Arrondissement of Saintes
The arrondissement of Saintes is an arrondissement of France, in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital is the city of Saintes.
Saintes | |
|---|---|
 Location within the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Charente-Maritime |
| No. of communes | 88 |
| Subprefecture | Saintes |
| Area | 1,320.4 km2 (509.8 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 117,287 |
| INSEE code | 174 |
History change
When the Charente-Maritime department was created on 1790, the arrondissement of Saintes was part of that original department.[2]
Geography change
It is the largest of the arrondissements of the Charente-Maritime department but the third by population. It has an area of 1,546.5 square kilometres (597.1 square miles),[3] and a population of 128,786 inhabitants for a density of 83.3 inhabitants/km².[4]
Saintes is in the central part of the department. It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, to the east by the arrondissement of Cognac (Charente department), to the south by the arrondissement of Jonzac, to the southwest by the Gironde department (through the Gironde estuary), to the west and northwest by the arrondissement of Rochefort.
Composition change
Cantons change
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Saintes, there are only two cantons where all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: the Saint-Porchaire and Saintes cantons. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
| INSEE Code |
Canton | Arrondissements | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonzac | Rochefort | La Rochelle | Saintes | Saint-Jean-d'Angély | |||
| 1702 | Chaniers | 17 | 10 | 27 | |||
| 1718 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély | 3 | 2 | 36 | 41 | ||
| 1719 | Saint-Porchaire | 20 | 20 | ||||
| 1720 | Saintes | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1721 | Saintonge Estuaire | 1 | 23 | 24 | |||
| 1722 | Saujon | 2 | 7 | 9 | |||
| 1724 | Thénac | 4 | 21 | 25 | |||
Communes change
The arrondissement of Saintes has 89 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[6]
- Arces (17015)
- Balanzac (17030)
- Barzan (17034)
- Berneuil (17044)
- Beurlay (17045)
- Boutenac-Touvent (17060)
- Brie-sous-Mortagne (17068)
- Burie (17072)
- Bussac-sur-Charente (17073)
- Chaniers (17086)
- La Chapelle-des-Pots (17089)
- Le Chay (17097)
- Chenac-Saint-Seurin-d'Uzet (17098)
- Chérac (17100)
- Chermignac (17102)
- La Clisse (17112)
- Colombiers (17115)
- Corme-Écluse (17119)
- Corme-Royal (17120)
- Courcoury (17128)
- Cozes (17131)
- Cravans (17133)
- Crazannes (17134)
- Dompierre-sur-Charente (17141)
- Le Douhet (17143)
- Écoyeux (17147)
- Écurat (17148)
- Épargnes (17152)
- Les Essards (17154)
- Floirac (17160)
- Fontcouverte (17164)
- Geay (17171)
- Gémozac (17172)
- Les Gonds (17179)
- Grézac (17183)
- La Jard (17191)
- Jazennes (17196)
- Luchat (17214)
- Médis (17228)
- Meursac (17232)
- Migron (17235)
- Montils (17242)
- Montpellier-de-Médillan (17244)
- Mortagne-sur-Gironde (17248)
- Nancras (17255)
- Nieul-lès-Saintes (17262)
- Pessines (17275)
- Pisany (17278)
- Plassay (17280)
- Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult (17284)
- Port-d'Envaux (17285)
- Préguillac (17289)
- Rétaud (17296)
- Rioux (17298)
- Romegoux (17302)
- Rouffiac (17304)
- Sablonceaux (17307)
- Saint-André-de-Lidon (17310)
- Saint-Bris-des-Bois (17313)
- Saint-Césaire (17314)
- Sainte-Gemme (17330)
- Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux (17336)
- Saint-Porchaire (17387)
- Sainte-Radegonde (17389)
- Saint-Romain-sur-Gironde (17392)
- Saint-Romain-de-Benet (17393)
- Saint-Sauvant (17395)
- Saint-Sever-de-Saintonge (17400)
- Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille (17404)
- Saint-Sulpice-d'Arnoult (17408)
- Saint-Vaize (17412)
- Saintes (17415)
- Saujon (17421)
- Semussac (17425)
- Le Seure (17426)
- Soulignonne (17431)
- Talmont-sur-Gironde (17437)
- Tanzac (17438)
- Tesson (17441)
- Thaims (17442)
- Thénac (17444)
- Thézac (17445)
- Trizay (17453)
- La Vallée (17455)
- Varzay (17460)
- Vénérand (17462)
- Villars-en-Pons (17469)
- Villars-les-Bois (17470)
- Virollet (17479)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
| INSEE code |
Commune | Population[4] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17415 | Saintes | 25,149 | Saintes | CA de Saintes |
| 17421 | Saujon | 7,221 | Saujon | CA Royan Atlantique |
| 17086 | Chaniers | 3,543 | Chaniers | CA de Saintes |
| 17228 | Médis | 2,855 | Saujon | CA Royan Atlantique |
| 17172 | Gémozac | 2,818 | Saintonge Estuaire | Gémozac et de la Saintonge Viticole |
| 17336 | Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux | 2,650 | Saint-Porchaire | CA de Saintes |
| 17164 | Fontcouverte | 2,400 | Chaniers | CA de Saintes |
| 17425 | Semussac | 2,335 | Saujon | CA Royan Atlantique |
| 17131 | Cozes | 2,090 | Saintonge Estuaire | CA Royan Atlantique |
| 17387 | Saint-Porchaire | 1,818 | Saint-Porchaire | Charente-Arnoult-Cœur de Saintonge |
Related pages change
References change
- ↑ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ↑ "Historique de la Charente-Maritime". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Saintes (174)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ Décret n° 2014-269 du 27 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Charente-Maritime
- ↑ "Arrondissement de Saintes (174)". Géographie administrative et d'étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 28 May 2017.