Arrondissement of Riom


The arrondissement of Riom is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 155 communes. Its population is 135,164, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Riom, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Aigueperse
  2. Les Ancizes-Comps
  3. Ars-les-Favets
  4. Artonne
  5. Aubiat
  6. Ayat-sur-Sioule
  7. Bas-et-Lezat
  8. Beaumont-lès-Randan
  9. Beauregard-Vendon
  10. Biollet
  11. Blot-l'Église
  12. Bourg-Lastic
  13. Briffons
  14. Bromont-Lamothe
  15. Bussières
  16. Bussières-et-Pruns
  17. Buxières-sous-Montaigut
  18. La Celle
  19. La Cellette
  20. Chambaron-sur-Morge
  21. Champs
  22. Chanat-la-Mouteyre
  23. Chapdes-Beaufort
  24. Chappes
  25. Chaptuzat
  26. Charbonnières-les-Varennes
  27. Charbonnières-les-Vieilles
  28. Charensat
  29. Châteauneuf-les-Bains
  30. Château-sur-Cher
  31. Châtel-Guyon
  32. Chavaroux
  33. Le Cheix
  34. Cisternes-la-Forêt
  35. Clerlande
  36. Combrailles
  37. Combronde
  38. Condat-en-Combraille
  39. La Crouzille
  40. Davayat
  41. Durmignat
  42. Effiat
  43. Ennezat
  44. Entraigues
  45. Enval
  46. Espinasse
  47. Fernoël
  48. Giat
  49. Gimeaux
  50. La Goutelle
  51. Gouttières
  52. Herment
  53. Jozerand
  54. Landogne
  55. Lapeyrouse
  56. Lastic
  57. Limons
  58. Lisseuil
  59. Loubeyrat
  60. Lussat
  61. Luzillat
  62. Malauzat
  63. Malintrat
  64. Manzat
  65. Marcillat
  66. Maringues
  67. Marsat
  68. Les Martres-d'Artière
  69. Martres-sur-Morge
  70. Menat
  71. Ménétrol
  72. Messeix
  73. Miremont
  74. Mons
  75. Montaigut
  76. Montcel
  77. Montel-de-Gelat
  78. Montfermy
  79. Montpensier
  80. Moureuille
  81. Mozac
  82. Neuf-Église
  83. Pessat-Villeneuve
  84. Pionsat
  85. Pontaumur
  86. Pontgibaud
  87. Pouzol
  88. Prompsat
  89. Prondines
  90. Pulvérières
  91. Puy-Saint-Gulmier
  92. Le Quartier
  93. Queuille
  94. Randan
  95. Riom
  96. Roche-d'Agoux
  97. Saint-Agoulin
  98. Saint-André-le-Coq
  99. Saint-Angel
  100. Saint-Avit
  101. Saint-Beauzire
  102. Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom
  103. Saint-Clément-de-Régnat
  104. Saint-Denis-Combarnazat
  105. Sainte-Christine
  106. Saint-Éloy-les-Mines
  107. Saint-Étienne-des-Champs
  108. Saint-Gal-sur-Sioule
  109. Saint-Genès-du-Retz
  110. Saint-Georges-de-Mons
  111. Saint-Germain-près-Herment
  112. Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne
  113. Saint-Hilaire
  114. Saint-Hilaire-la-Croix
  115. Saint-Hilaire-les-Monges
  116. Saint-Ignat
  117. Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur
  118. Saint-Julien-la-Geneste
  119. Saint-Laure
  120. Saint-Maigner
  121. Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat
  122. Saint-Myon
  123. Saint-Ours
  124. Saint-Pardoux
  125. Saint-Pierre-le-Chastel
  126. Saint-Priest-Bramefant
  127. Saint-Priest-des-Champs
  128. Saint-Quintin-sur-Sioule
  129. Saint-Rémy-de-Blot
  130. Saint-Sulpice
  131. Saint-Sylvestre-Pragoulin
  132. Sardon
  133. Sauret-Besserve
  134. Sauvagnat
  135. Savennes
  136. Sayat
  137. Servant
  138. Surat
  139. Teilhède
  140. Teilhet
  141. Thuret
  142. Tortebesse
  143. Tralaigues
  144. Varennes-sur-Morge
  145. Vensat
  146. Vergheas
  147. Verneugheol
  148. Villeneuve-les-Cerfs
  149. Villosanges
  150. Virlet
  151. Vitrac
  152. Voingt
  153. Volvic
  154. Youx
  155. Yssac-la-Tourette

    History

The arrondissement of Riom was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Puy-de-Dôme, it gained 17 communes from the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand and three communes from the arrondissement of Thiers, and it lost one commune to the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand.
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 Riom were, as of January 2015:
  1. Aigueperse
  2. Combronde
  3. Ennezat
  4. Manzat
  5. Menat
  6. Montaigut
  7. Pionsat
  8. Pontaumur
  9. Pontgibaud
  10. Randan
  11. Riom-Est
  12. Riom-Ouest
  13. Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne