Arrondissement of Saintes
| Arrondissement of Saintes | |
|---|---|
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Charente-Maritime |
| Sub-prefecture | Saintes |
| Residents | 116,443 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
| Population density | 88 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 1,320.29 km² |
| Cantons | 6th |
| Communities | 88 |
| INSEE code | 174 |
 Location of the Arrondissement Saintes in the Charente-Maritime department |
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The Arrondissement Saintes is an administrative unit of the department of Charente-Maritime in the French region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Sub-prefecture is Saintes .
It comprises 88 municipalities from six different cantons .
Cantons
- Chaniers (with 17 out of 27 parishes)
- Saintes
- Saint-Porchaire
- Saintonge Estuaire (with 22 out of 23 parishes)
- Saujon (with 7 out of 9 municipalities)
- Thénac (with 21 out of 25 municipalities)
Communities
The municipalities of the Arrondissement of Saintes are:
| 1. Arces (17015) | 2. Balanzac (17030) | 3. Barzan (17034) | 4. Berneuil (17044) |
| 5. Beurlay (17045) | 6. Boutenac-Touvent (17060) | 7. Brie-sous-Mortagne (17068) | 8. Burie (17072) |
| 9. Bussac-sur-Charente (17073) | 10. Chaniers (17086) | 11. Chenac-Saint-Seurin-d'Uzet (17098) | 12. Chérac (17100) |
| 13. Chermignac (17102) | 14. Colombiers (17115) | 15. Corme-Écluse (17119) | 16. Corme-Royal (17120) |
| 17. Courcoury (17128) | 18. Cozes (17131) | 19. Cravans (17133) | 20. Crazannes (17134) |
| 21. Dompierre-sur-Charente (17141) | 22. Écoyeux (17147) | 23rd Écurat (17148) | 24. Épargnes (17152) |
| 25. Floirac (17160) | 26 Fontcouverte (17164) | 27. Geay (17171) | 28. Gémozac (17172) |
| 29. Grézac (17183) | 30. Jazennes (17196) | 31. La Chapelle-des-Pots (17089) | 32. La Clisse (17112) |
| 33. La Jard (17191) | 34. La Vallée (17455) | 35. Le Chay (17097) | 36. Le Douhet (17143) |
| 37. Le Seure (17426) | 38. Les Essards (17154) | 39. Les Gonds (17179) | 40. Luchat (17214) |
| 41. Médis (17228) | 42. Meursac (17232) | 43. Migron (17235) | 44. Montils (17242) |
| 45. Montpellier-de-Médillan (17244) | 46. Mortagne-sur-Gironde (17248) | 47. Nancras (17255) | 48. Nieul-lès-Saintes (17262) |
| 49. Pessines (17275) | 50. Pisany (17278) | 51. Plassay (17280) | 52. Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult (17284) |
| 53. Port-d'Envaux (17285) | 54. Préguillac (17289) | 55. Rétaud (17296) | 56. Rioux (17298) |
| 57. Romegoux (17302) | 58. Rouffiac (17304) | 59. Sablonceaux (17307) | 60. Saint-André-de-Lidon (17310) |
| 61. Saint-Bris-des-Bois (17313) | 62. Saint-Césaire (17314) | 63. Sainte-gem (17330) | 64.Sainte -Radegonde (17389) |
| 65. Saintes (17415) | 66. Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux (17336) | 67. Saint-Porchaire (17387) | 68. Saint-Romain-de-Benet (17393) |
| 69. Saint-Sauvant (17395) | 70. Saint-Sever-de-Saintonge (17400) | 71. Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille (17404) | 72. Saint-Sulpice-d'Arnoult (17408) |
| 73. Saint-Vaize (17412) | 74. Saujon (17421) | 75. Semussac (17425) | 76. Soulignonne (17431) |
| 77. Talmont-sur-Gironde (17437) | 78. Tanzac (17438) | 79. Tesson (17441) | 80. Thaims (17442) |
| 81. Thénac (17444) | 82. Thézac (17445) | 83. Trizay (17453) | 84. Varzay (17460) |
| 85. Vénérand (17462) | 86. Villars-en-Pons (17469) | 87. Villars-les-Bois (17470) | 88. Virollet (17479) |
Reorganization of the arrondissements in 2017
As a result of the reorganization of the arrondissements in 2017, the arrondissement Saintes became the area of the 17 municipalities Avy , Belluire , Biron , Bougneau , Brives-sur-Charente , Chadenac , Coulonges , Échebrune , Fléac-sur-Seugne , Marignac , Mazerolles , Pérignac , Assigned to the arrondissement of Jonzac , Pons , Saint-Léger , Saint-Quantin-de-Rançanne , Saint-Seurin-de-Palenne and Salignac-sur-Charente .
Instead, the area of the municipality of Meschers-sur-Gironde changed from the Arrondissement Saintes to the Arrondissement Rochefort .
Former municipalities since the nationwide reorganization of the cantons
- Until 2018: Saint-Romain-sur-Gironde