an arrondissement of the department of the Cher, in France, extending over 209,684 hectares, equal to 731 square miles. It comprehends eight cantons, and seventy-six communes, and in 1836 the inhabitants amounted to 70,907. The capital is the city of the same name, upon an elevation rising from the river Loire. In 1836 it contained 3482 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in making hats and hosiery, and in working some marble quarries in the neighbourhood. Long. 2. 45. 15. E. Lat. 47. 16. 53. N.