Arrondissement of Saint-Flour

The **arrondissement of Saint-Flour** is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Cantal *département* in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Flour.

## History
When the *arrondissements* were created in 1800, Saint-Flour was one of them in the Cantal department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Saint-Flour is in the most eastern *arrondissement* of the department and has an area of , the largest in the department, and a population of 38,079 inhabitants with a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The *arrondissement* is bordered to the north by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the Haute-Loire department, to the southeast by the Lozère department (Occitanie), to the southeast by the Aveyron department (Occitanie) and to the west by the *arrondissements* of Aurillac and Mauriac.

## 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 Saint-Flour, there is only one canton where not all their "communes" are in the *arrondissement*: the Riom-ès-Montagnes. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Saint-Flour has 106 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Albepierre-Bredons (15025)
# Allanche (15001)
# Alleuze (15002)
# Andelat (15004)
# Anglards-de-Saint-Flour (15005)
# Anterrieux (15007)
# Auriac-l'Église (15013)
# Bonnac (15022)
# Brezons (15026)
# Celles (15031)
# Celoux (15032)
# Cézens (15033)
# Chaliers (15034)
# Chalinargues (15035)
# Chanterelle (15040)
# La Chapelle-d'Alagnon (15041)
# La Chapelle-Laurent (15042)
# Charmensac (15043)
# Chastel-sur-Murat (15044)
# Chaudes-Aigues (15045)
# Chavagnac (15047)
# Chazelles (15048)
# Cheylade (15049)
# Le Claux (15050)
# Clavières (15051)
# Coltines (15053)
# Condat (15054)
# Coren (15055)
# Cussac (15059)
# Deux-Verges (15060)
# Dienne (15061)
# Espinasse (15065)
# Ferrières-Saint-Mary (15069)
# Fridefont (15073)
# Gourdièges (15077)
# Jabrun (15078)
# Joursac (15080)
# Lacapelle-Barrès (15086)
# Landeyrat (15091)
# Lastic (15097)
# Laurie (15098)
# Lavastrie (15099)
# Laveissenet (15100)
# Laveissière (15101)
# Lavigerie (15102)
# Leyvaux (15105)
# Lieutadès (15106)
# Lorcières (15107)
# Lugarde (15110)
# Malbo (15112)
# Marcenat (15114)
# Marchastel (15116)
# Massiac (15119)
# Maurines (15121)
# Mentières (15125)
# Molèdes (15126)
# Molompize (15127)
# Montboudif (15129)
# Montchamp (15130)
# Montgreleix (15132)
# Murat (15138)
# Narnhac (15139)
# Neussargues-Moissac (15141)
# Neuvéglise (15142)
# Oradour (15145)
# Paulhac (15148)
# Paulhenc (15149)
# Peyrusse (15151)
# Pierrefort (15152)
# Pradiers (15155)
# Rageade (15158)
# Rézentières (15161)
# Roffiac (15164)
# Ruynes-en-Margeride (15168)
# Saint-Amandin (15170)
# Saint-Bonnet-de-Condat (15173)
# Sainte-Anastasie (15171)
# Sainte-Marie (15198)
# Saint-Flour (15187)
# Saint-Georges (15188)
# Saint-Martial (15199)
# Saint-Martin-sous-Vigouroux (15201)
# Saint-Mary-le-Plain (15203)
# Saint-Poncy (15207)
# Saint-Rémy-de-Chaudes-Aigues (15209)
# Saint-Saturnin (15213)
# Saint-Urcize (15216)
# Ségur-les-Villas (15225)
# Sériers (15227)
# Soulages (15229)
# Talizat (15231)
# Tanavelle (15232)
# Les Ternes (15235)
# Tiviers (15237)
# La Trinitat (15241)
# Ussel (15244)
# Vabres (15245)
# Val d'Arcomie (15108)
# Valjouze (15247)
# Valuéjols (15248)
# Védrines-Saint-Loup (15251)
# Vernols (15253)
# Vèze (15256)
# Vieillespesse (15259)
# Villedieu (15262)
# Virargues (15263)

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

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Cantal department
* Communes of the Cantal department
* List of arrondissements of France

## References