Arrondissement of Le Blanc


The arrondissement of Le Blanc is an arrondissement of France in the Indre department in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has 57 communes. Its population is 31,714, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Le Blanc, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Azay-le-Ferron
  2. Beaulieu
  3. Bélâbre
  4. Le Blanc
  5. Bonneuil
  6. Chaillac
  7. Chalais
  8. La Châtre-Langlin
  9. Chazelet
  10. Chitray
  11. Ciron
  12. Concremiers
  13. Douadic
  14. Dunet
  15. Fontgombault
  16. Ingrandes
  17. Lignac
  18. Lingé
  19. Lurais
  20. Lureuil
  21. Luzeret
  22. Martizay
  23. Mauvières
  24. Mérigny
  25. Mézières-en-Brenne
  26. Migné
  27. Mouhet
  28. Néons-sur-Creuse
  29. Nuret-le-Ferron
  30. Obterre
  31. Oulches
  32. Parnac
  33. Paulnay
  34. La Pérouille
  35. Pouligny-Saint-Pierre
  36. Preuilly-la-Ville
  37. Prissac
  38. Rivarennes
  39. Rosnay
  40. Roussines
  41. Ruffec
  42. Sacierges-Saint-Martin
  43. Saint-Aigny
  44. Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
  45. Saint-Civran
  46. Sainte-Gemme
  47. Saint-Gaultier
  48. Saint-Gilles
  49. Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize
  50. Saint-Michel-en-Brenne
  51. Saulnay
  52. Sauzelles
  53. Thenay
  54. Tilly
  55. Tournon-Saint-Martin
  56. Vigoux
  57. Villiers

    History

The arrondissement of Le Blanc was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Indre, it gained the commune La Pérouille from the arrondissement of Châteauroux.
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 Le Blanc were, as of January 2015:
  1. Bélâbre
  2. Le Blanc
  3. Mézières-en-Brenne
  4. Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
  5. Saint-Gaultier
  6. Tournon-Saint-Martin