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![]() Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire | |
Country | France |
Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
Department | Loiret |
No. of communes | 79 |
Subprefecture | Pithiviers |
Area | 1,192.7 km2 (460.5 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | 63,234 |
INSEE code | 453 |
The arrondissement of Pithiviers is an arrondissement of France, in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Pithiviers.
When the Loiret department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Pithiviers was part of that original department.[2]
The arrondissement was eliminated in 1926 but it was made an arrondissement again in 1942.
The arrondissement of Pithiviers is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Loiret department. It is the smallest arrondissement of the department, 1,198.1 square kilometres (462.6 square miles) and the one with fewest people living in it, with 63,280 inhabitants.
It is bordered to the north by the Essonne department, to the east by the Seine-et-Marne department, to the southeast by the arrondissement of Montargis, to the south by the arrondissement of Orléans and to the west by the Eure-et-Loir department.
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
The cantons in the arrondissement of Pithiviers are Malesherbes ((4509)) and, partly, Pithiviers ((4517)).
The arrondissement of Pithiviers has 79 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
INSEE code |
Commune | Population[5] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
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45252 | Pithiviers | 9,054 | Pithiviers | Le Pithiverais |
45191 | Le Malesherbois | 8,098 | Malesherbes | Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais |
45258 | Puiseaux | 3,368 | Malesherbes | Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais |
45119 | Dadonville | 2,466 | Pithiviers | Le Pithiverais |
45030 | Beaune-la-Rolande | 1,984 | Malesherbes | Le Pithiverais-Gâtinais |
45095 | Chilleurs-aux-Bois | 1,961 | Malesherbes | Le Pithiverais |
45253 | Pithiviers-le-Vieil | 1,809 | Pithiviers | Le Pithiverais |
45310 | Sermaises | 1,588 | Pithiviers | Le Pithiverais |
45025 | Bazoches-les-Gallerandes | 1,503 | Pithiviers | La Plaine du Nord Loiret |