Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller

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

History
The arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller was created in 2015 with the arrondissements reform when the arrondissements of Thann and of Guebwiller were combined to form the new arrondissement.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 Thann-Guebwiller is in the western part of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the north and northeast by the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement, to the east by the Mulhouse arrondissement, to the south by the Altkirch arrondissement, to the southwest by the Territoire de Belfort and to the west by the Vosges department.

The arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller is the second largest of the arrondissements of the department, after the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement, with an area of . It has a population of 140,214 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 5 cantons in the arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller:

 Cernay (6803)
 Ensisheim (6806) (partly)
 Guebwiller (6807)
 Masevaux (6809) (partly)
 Wintzenheim (6816) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller has 81 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Aspach-le-Bas (68011)
 Aspach-Michelbach (68012)
 Bergholtz (68029)
 Bergholtzzell (68030)
 Biltzheim (68037)
 Bitschwiller-lès-Thann (68040)
 Bourbach-le-Bas (68045)
 Bourbach-le-Haut (68046)
 Buhl (68058)
 Burnhaupt-le-Bas (68059)
 Burnhaupt-le-Haut (68060)
 Cernay (68063)
 Dolleren (68073)
 Ensisheim (68082)
 Fellering (68089)
 Geishouse (68102)
 Goldbach-Altenbach (68106)
 Gueberschwihr (68111)
 Guebwiller (68112)
 Guewenheim (68115)
 Gundolsheim (68116)
 Hartmannswiller (68122)
 Hattstatt (68123)
 Husseren-Wesserling (68151)
 Issenheim (68156)
 Jungholtz (68159)
 Kirchberg (68167)
 Kruth (68171)
 Lautenbach (68177)
 Lautenbachzell (68178)
 Lauw (68179)
 Le Haut-Soultzbach (68219)
 Leimbach (68180)
 Linthal (68188)
 Malmerspach (68199)
 Masevaux-Niederbruck (68201)
 Merxheim (68203)
 Meyenheim (68205)
 Mitzach (68211)
 Mollau (68213)
 Moosch (68217)
 Munwiller (68228)
 Murbach (68229)
 Niederentzen (68234)
 Niederhergheim (68235)
 Oberbruck (68239)
 Oberentzen (68241)
 Oberhergheim (68242)
 Oderen (68247)
 Orschwihr (68250)
 Osenbach (68251)
 Pfaffenheim (68255)
 Raedersheim (68260)
 Rammersmatt (68261)
 Ranspach (68262)
 Réguisheim (68266)
 Rimbach-près-Guebwiller (68274)
 Rimbach-près-Masevaux (68275)
 Rimbachzell (68276)
 Roderen (68279)
 Rouffach (68287)
 Saint-Amarin (68292)
 Schweighouse-Thann (68302)
 Sentheim (68304)
 Sewen (68307)
 Sickert (68308)
 Soppe-le-Bas (68313)
 Soultz-Haut-Rhin (68315)
 Soultzmatt (68318)
 Steinbach (68322)
 Storckensohn (68328)
 Thann (68334)
 Uffholtz (68342)
 Urbès (68344)
 Vieux-Thann (68348)
 Wattwiller (68359)
 Wegscheid (68361)
 Westhalten (68364)
 Wildenstein (68370)
 Willer-sur-Thur (68372)
 Wuenheim (68381)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 68063  Cernay  11,723  Cernay  Thann-Cernay 68112  Guebwiller  11,297  Guebwiller  Région de Guebwiller 68334  Thann  7,915  Cernay  Thann-Cernay 68082  Ensisheim  7,369  Ensisheim  Centre Haut-Rhin 68315  Soultz-Haut-Rhin  7,190  Guebwiller  Région de Guebwiller 68287  Rouffach  4,517  Wintzenheim  Pays de Rouffach, Vignobles et Châteaux 68201  Masevaux-Niederbruck  3,796  Masevaux  Vallée de la Dollar et du Soultzbach 68156  Issenheim  3,438  Guebwiller  Région de Guebwiller 68058  Buhl  3,277  Guebwiller  Région de Guebwiller 68348  Vieux-Thann  2,938  Cernay  Thann-Cernay
Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Thann-Guebwiller