Arrondissement of Mulhouse

The arrondissement of Mulhouse is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Mulhouse.

History
Mulhouse is an arrondissement of the Haut-Rhin department since 1857.

At the 2015 arrondissements changes, the arrondissement of Mulhouse was expanded with several communes from the new arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller.Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)

Geography
The arrondissement of Mulhouse is in the southeast of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement, to the east by Germany, to the south by the Altkirch arrondissement and to the west and north by the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement.

The arrondissement of Mulhouse is the second smallest of the arrondissements of the department, after the Altkirch arrondissement, with an area of . It has a population of 350,032 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There are 8 cantons in the arrondissement of Mulhouse:

 Brunstatt (6802)
 Kingersheim (6808)
 Mulhouse-1 (6810)
 Mulhouse-2 (6811)
 Mulhouse-3 (6812)
 Rixheim (6813)
 Saint-Louis (6814)
 Wittenheim (6817)

Communes
The arrondissement of Mulhouse has 79 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Attenschwiller (68013)
 Baldersheim (68015)
 Bantzenheim (68020)
 Bartenheim (68021)
 Battenheim (68022)
 Berrwiller (68032)
 Blotzheim (68042)
 Bollwiller (68043)
 Brinckheim (68054)
 Bruebach (68055)
 Brunstatt-Didenheim (68056)
 Buschwiller (68061)
 Chalampé (68064)
 Dietwiller (68072)
 Eschentzwiller (68084)
 Feldkirch (68088)
 Flaxlanden (68093)
 Folgensbourg (68094)
 Galfingue (68101)
 Geispitzen (68103)
 Habsheim (68118)
 Hagenthal-le-Bas (68120)
 Hagenthal-le-Haut (68121)
 Hégenheim (68126)
 Heimsbrunn (68129)
 Helfrantzkirch (68132)
 Hésingue (68135)
 Hombourg (68144)
 Huningue (68149)
 Illzach (68154)
 Kappelen (68160)
 Kembs (68163)
 Kingersheim (68166)
 Knœringue (68168)
 Kœtzingue (68170)
 Landser (68174)
 Leymen (68182)
 Liebenswiller (68183)
 Lutterbach (68195)
 Magstatt-le-Bas (68197)
 Magstatt-le-Haut (68198)
 Michelbach-le-Bas (68207)
 Michelbach-le-Haut (68208)
 Morschwiller-le-Bas (68218)
 Mulhouse (68224)
 Neuwiller (68232)
 Niffer (68238)
 Ottmarsheim (68253)
 Petit-Landau (68254)
 Pfastatt (68256)
 Pulversheim (68258)
 Ranspach-le-Bas (68263)
 Ranspach-le-Haut (68264)
 Rantzwiller (68265)
 Reiningue (68267)
 Richwiller (68270)
 Riedisheim (68271)
 Rixheim (68278)
 Rosenau (68286)
 Ruelisheim (68289)
 Saint-Louis (68297)
 Sausheim (68300)
 Schlierbach (68301)
 Sierentz (68309)
 Staffelfelden (68321)
 Steinbrunn-le-Bas (68323)
 Steinbrunn-le-Haut (68324)
 Stetten (68327)
 Uffheim (68341)
 Ungersheim (68343)
 Village-Neuf (68349)
 Wahlbach (68353)
 Waltenheim (68357)
 Wentzwiller (68362)
 Wittelsheim (68375)
 Wittenheim (68376)
 Zaessingue (68382)
 Zillisheim (68384)
 Zimmersheim (68386)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 68224  Mulhouse  111,167  Mulhouse-1, Mulhouse-2, Mulhouse-3  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68297  Saint-Louis  20,228  Saint-Louis  CA Saint-Louis 68376  Wittenheim  14,713  Wittenheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68154  Illzach  14,448  Mulhouse-3  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68278  Rixheim  13,773  Rixheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68166  Kingersheim  12,918  Kingersheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68271  Riedisheim  12,102  Rixheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68375  Wittelsheim  10,341  Wittenheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68256  Pfastatt  9,427  Kingersheim  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération 68056  Brunstatt-Didenheim  7,899  Brunstatt  Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Mulhouse