The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is an arrondissement of France, in the Marne department, Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Sainte-Menehould.
History
When the Marne department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould was part of that original department.
In 1926, the arrondissement was eliminated but it became again an arrondissement of the Marne department in 1940.
Geography
The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is in the northeast of the Marne department. It is bordered to the north by the Ardennes department, to the east by the Meuse department, to the south by the Vitry-le-François arrondissement and to the west by the Châlons-en-Champagne arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is the smallest arrondissement of the department with an area of and the one with fewest people living in it (13,821 inhabitants), for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There is only one canton in the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould: the canton of Argonne Suippe et Vesle; the communes of this canton are in the arrondissements of Châlons-en-Champagne and of Sainte-Menehould.
Communes
The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould has 67 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Argers (51015) Auve (51027) Belval-en-Argonne (51047) Berzieux (51053) Binarville (51062) Braux-Saint-Remy (51083) Braux-Sainte-Cohière (51082) Cernay-en-Dormois (51104) Chaudefontaine (51139) Châtrices (51138) Contault (51166) Courtémont (51191) Dampierre-le-Château (51206) Dommartin-Dampierre (51211) Dommartin-Varimont (51214) Dommartin-sous-Hans (51213) Florent-en-Argonne (51253) Fontaine-en-Dormois (51255) Givry-en-Argonne (51272) Gizaucourt (51274) Gratreuil (51280) Hans (51283) Herpont (51292) La Chapelle-Felcourt (51126) La Croix-en-Champagne (51197) La Neuville-au-Pont (51399) La Neuville-aux-Bois (51397) Laval-sur-Tourbe (51317) Le Chemin (51143) Le Châtelier (51133) Le Vieil-Dampierre (51619) Les Charmontois (51132) Maffrécourt (51336) Malmy (51341) Massiges (51355) Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus (51368) Moiremont (51370) Noirlieu (51404) Passavant-en-Argonne (51424) Rapsécourt (51452) Remicourt (51456) Rouvroy-Ripont (51470) Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe (51491) Saint-Mard-sur-Auve (51498) Saint-Mard-sur-le-Mont (51500) Saint-Remy-sur-Bussy (51515) Saint-Thomas-en-Argonne (51519) Sainte-Menehould (51507) Servon-Melzicourt (51533) Sivry-Ante (51537) Somme-Bionne (51543) Somme-Tourbe (51547) Somme-Yèvre (51549) Sommepy-Tahure (51544) Tilloy-et-Bellay (51572) Valmy (51588) Verrières (51610) Vienne-la-Ville (51620) Vienne-le-Château (51621) Ville-sur-Tourbe (51640) Villers-en-Argonne (51632) Virginy (51646) Voilemont (51650) Wargemoulin-Hurlus (51659) Éclaires (51222) Élise-Daucourt (51228) Épense (51229)
The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are: