays de Dreux 28404  Vernouillet  12,415  Dreux-1  CA du Pays de Dreux 28279  Nogent-le-Roi  4,116  Épernon  Les Portes Euréliennes d'Ile de France 28348  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  4,082  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  CA du Pays de Dreux 28359  Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre  3,908  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  CA du Pays de Dreux 28373  Senonches  3,106  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  Les Forêts du Perche 28007  Anet  2,676  Anet  CA du Pays de Dreux 28089  Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais  2,664  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  CA du Pays de Dreux 28001  Abondant  2,282  Anet  CA du Pays de Dreux 28393  Tremblay-les-Villages  2,281  Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets  CA du Pays de Dreux

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

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