Saint-Dizier

Saint-Dizier is a commune of France, and a subprefecture of the Haute-Marne department in the Grand Est region.

Geography
The city of Saint-Dizier is on the northern part of the Haute-Marne department in northeast France near the Meuse and the Marne departments.

It has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

+ Distance from Saint-Dizier to other cities Paris  Strasbourg  Bordeaux  Toulouse  Montpellier  Lyon  Nantes   Marseille               

+ Saint-Dizier and its neighboring communes 350px|Map of the commune of Saint-Dizier

The commune of Saint-Dizier is surrounded by the communes Trois-Fontaines-l'Abbaye, Chancenay, Bettancourt-la-Ferrée, Ancerville (Meuse department), Chamouilley, Eurville-Bienville, Troisfontaines-la-Ville, Humbécourt, Laneuville-au-Pont, Moëslains, Valcourt, Hallignicourt and Villiers-en-Lieu.

Two rivers flow through the city: the Ornel and the Marne. The city is at about  from Lac du Der-Chantecoq, the largest man-made lake of Western Europe.

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Saint-Dizier is a "Marine West Coast Climate" and of the subtype "Cfb". The average amount of precipitation for the year is  and the average temperature for the year  is .

Population
The inhabitants of Saint-Dizier are known, in French, as Bragards (women: Bragardes) or Bragars (women: Bragares).

The city of Saint-Dizier has a population, in 2014, of 25,505; it is the commune of Haute-Marne with more people living in it, even more than Chaumont (22,560 inhabitants) that is the prefecture of the department. Its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Dizier

Saint-Dizier forms, with other five communes, the urban area of Saint-Dizier with a population of 32,086 inhabitants (2014) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Saint-Diziert, formed by 43 communes, with a population of 53,790 inhabitants (2014) and an area of .

 Administration 
Saint-Dizier is a subprefecture of the Haute-Marne department, the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Dizier and the administrative centre () of three cantons:
 Saint-Dizier-1 formed by 10 communes and part of Saint-Dizier, with 12,406 inhabitants (2014).
 Saint-Dizier-2 formed by a part of Saint-Dizier, with 11,674 inhabitants (2014).
 Saint-Dizier-3 formed by 2 communes and part of Saint-Dizier, with 11,798 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Saint-Dizier, Der et Blaise ().

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Related pages
 Arrondissement of Saint-Dizier
 Communes of the Haute-Marne department

References

Other websites

 Site officiel de la ville de Saint-Dizier 
 Office de Tourisme Saint-Dizier, Der & Blaise 

Category:Communes in Haute-Marne
Category:Subprefectures in France