Arrondissement of Argenteuil


The arrondissement of Argenteuil is an arrondissement of France in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region. It has 17 communes. Its population is 412,334, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Argenteuil, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Argenteuil
  2. Beauchamp
  3. Bessancourt
  4. Bezons
  5. Cormeilles-en-Parisis
  6. Eaubonne
  7. Ermont
  8. Franconville
  9. Frépillon
  10. La Frette-sur-Seine
  11. Herblay-sur-Seine
  12. Montigny-lès-Cormeilles
  13. Pierrelaye
  14. Le Plessis-Bouchard
  15. Saint-Leu-la-Forêt
  16. Sannois
  17. Taverny

    History

The arrondissement of Argenteuil was created in 1966 as part of the department Seine-et-Oise. In 1968 it became part of the new department Val-d'Oise. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Val-d'Oise, it received 10 communes from the arrondissement of Pontoise.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Argenteuil were, as of January 2015:
  1. Argenteuil-Est
  2. Argenteuil-Nord
  3. Argenteuil-Ouest
  4. Bezons
  5. Cormeilles-en-Parisis
  6. Herblay
  7. Sannois