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Code: 67
Region: Alsace
Traditional province: Alsace
Bordering departments: Moselle,
Haut-Rhin,
Vosges
Bordering country: Germany (Federal
States of Rhineland-Palatinate and
Baden-Württemberg)
Area: 4,755 km2
Population (1995): 994,100 inhabitants
Préfecture:
Strasbourg
Sous-préfectures: Haguenau,
Molsheim, Saverne, Sélestat,
Wissembourg
Subdivisions: 7 arrondissements, 44 cantons, 519 communes.
The department is named ("Lower-Rhine") after the river Rhin.
The department is made of Lower-Alsace, to which the cantons of La
Petite-Pierre and Sarre-Union, former possessions of the House of
Deux-Ponts and Hanau, were added in 1792.