NEVERS, an arrondissement of the department of the Nièvre, in France, extending over 971 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons and 109 communes. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Loire, where the Nevers joins that stream. It is beautifully situated on an amphitheatre rising from a bend in the river. The cathedral is a fine ancient building. In 1837 it contained 15,085 inhabitants. There are many china manufactories, several iron furnaces, some glass-houses, and many makers of linen and woollen cloths, of cutlery and common jewellery, and it has a considerable trade by the navigable rivers. Long. 3. 4. 11. E. Lat. 46. 59. 17. N.