When the Loiret department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Orléans was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
The arrondissement of Orléans is in the southwest of the Loiret, where the natural regions of Beauce, Val de Loire and Sologne meet. It is the largest arrondissement of the department, 2,945.8 square kilometres (1,137.4 square miles) and the one with more people living in it, with 435,676 inhabitants.
It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Pithiviers, to the northeast and east by the arrondissement of Montargis, to the southeast by the Cher department, to the south and west by the Loir-et-Cher department and to the northwest by the Eure-et-Loir department.
Composition
Cantons
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.