page_title: Mulhouse
section_title: Principal economic activities
hierarchical_section_title: Mulhouse / Principal economic activities
caption_attribution_description: English: mulhousian main economical areas Français&#160;: Principales zones d'activité économique de mulhouse - Image satellite provenant de la NASA
context_page_description: Mulhouse is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders.
  With a population of 109,443 in 2017, and 285,121 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2016, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg. Mulhouse is the principal commune of the 39 communes which make up the communauté d'agglomération of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération.
  Mulhouse is famous for its museums, especially the Cité de l'Automobile and the Cité du Train, respectively the largest automobile and railway museums in the world. An industrial town nicknamed "the French Manchester", Mulhouse is also the main seat of the Upper Alsace University, where the secretariat of the European Physical Society is found.
context_section_description: As early as the mid-19th century, Mulhouse was known as "the industrial capital of Alsace", the "city with a hundred chimneys" (cité aux cent cheminées) and "the French Manchester".
  Automobile industry (Peugeot's Mulhouse factory is the largest employer in Alsace)
  Chemical industry (ICMD)
  Electronics (Clemessy)
  Engineering (SACM – Wärtsilä)
  Between 1909 and 1914 there was an aircraft manufacturer, Aviatik, in Mulhouse.
caption: Main commercial areas
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