Arrondissement of Angoulême

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

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

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Angoulême is the second largest *arrondissement* of the department with an area of . It has 197,377 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

The *arrondissement* of Angoulême is in southeastern Charente and is bordered to the north by the *arrondissement* of Confolens, to the east and south by the Dordogne department, and to the west by the *arrondissement* of Cognac.

## 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 Angoulême, there are four cantons where not all their "communes" are in the *arrondissement*: Boixe-et-Manslois, Charente-Sud, Tude-et-Lavalette and Val de Nouère. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and *arrondissements*:

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Angoulême has 117 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

# Agris (16003)
# Angoulême (16015)
# Asnières-sur-Nouère (16019)
# Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (16020)
# Balzac (16026)
# Bardenac (16029)
# Bazac (16034)
# Bellon (16037)
# Bessac (16041)
# Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard (16047)
# Bonnes (16049)
# Bors (16052)
# Bouëx (16055)
# Brie (16061)
# Brie-sous-Chalais (16063)
# Bunzac (16067)
# Chadurie (16072)
# Chalais (16073)
# Champniers (16078)
# Boisné-La Tude (16082)
# Charras (16084)
# Châtignac (16091)
# Chazelles (16093)
# Claix (16101)
# Combiers (16103)
# Coulgens (16107)
# Courgeac (16111)
# Courlac (16112)
# La Couronne (16113)
# Curac (16117)
# Deviat (16118)
# Dignac (16119)
# Dirac (16120)
# Écuras (16124)
# Édon (16125)
# Les Essards (16130)
# Eymouthiers (16135)
# Feuillade (16137)
# Fléac (16138)
# Fouquebrune (16143)
# Garat (16146)
# Gardes-le-Pontaroux (16147)
# Gond-Pontouvre (16154)
# Grassac (16158)
# Gurat (16162)
# L’Isle-d'Espagnac (16166)
# Jauldes (16168)
# Juignac (16170)
# Laprade (16180)
# Linars (16187)
# Magnac-Lavalette-Villars (16198)
# Magnac-sur-Touvre (16199)
# Mainzac (16203)
# Marillac-le-Franc (16209)
# Marsac (16210)
# Marthon (16211)
# Médillac (16215)
# Montboyer (16222)
# Montbron (16223)
# Montignac-le-Coq (16227)
# Montmoreau (16230)
# Mornac (16232)
# Mouthiers-sur-Boëme (16236)
# Nabinaud (16240)
# Nersac (16244)
# Nonac (16246)
# Orgedeuil (16250)
# Orival (16252)
# Palluaud (16254)
# Pillac (16260)
# Plassac-Rouffiac (16263)
# Poullignac (16267)
# Pranzac (16269)
# Puymoyen (16271)
# Rancogne (16274)
# Rioux-Martin (16279)
# Rivières (16280)
# La Rochefoucauld (16281)
# La Rochette (16282)
# Ronsenac (16283)
# Rouffiac (16284)
# Rougnac (16285)
# Roullet-Saint-Estèphe (16287)
# Rouzède (16290)
# Ruelle-sur-Touvre (16291)
# Saint-Adjutory (16293)
# Saint-Avit (16302)
# Saint-Germain-de-Montbron (16323)
# Saint-Laurent-des-Combes (16331)
# Saint-Martial (16334)
# Saint-Michel (16341)
# Saint-Projet-Saint-Constant (16344)
# Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais (16346)
# Saint-Romain (16347)
# Saint-Saturnin (16348)
# Saint-Séverin (16350)
# Saint-Sornin (16353)
# Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente (16358)
# Salles-Lavalette (16362)
# Sers (16368)
# Sireuil (16370)
# Souffrignac (16372)
# Soyaux (16374)
# Taponnat-Fleurignac (16379)
# Torsac (16382)
# Touvre (16385)
# Trois-Palis (16388)
# Vaux-Lavalette (16394)
# Vilhonneur (16406)
# Villebois-Lavalette (16408)
# Vindelle (16415)
# Vœuil-et-Giget (16418)
# Voulgézac (16420)
# Vouthon (16421)
# Vouzan (16422)
# Yviers (16424)
# Yvrac-et-Malleyrand (16425)

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

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

## References