Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé

When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the arrondissement of Colmar was part of that original department.^[2]

In 1871, the Haut-Rhin department became part of Germany. In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with 7 arrondissements, including the new arrondissements of Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne and Ribeauvillé. The arrondissements Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the arrondissement of Colmar.^[2]

In 2015, the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé was eliminated and the name of the arrondissement of Colmar was changed to Colmar-Ribeauvillé.

The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the north by the Bas-Rhin department, to the east by Germany, to the southeast by the Mulhouse arrondissement, to the south by the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement and to the west by the Vosges department.

The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the largest of the arrondissements of the department with an area of 1,127.3 km² (435.3 sq mi). It has a population of 200,243 inhabitants and a population density of 177.6 inhabitants/km².^[3]

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,^[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There are 5 cantons in the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé:

The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé has 98 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː^[5]

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

• Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
• List of arrondissements of France

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