Arrondissement of Saint-Flour

The arrondissement of Saint-Flour is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Cantal "département" in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Flour.
History.
When the "arrondissements" were created in 1800, Saint-Flour was one of them in the Cantal department.
Geography.
The "arrondissement" of Saint-Flour is in the most eastern "arrondissement" of the department and has an area of , the largest in the department, and a population of 38,079 inhabitants with a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" is bordered to the north by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the Haute-Loire department, to the southeast by the Lozère department (Occitanie), to the southeast by the Aveyron department (Occitanie) and to the west by the "arrondissements" of Aurillac and Mauriac.
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".
In the "arrondissement" of Saint-Flour, there is only one canton where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement": the Riom-ès-Montagnes. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements":
Communes.
The "arrondissement" of Saint-Flour has 106 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are: