Arrondissement of Blois


The arrondissement of Blois is an arrondissement of France in the Loir-et-Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has 93 communes. Its population is 150,805, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Blois are:
  1. Autainville
  2. Avaray
  3. Averdon
  4. Bauzy
  5. Beauce-la-Romaine
  6. Binas
  7. Blois
  8. Boisseau
  9. Bracieux
  10. Briou
  11. Candé-sur-Beuvron
  12. Cellettes
  13. Chailles
  14. Chambord
  15. Champigny-en-Beauce
  16. La Chapelle-Saint-Martin-en-Plaine
  17. La Chapelle-Vendômoise
  18. Chaumont-sur-Loire
  19. La Chaussée-Saint-Victor
  20. Cheverny
  21. Chitenay
  22. Conan
  23. Concriers
  24. Cormeray
  25. Courbouzon
  26. Cour-Cheverny
  27. Cour-sur-Loire
  28. Crouy-sur-Cosson
  29. Épiais
  30. La Ferté-Saint-Cyr
  31. Fontaines-en-Sologne
  32. Fossé
  33. Françay
  34. Herbault
  35. Huisseau-sur-Cosson
  36. Josnes
  37. Lancôme
  38. Landes-le-Gaulois
  39. Lestiou
  40. Lorges
  41. La Madeleine-Villefrouin
  42. Marchenoir
  43. Marolles
  44. Maslives
  45. Maves
  46. Menars
  47. Mer
  48. Mesland
  49. Monteaux
  50. Monthou-sur-Bièvre
  51. Les Montils
  52. Montlivault
  53. Mont-près-Chambord
  54. Muides-sur-Loire
  55. Mulsans
  56. Neuvy
  57. Oucques la Nouvelle
  58. Le Plessis-l'Échelle
  59. Rhodon
  60. Rilly-sur-Loire
  61. Roches
  62. Saint-Bohaire
  63. Saint-Claude-de-Diray
  64. Saint-Cyr-du-Gault
  65. Saint-Denis-sur-Loire
  66. Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire
  67. Saint-Étienne-des-Guérets
  68. Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt
  69. Saint-Laurent-des-Bois
  70. Saint-Laurent-Nouan
  71. Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce
  72. Saint-Lubin-en-Vergonnois
  73. Saint-Sulpice-de-Pommeray
  74. Sambin
  75. Santenay
  76. Séris
  77. Seur
  78. Suèvres
  79. Talcy
  80. Thoury
  81. Tour-en-Sologne
  82. Valaire
  83. Valencisse
  84. Valloire-sur-Cisse
  85. Veuzain-sur-Loire
  86. Vievy-le-Rayé
  87. Villebarou
  88. Villefrancœur
  89. Villeneuve-Frouville
  90. Villerbon
  91. Villermain
  92. Villexanton
  93. Vineuil

    History

The arrondissement of Blois was created in 1800. In 2007 it lost the canton of Saint-Aignan to the arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Loir-et-Cher, it gained three communes from the arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay and four communes from the arrondissement of Vendôme, and it lost 17 communes to the arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay and two communes to the arrondissement of Vendôme. In January 2019 it lost the commune Courmemin to the arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay.
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 Blois were, as of January 2015:
  1. Blois-1
  2. Blois-2
  3. Blois-3
  4. Blois-4
  5. Blois-5
  6. Bracieux
  7. Contres
  8. Herbault
  9. Marchenoir
  10. Mer
  11. Montrichard
  12. Ouzouer-le-Marché
  13. Saint-Aignan
  14. Vineuil