Arrondissement of Saumur


The arrondissement of Saumur is an arrondissement of France in the Maine-et-Loire departement in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 52 communes. Its population is 135,333, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Saumur, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Allonnes
  2. Antoigné
  3. Artannes-sur-Thouet
  4. Baugé-en-Anjou
  5. Beaufort-en-Anjou
  6. Bellevigne-les-Châteaux
  7. Blou
  8. Les Bois-d'Anjou
  9. Brain-sur-Allonnes
  10. La Breille-les-Pins
  11. Brossay
  12. Cizay-la-Madeleine
  13. Le Coudray-Macouard
  14. Courchamps
  15. Courléon
  16. Dénezé-sous-Doué
  17. Distré
  18. Doué-en-Anjou
  19. Épieds
  20. Fontevraud-l'Abbaye
  21. Gennes-Val-de-Loire
  22. La Lande-Chasles
  23. Longué-Jumelles
  24. Louresse-Rochemenier
  25. Mazé-Milon
  26. La Ménitré
  27. Montreuil-Bellay
  28. Montsoreau
  29. Mouliherne
  30. Neuillé
  31. Noyant-Villages
  32. Parnay
  33. La Pellerine
  34. Le Puy-Notre-Dame
  35. Rou-Marson
  36. Saint-Clément-des-Levées
  37. Saint-Just-sur-Dive
  38. Saint-Macaire-du-Bois
  39. Saint-Philbert-du-Peuple
  40. Saumur
  41. Souzay-Champigny
  42. Tuffalun
  43. Turquant
  44. Les Ulmes
  45. Varennes-sur-Loire
  46. Varrains
  47. Vaudelnay
  48. Vernantes
  49. Vernoil-le-Fourrier
  50. Verrie
  51. Villebernier
  52. Vivy

    History

The arrondissement of Saumur was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Maine-et-Loire, it gained four communes from the arrondissement of Angers, and it lost two communes to the arrondissement of Angers and nine communes to the arrondissement of Cholet.
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 Saumur were, as of January 2015:
  1. Allonnes
  2. Baugé-en-Anjou
  3. Doué-la-Fontaine
  4. Gennes
  5. Longué-Jumelles
  6. Montreuil-Bellay
  7. Noyant
  8. Saumur-Nord
  9. Saumur-Sud
  10. Vihiers