Arrondissement of Rochefort

The **arrondissement of Rochefort** is an arrondissement of France, in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Rochefort.

## History
When the Charente-Maritime department was created on 1790, the *arrondissement* of Rochefort was part of that original department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Rochefort has an area of , and a population of 187,843 inhabitants for a density of  inhabitants/km².

Rochefort is in the northern half of the department. It is bordered to the north by the *arrondissement* of La Rochelle, to the northeast by the Deux-Sèvres department, to the east by the *arrondissements* of Saint-Jean-d'Angély and Saintes. To the south is the upper part the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary of France, and the Atlantic Ocean is to the west.

## 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 Rochefort, there are 12 cantons, some of them only partially. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Rochefort has 82 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis (17003)
# Île-d'Aix (17004)
# Anais (17007)
# Ardillières (17018)
# Arvert (17021)
# Ballon (17032)
# Beaugeay (17036)
# Bouhet (17057)
# Bourcefranc-le-Chapus (17058)
# Breuil-la-Réorte (17063)
# Breuillet (17064)
# Breuil-Magné (17065)
# Cabariot (17075)
# Chaillevette (17079)
# Chambon (17080)
# Champagne (17083)
# Le Château-d'Oléron (17093)
# Chervettes (17103)
# Ciré-d'Aunis (17107)
# Dolus-d'Oléron (17140)
# Échillais (17146)
# L’Éguille (17151)
# Étaules (17155)
# Forges (17166)
# Fouras (17168)
# Genouillé (17174)
# La Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien (17184)
# Le Gua (17185)
# Hiers-Brouage (17189)
# Landrais (17203)
# Loire-les-Marais (17205)
# Lussant (17216)
# Marennes (17219)
# Marsais (17221)
# Les Mathes (17225)
# Meschers-sur-Gironde (17230)
# Moëze (17237)
# Moragne (17246)
# Mornac-sur-Seudre (17247)
# Muron (17253)
# Nieulle-sur-Seudre (17265)
# Péré (17272)
# Puyravault (17293)
# Rochefort (17299)
# Royan (17306)
# Saint-Agnant (17308)
# Saint-Augustin (17311)
# Saint-Coutant-le-Grand (17320)
# Saint-Crépin (17321)
# Saint-Denis-d'Oléron (17323)
# Saint-Froult (17329)
# Saint-Georges-de-Didonne (17333)
# Saint-Georges-d'Oléron (17337)
# Saint-Georges-du-Bois (17338)
# Saint-Germain-de-Marencennes (17340)
# Saint-Hippolyte (17346)
# Saint-Jean-d'Angle (17348)
# Saint-Just-Luzac (17351)
# Saint-Laurent-de-la-Barrière (17352)
# Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée (17353)
# Saint-Mard (17359)
# Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente (17375)
# Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (17380)
# Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly (17382)
# Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron (17385)
# Saint-Saturnin-du-Bois (17394)
# Saint-Sornin (17406)
# Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan (17409)
# Saint-Trojan-les-Bains (17411)
# Soubise (17429)
# Surgères (17434)
# Le Thou (17447)
# Tonnay-Charente (17449)
# La Tremblade (17452)
# Vandré (17457)
# Vaux-sur-Mer (17461)
# Vergeroux (17463)
# Virson (17480)
# Vouhé (17482)
# Port-des-Barques (17484)
# Le Grand-Village-Plage (17485)
# La Brée-les-Bains (17486) 

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

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Charente-Maritime department
* List of arrondissements of France

## References