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Grand Est [3] (French: [ɡʁɑ̃t‿ɛst] ⓘ; [4] English: "Great East") is an administrative region in northeastern France.It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (pronounced [alzas ʃɑ̃paɲ aʁdɛn lɔʁɛn]; ACAL or, less commonly, ALCALIA), [5] as a result ...
Troyes (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about 140 km (87 mi) south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near the Orient Forest Regional Natural Park.
Moselle is part of the current region of Grand Est and is surrounded by the French departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Bas-Rhin, as well as Germany (states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate) and Luxembourg in the north. Parts of Moselle belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. The following are the most important rivers: Moselle
Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany and Luxembourg , [ 6 ] the city forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion .
Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 860,744 in 2020, [4] making it the eighth-largest metro area in France and home to 14% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of roughly 1,000,000 in 2022.
Meuse is a department in northeastern France and is part of the region of Grand Est. The capital and largest town in the department is Bar-le-Duc , and other large towns are Commercy and Verdun .
Vosges (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after which it is named. Vosges consists of three arrondissements, 17 cantons and 507 communes, [3] including Domrémy-la-Pucelle, where Joan of Arc was born. [4]
Meurthe-et-Moselle (French pronunciation: [mœʁt e mɔzɛl] ⓘ) is a département in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, Moselle and Bas-Rhin and it borders the Belgian province of ...