Alsace

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Alsace
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Kintra Fraunce
PrefecturStrasbourg
Departments
Govrenment
 • PresesPhilippe Richert (2010–) (UMP)
Area
 • Total8280 km2 (3,200 sq mi)
Population
 (2006)[1]
 • Total1,815,488
 • Density220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
GDP (2007)[2]Rankit {{{GDP_rank}}}
Tot€48 billion (US${{{GDP_US$}}} bn)
Per capita€26,500 (US${{{GDP_per_capita_US$}}})
NUTS RegionFR4
Websiteregion-alsace.eu

Alsace (French: Alsace [alzas]; Alsatian: Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass, pre-1996: Elsaß, IPA: [ˈɛlzas]; Laitin: Alsatia) is a cultural region (nou pairt o Grand Est) in land aurie (8,280 km²), an the smawest in metropolitan Fraunce. It is the seivent-maist densely populatit region in Fraunce an third maist densely populate region in metropolitan Fraunce, wi ca. 220 indwellers per km² (tot population in 2006: 1,815,488; 1 Januar 2008 estimate: 1,836,000). Alsace is on Fraunce's eastren mairch an on the wast bank o the upper Rhine adjacent tae Germany an Swisserland. The poleetical, economic an cultural caipital as weel as lairgest ceety o Alsace is Strasbourg. Acause that ceety is the seat o dozens o internaitional organisations an bodies, Alsace is poleetically ane o the maist important regions in the European Union.

Mulhouse[eedit | eedit soorce]

Mulhouse is the seicound biggest ceety efter Strasbourg. Mulhouse as aboot 100 000 fowk (4 times less then manchester) Mulhouse haes a wheen museum lik the museum o cars or the train museum.

Major communities[eedit | eedit soorce]

German oreeginal names in brackets gif French names are different


Sister provinces[eedit | eedit soorce]

Thare is an accord de coopération internationale atween Alsace an the follaein regions:[3]

Footnotes[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. "Insee – Résultats du recensement de la population – 2006 – Alsace" (in (in French)). Recensement.insee.fr. Archived frae the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 16 Apryle 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  2. "GDP per inhabitant in 2006 ranged from 25% of the EU27 average in Nord-Est in Romania to 336% in Inner London" (PDF). Eurostat.
  3. Les Accords de coopération entre l’Alsace et... Archived 2009-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (in French)