Arrondissement of Tours facts for kids
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Arrondissement of Tours
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Tours in Indre-et-Loire
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Country | France |
Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
Department | Indre-et-Loire |
Communes | 54 |
Prefecture | Tours |
INSEE code | 372 |
Area | |
• Total | 2,629.2 km2 (1,015.1 sq mi) |
Population
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• Total | 466,232 |
• Density | 177.328/km2 (459.279/sq mi) |
The arrondissement of Tours is an arrondissement of France, in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Tours.
History
When the Indre-et-Loire department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Tours was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Tours is the northern half of the Indre-et-Loire department. It is bordered to the north and east by the Loir-et-Cher department, to the southeast by the Loches arrondissement, to the southwest by the Chinon arrondissement, to the west by the Maine-et-Loire department and to the northwest by the Sarthe department.
The arrondissement of Tours is the largest arrondissement of the department in area, 2,629.2 km2 (1,015.1 sq mi), and the one with more people living in it with 466,232 inhabitants.
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.
The cantons of the arrondissement of Tours are:
- Amboise (3701)
- Ballan-Miré (3702)
- Bléré (3703)
- Château-Renault (3704)
- Joué-lès-Tours (3707)
- Langeais (3708) (partly)
- Montlouis-sur-Loire (3710)
- Monts (3711)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (3712)
- Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (3714)
- Tours-1 (3715)
- Tours-2 (3716)
- Tours-3 (3717)
- Tours-4 (3718)
- Vouvray (3719)
Communes
The arrondissement of Tours has 54 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
- Artannes-sur-Indre (37006)
- Azay-le-Rideau (37014)
- Azay-sur-Cher (37015)
- Ballan-Miré (37018)
- Berthenay (37025)
- Bréhémont (37038)
- Chambray-lès-Tours (37050)
- Chançay (37052)
- Chanceaux-sur-Choisille (37054)
- La Chapelle-aux-Naux (37056)
- Cheillé (37067)
- Druye (37099)
- Esvres (37104)
- Fondettes (37109)
- Joué-lès-Tours (37122)
- Larçay (37124)
- Lignières-de-Touraine (37128)
- Luynes (37139)
- La Membrolle-sur-Choisille (37151)
- Mettray (37152)
- Monnaie (37153)
- Montbazon (37154)
- Montlouis-sur-Loire (37156)
- Monts (37159)
- Notre-Dame-d'Oé (37172)
- Parçay-Meslay (37179)
- Pont-de-Ruan (37186)
- Reugny (37194)
- La Riche (37195)
- Rigny-Ussé (37197)
- Rivarennes (37200)
- Rochecorbon (37203)
- Saché (37205)
- Saint-Avertin (37208)
- Saint-Branchs (37211)
- Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois (37212)
- Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (37214)
- Saint-Étienne-de-Chigny (37217)
- Saint-Genouph (37219)
- Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (37233)
- Savonnières (37243)
- Sorigny (37250)
- Thilouze (37257)
- Tours (37261)
- Truyes (37263)
- Vallères (37264)
- Veigné (37266)
- Véretz (37267)
- Vernou-sur-Brenne (37270)
- Villaines-les-Rochers (37271)
- Villandry (37272)
- La Ville-aux-Dames (37273)
- Villeperdue (37278)
- Vouvray (37281)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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37261 | Tours | 136,125 | Tours-1, Tours-2, Tours-3, Tours-4 | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37122 | Joué-lès-Tours | 37,748 | Joué-lès-Tours | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37214 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | 15,994 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37233 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | 15,538 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37208 | Saint-Avertin | 14,985 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37050 | Chambray-lès-Tours | 11,109 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37156 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | 10,574 | Montlouis-sur-Loire | Touraine-Est Vallées |
37195 | La Riche | 10,434 | Ballan-Miré | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37109 | Fondettes | 10,427 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | CU Tour(S) Plus |
37018 | Ballan-Miré | 7,900 | Ballan-Miré | CU Tour(S) Plus |
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See also
In Spanish: Distrito de Tours para niños