Arrondissement of Vichy

The **arrondissement of Vichy** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Allier *département*. Its capital is the city of Vichy, a prefecture of the department.

## History
When the department of Allier was created on 4 March 1790, Vichy was not one of ist districts. With the establishment of the *arrondissements* on 17 February 1800, Vichy was part of the *arrondissements* of *Lapalisse*.

On 24 August 1941, the capital of the *arrondissement* of *Lapalisse* was moved from the city of Lapalisse to the city of Vichy that was then the capital of the French State. and 122,267 inhabitants, the *arrondissement* of Allier with more people living there, and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

## 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 Vichy, there are 5 cantons whose *communes* are in the *arrondissement*: Bellerive-sur-Allier, Cusset, Lapalisse, Vichy-1 and Vichy-2 as can be seen in the following table:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Vichy has 119 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Abrest (03001)
# Andelaroche (03004)
# Arfeuilles (03006)
# Arronnes (03008)
# Avrilly (03014)
# Barrais-Bussolles (03017)
# Bègues (03021)
# Bellenaves (03022)
# Bellerive-sur-Allier (03023)
# Bert (03024)
# Billezois (03028)
# Billy (03029)
# Biozat (03030)
# Bost (03033)
# Boucé (03034)
# Le Bouchaud (03035)
# Le Breuil (03042)
# Broût-Vernet (03043)
# Brugheas (03044)
# Busset (03045)
# La Chabanne (03050)
# La Chapelle (03056)
# Charmeil (03060)
# Charmes (03061)
# Châtel-Montagne (03066)
# Châtelperron (03067)
# Châtelus (03068)
# Chavroches (03071)
# Chezelle (03075)
# Chirat-l'Église (03077)
# Chouvigny (03078)
# Cindré (03079)
# Cognat-Lyonne (03080)
# Coutansouze (03089)
# Créchy (03091)
# Creuzier-le-Neuf (03093)
# Creuzier-le-Vieux (03094)
# Cusset (03095)
# Le Donjon (03103)
# Droiturier (03105)
# Ébreuil (03107)
# Échassières (03108)
# Escurolles (03109)
# Espinasse-Vozelle (03110)
# Ferrières-sur-Sichon (03113)
# Gannat (03118)
# La Guillermie (03125)
# Hauterive (03126)
# Isserpent (03131)
# Jaligny-sur-Besbre (03132)
# Jenzat (03133)
# Lalizolle (03135)
# Langy (03137)
# Lapalisse (03138)
# Laprugne (03139)
# Lavoine (03141)
# Lenax (03142)
# Liernolles (03144)
# Loddes (03147)
# Louroux-de-Bouble (03152)
# Luneau (03154)
# Magnet (03157)
# Mariol (03163)
# Le Mayet-d'École (03164)
# Le Mayet-de-Montagne (03165)
# Mazerier (03166)
# Molles (03174)
# Monestier (03175)
# Montaiguët-en-Forez (03178)
# Montaigu-le-Blin (03179)
# Montcombroux-les-Mines (03181)
# Monteignet-sur-l'Andelot (03182)
# Montoldre (03187)
# Nades (03192)
# Naves (03194)
# Neuilly-en-Donjon (03196)
# Nizerolles (03201)
# Périgny (03205)
# Le Pin (03208)
# Poëzat (03209)
# Rongères (03215)
# Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort (03220)
# Saint-Christophe (03223)
# Saint-Clément (03224)
# Saint-Didier-en-Donjon (03226)
# Saint-Didier-la-Forêt (03227)
# Saint-Étienne-de-Vicq (03230)
# Saint-Félix (03232)
# Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (03235)
# Saint-Germain-des-Fossés (03236)
# Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance (03239)
# Saint-Léon (03240)
# Saint-Loup (03242)
# Saint-Nicolas-des-Biefs (03248)
# Saint-Pierre-Laval (03250)
# Saint-Pont (03252)
# Saint-Priest-d'Andelot (03255)
# Saint-Prix (03257)
# Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat (03258)
# Saint-Yorre (03264)
# Sanssat (03266)
# Saulzet (03268)
# Serbannes (03271)
# Servilly (03272)
# Seuillet (03273)
# Sorbier (03274)
# Sussat (03276)
# Target (03277)
# Thionne (03284)
# Treteau (03289)
# Trézelles (03291)
# Valignat (03295)
# Varennes-sur-Allier (03298)
# Varennes-sur-Tèche (03299)
# Veauce (03302)
# Vendat (03304)
# Le Vernet (03306)
# Vichy (03310)
# Vicq (03311)

The *communes* with more inhabitants in the *arrondissement* are:

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Allier department
* Communes of the Allier department

## References