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Haute-Marne
Coat of arms of the Haute-Marne department
Location
Administration
Department number:52
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Prefecture:Chaumont
Subprefectures:Langres
Saint-Dizier
Arrondissements:3
Cantons:32
Communes:432
President of the General Council:Bruno Sido
Statistics
PopulationRanked 87th
 -1999194,873
Population density:31/km
Land area:6211 km
French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km.
Haute-Marne is a department in the northeast of France named after the Marne River.

History

Haute-Marne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Champagne, Burgundy, Lorraine and Franche-Comté[1]

In 1814, Chaumont was the unwitting witness to the end of the First Empire. On the 1st of March, Prussia, Russia, England and Austria signed an accord forbidding any individual peace deal with Napoleon the 1st, and to fight until his final defeat.

During World War II, Haute-Marne was split under the German occupation. The canal which runs from the Marne to the Saône served as a border, dividing the department into west and east. The east was a "reserved zone", intended for the creation of a new German state, whereas to the west would be the traditional "occupied zone". Haute-Marne was finally liberated by the Allies, in the form of the division of General Leclerc, between August an September 1944.

Geography

Haute-Marne is part of the region of Champagne-Ardenne and is surrounded by the departments of Meuse, Vosges, Haute-Saône, Côte-d'Or, Aube, and Marne. The nearest big cities are Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basel, and Dijon.

The highest mountain is Haut-du-Sac, in the Langres Plateau, in the southwest of the department, which rise to 516 m (1,693 feet). The lowest points at 117m are found on the plains of Perthois and Der.[1]

The department is named after the Marne River, whose source is near Langres. This river covers 120 kilometres within the department. The department is to the east of the Parisian basin, and is characterised by a concentric sequence of cliff faces of varying geological origin, oriented northeast/southwest.

Tourism

The fortified town of Langres, the Renaissance castle of Joinville, and the village of Colombey-les-deux-Églises are all major attractions.

See also

References

1. ^ Haute-Marne, Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia. Research Machines plc. September 8, 2005. accessed on October 19, 2006.

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Région Champagne-Ardenne

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Capital Châlons-en-Champagne
Regional President Jean-Paul Bachy
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Location
Longitude 05° 08' 20" E
Latitude 48° 06' 42" N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Chaumont
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Location
Longitude 05° 20' 02" E
Latitude 47° 51' 48" N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Langres
Canton Langres (chief town)
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The 3 arrondissements of the Haute-Marne department are:
  1. Arrondissement of Chaumont, (prefecture of the Haute-Marne department: Chaumont) with 11 cantons and 160 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 71,584 in 1990, and was 69,223 in 1999, a decrease of 3.3%.

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The following is a list of the 32 cantons of the Haute-Marne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Chaumont (11 cantons)

  • Andelot-Blancheville
  • Arc-en-Barrois
  • Bourmont
  • Châteauvillain
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The following is a list of the 432 communes of the Haute-Marne département, in France.



INSEE Postal Commune
52001 52340 Ageville
52002 52400 Aigremont
52003 52700 Aillianville
52004 52230 Aingoulaincourt
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Rank Department Population (2006) Size (km²) Density (pop./km²)
2 Paris 2,164,000 105 20,605
4 Rhône 1,646,000 3,249 507
6 Seine-Saint-Denis 1,459,000 236 6,182
8 Yvelines 1,395,000 2,284 611
10 Val-de-Marne 1,279,000 245 5,220
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Origin Champagne-Ardenne
Mouth Seine
Basin countries France
Length 525 km

Avg. discharge 100 m³/s
Basin area 12,800 km² The Marne
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