Arrondissement of Montluçon

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

## History
On 4 March 1790, with the establishment of the department of Allier, Montluçon was one of the districts of the department. With the establishment of the *arrondissements* on 17 February 1800, Montluçon was one of the original *arrondissements*.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Montluçon is bordered to the north by the Cher (Centre-Val de Loire region) department, to the east by the *arrondissement* of Moulins, to the southeast by the *arrondissement* of Vichy, to the south by the Puy-de-Dôme department and to the west by the Creuse (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region) department.

It is the westernmost of the *arrondissements* of the department, with an area of , the second largest in area of the department. It has 114,756 inhabitants 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 Montluçon, there are 6 cantons whose *communes* are in the *arrondissement*: Commentry, Huriel, Montluçon-1, Montluçon-2, Montluçon-3 and Montluçon-4 as can be seen in the following table:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Montluçon has 89 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes):

# Ainay-le-Château (03003)
# Archignat (03005)
# Arpheuilles-Saint-Priest (03007)
# Audes (03010)
# Beaune-d'Allier (03020)
# Bézenet (03027)
# Bizeneuille (03031)
# Blomard (03032)
# Braize (03037)
# Le Brethon (03041)
# La Celle (03047)
# Cérilly (03048)
# Chambérat (03051)
# Chamblet (03052)
# La Chapelaude (03055)
# Chappes (03058)
# Chavenon (03070)
# Chazemais (03072)
# Colombier (03081)
# Commentry (03082)
# Cosne-d'Allier (03084)
# Courçais (03088)
# Deneuille-les-Mines (03097)
# Désertines (03098)
# Domérat (03101)
# Doyet (03104)
# Durdat-Larequille (03106)
# Estivareilles (03111)
# Haut-Bocage (03158)
# Hérisson (03127)
# Huriel (03128)
# Hyds (03129)
# Isle-et-Bardais (03130)
# Lamaids (03136)
# Lavault-Sainte-Anne (03140)
# Lételon (03143)
# Lignerolles (03145)
# Louroux-Bourbonnais (03150)
# Louroux-de-Beaune (03151)
# Malicorne (03159)
# Marcillat-en-Combraille (03161)
# Mazirat (03167)
# Meaulne-Vitray (03168)
# Mesples (03172)
# Montluçon (03185)
# Montmarault (03186)
# Montvicq (03189)
# Murat (03191)
# Nassigny (03193)
# Néris-les-Bains (03195)
# La Petite-Marche (03206)
# Prémilhat (03211)
# Quinssaines (03212)
# Reugny (03213)
# Ronnet (03216)
# Saint-Angel (03217)
# Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais (03221)
# Saint-Bonnet-de-Four (03219)
# Saint-Caprais (03222)
# Saint-Désiré (03225)
# Saint-Éloy-d'Allier (03228)
# Sainte-Thérence (03261)
# Saint-Fargeol (03231)
# Saint-Genest (03233)
# Saint-Marcel-en-Marcillat (03244)
# Saint-Marcel-en-Murat (03243)
# Saint-Martinien (03246)
# Saint-Palais (03249)
# Saint-Priest-en-Murat (03256)
# Saint-Sauvier (03259)
# Saint-Victor (03262)
# Sauvagny (03269)
# Sazeret (03270)
# Teillet-Argenty (03279)
# Terjat (03280)
# Theneuille (03282)
# Tortezais (03285)
# Treignat (03288)
# Urçay (03293)
# Valigny (03296)
# Vallon-en-Sully (03297)
# Vaux (03301)
# Venas (03303)
# Verneix (03305)
# Vernusse (03308)
# Le Vilhain (03313)
# Villebret (03314)
# Villefranche-d'Allier (03315)
# Viplaix (03317)

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

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

## References