Chartres
Arrondissement
Location within the region Centre-Val de Loire
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Eure-et-Loir
No. of communes	148
Prefecture	Chartres
Area	2,129.5 km2 (822.2 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	209,576
INSEE code	281

The arrondissement of Chartres is an arrondissement of France, in the Eure-et-Loir department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Chartres.

When the Eure-et-Loir department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Chartres was part of that original department.^[2]

The arrondissement of Chartres is the most eastern of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It is the largest arrondissement of the department, 2,129.5 km² (822.2 sq mi) and the one with more people living in it, with 207,869 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Dreux, to the northeast by the Yvelines department, to the east by the Essonne department, to the southeast by the Loiret department, to the south by the arrondissement of Châteaudun and to the west by the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou.

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,^[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Chartres are:

The arrondissement of Chartres has 151 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː^[4]

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

• Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
• List of arrondissements of France

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