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Code: 68
Region: Alsace
Traditional province: Alsace
Bordering departments: Bas-Rhin,
Vosges, Territoire de
Belfort
Bordering countries: Germany (Federal
State of Baden-Württemberg),
Switzerland (cantons of Basle-City,
Basle-Land, Bern,
Jura and Solothurn)
Area: 3,525 km2
Population (1995): 695,700 inhabitants
Préfecture: Colmar
Sous-préfectures: Altkirch, Guebwiller,
Mulhouse, Ribeauvillé, Thann
Subdivisions: 6 arrondissements, 31 cantons, 377 communes.
The department is named ("Upper-Rhine") after the river
Rhin.
The department is made of Upper-Alsace, to which the former Republic
of Mulhouse was incorporated in 1792.