Arrondissement of Poitiers

The **arrondissement of Poitiers** is an arrondissement of France, in the Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Poitiers.

## History
When the Vienne department was created on 1800, the *arrondissement* of Poitiers was part of that original department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Poitiers is in western Vienne and is bordered to the north and northeast by the *arrondissement* Châtellerault, to east and south by the *arrondissement* Montmorillon, and to the west by the Deux-Sèvres department.

It has an area of . It has 246,038 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km². It is the *arrondissement* of Vienne with more people living in it but is the one with the smallest area.

## 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*.

In the *arrondissement* of Poitiers, there are 8 cantons whose *communes* are in the *arrondissement*: Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Migné-Auxances, Poitiers-1, Poitiers-2, Poitiers-3, Poitiers-4, Poitiers-5, Vivonne and Vouneuil-sous-Biard. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Poitiers has 87 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

# Amberre (86002)
# Aslonnes (86010)
# Avanton (86016)
# Ayron (86017)
# Benassay (86021)
# Biard (86027)
# Bignoux (86028)
# Blaslay (86030)
# Bonnes (86031)
# Buxerolles (86041)
# Béruges (86024)
# Celle-Lévescault (86045)
# Chabournay (86048)
# Chalandray (86050)
# Champigny-le-Sec (86053)
# Charrais (86060)
# Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (86062)
# Cheneché (86071)
# Cherves (86073)
# Chiré-en-Montreuil (86074)
# Château-Larcher (86065)
# Cissé (86076)
# Cloué (86080)
# Coulombiers (86083)
# Croutelle (86088)
# Cuhon (86089)
# Curzay-sur-Vonne (86091)
# Dienné (86094)
# Dissay (86095)
# Fleuré (86099)
# Fontaine-le-Comte (86100)
# Frozes (86102)
# Gizay (86105)
# Iteuil (86113)
# Jardres (86114)
# Jaunay-Clan (86115)
# Jazeneuil (86116)
# La Chapelle-Montreuil (86056)
# La Chapelle-Moulière (86058)
# La Villedieu-du-Clain (86290)
# Latillé (86121)
# Lavausseau (86123)
# Lavoux (86124)
# Le Rochereau (86208)
# Ligugé (86133)
# Liniers (86135)
# Lusignan (86139)
# Maillé (86142)
# Maisonneuve (86144)
# Marigny-Brizay (86146)
# Marigny-Chemereau (86147)
# Marnay (86148)
# Marçay (86145)
# Massognes (86150)
# Mignaloux-Beauvoir (86157)
# Migné-Auxances (86158)
# Mirebeau (86160)
# Montamisé (86163)
# Montreuil-Bonnin (86166)
# Neuville-de-Poitou (86177)
# Nieuil-l'Espoir (86178)
# Nouaillé-Maupertuis (86180)
# Poitiers (86194)
# Pouillé (86198)
# Quinçay (86204)
# Roches-Prémarie-Andillé (86209)
# Rouillé (86213)
# Saint-Benoît (86214)
# Saint-Cyr (86219)
# Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux (86222)
# Saint-Julien-l'Ars (86226)
# Saint-Sauvant (86244)
# Sanxay (86253)
# Savigny-Lévescault (86256)
# Smarves (86263)
# Sèvres-Anxaumont (86261)
# Tercé (86268)
# Thurageau (86271)
# Varennes (86277)
# Vendeuvre-du-Poitou (86281)
# Vernon (86284)
# Villiers (86292)
# Vivonne (86293)
# Vouillé (86294)
# Vouneuil-sous-Biard (86297)
# Vouzailles (86299)
# Yversay (86300)

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Vienne department
* List of arrondissements of France

## References