Arrondissement of Melun


The arrondissement of Melun is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region. It has 59 communes. Its population is 278,808, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Melun, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Andrezel
  2. Argentières
  3. Beauvoir
  4. Blandy
  5. Boissettes
  6. Boissise-la-Bertrand
  7. Boissise-le-Roi
  8. Bombon
  9. Cesson
  10. Champdeuil
  11. Champeaux
  12. Le Châtelet-en-Brie
  13. Châtillon-la-Borde
  14. Chaumes-en-Brie
  15. Combs-la-Ville
  16. Coubert
  17. Courquetaine
  18. Crisenoy
  19. Dammarie-les-Lys
  20. Échouboulains
  21. Les Écrennes
  22. Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre
  23. Féricy
  24. Fontaine-le-Port
  25. Fouju
  26. Grisy-Suisnes
  27. Guignes
  28. Lieusaint
  29. Limoges-Fourches
  30. Lissy
  31. Livry-sur-Seine
  32. Machault
  33. Maincy
  34. Le Mée-sur-Seine
  35. Melun
  36. Moisenay
  37. Moissy-Cramayel
  38. Montereau-sur-le-Jard
  39. Nandy
  40. Ozouer-le-Voulgis
  41. Pamfou
  42. Pringy
  43. Réau
  44. La Rochette
  45. Rubelles
  46. Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry
  47. Saint-Germain-Laxis
  48. Saint-Méry
  49. Savigny-le-Temple
  50. Seine-Port
  51. Sivry-Courtry
  52. Soignolles-en-Brie
  53. Solers
  54. Valence-en-Brie
  55. Vaux-le-Pénil
  56. Vert-Saint-Denis
  57. Villiers-en-Bière
  58. Voisenon
  59. Yèbles

    History

The arrondissement of Melun was created in 1800. In 1993 it lost the two cantons of Roissy-en-Brie and Pontault-Combault to the new arrondissement of Noisiel. In 2006 it lost the canton of Rozay-en-Brie to the arrondissement of Provins. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Seine-et-Marne, it lost 10 communes to the arrondissement of Fontainebleau, 15 communes to the arrondissement of Provins and seven communes to the arrondissement of Torcy.
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 Melun were, as of January 2015:
  1. Brie-Comte-Robert
  2. Le Châtelet-en-Brie
  3. Combs-la-Ville
  4. Le Mée-sur-Seine
  5. Melun-Nord
  6. Melun-Sud
  7. Mormant
  8. Perthes
  9. Savigny-le-Temple
  10. Tournan-en-Brie