Arrondissement of Château-Gontier


The arrondissement of Château-Gontier is an arrondissement of France in the Mayenne department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 76 communes. Its population is 73,769, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Château-Gontier, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Arquenay
  2. Astillé
  3. Athée
  4. Ballots
  5. Bannes
  6. La Bazouge-de-Chemeré
  7. Bazougers
  8. Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf
  9. Bierné-les-Villages
  10. Le Bignon-du-Maine
  11. La Boissière
  12. Bouchamps-lès-Craon
  13. Bouère
  14. Bouessay
  15. Brains-sur-les-Marches
  16. Le Buret
  17. La Chapelle-Craonnaise
  18. Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne
  19. Châtelain
  20. Chemazé
  21. Chémeré-le-Roi
  22. Chérancé
  23. Congrier
  24. Cosmes
  25. Cossé-en-Champagne
  26. Cossé-le-Vivien
  27. Coudray
  28. Courbeveille
  29. Craon
  30. La Cropte
  31. Cuillé
  32. Daon
  33. Denazé
  34. Fontaine-Couverte
  35. Fromentières
  36. Gastines
  37. Gennes-Longuefuye
  38. Grez-en-Bouère
  39. Houssay
  40. Laubrières
  41. Livré-la-Touche
  42. Maisoncelles-du-Maine
  43. Marigné-Peuton
  44. Mée
  45. Ménil
  46. Méral
  47. Meslay-du-Maine
  48. Niafles
  49. Origné
  50. Peuton
  51. Pommerieux
  52. Préaux
  53. Prée-d'Anjou
  54. Quelaines-Saint-Gault
  55. Renazé
  56. La Roche-Neuville
  57. La Roë
  58. La Rouaudière
  59. Ruillé-Froid-Fonds
  60. Saint-Aignan-sur-Roë
  61. Saint-Brice
  62. Saint-Charles-la-Forêt
  63. Saint-Denis-d'Anjou
  64. Saint-Denis-du-Maine
  65. Saint-Erblon
  66. Saint-Loup-du-Dorat
  67. Saint-Martin-du-Limet
  68. Saint-Michel-de-la-Roë
  69. Saint-Poix
  70. Saint-Quentin-les-Anges
  71. Saint-Saturnin-du-Limet
  72. La Selle-Craonnaise
  73. Senonnes
  74. Simplé
  75. Val-du-Maine
  76. Villiers-Charlemagne

    History

The arrondissement of Château-Gontier was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1942. At the March 2016 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Mayenne, it gained 14 communes from the arrondissement of Laval.
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 Château-Gontier were, as of January 2015:
  1. Bierné
  2. Château-Gontier-Est
  3. Château-Gontier-Ouest
  4. Cossé-le-Vivien
  5. Craon
  6. Grez-en-Bouère
  7. Saint-Aignan-sur-Roë