Arrondissement of Altkirch

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

## History
When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the *arrondissement* of Altkirch was part of that original department.

## Geography
The *arrondissement* of Altkirch is in the southwest of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the Thann-Guebwiller *arrondissement*, to the north and west by the Mulhouse *arrondissement*, to the south by Switzerland and to the west by the Territoire de Belfort department.

The *arrondissement* of Altkirch is the smallest of the *arrondissements* of the department, with an area of , and it is also with fewest people living in it with a population of 69,645 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 only 2 cantons in the arrondissement of Altkirch:

# Altkirch (6801)
# Masevaux (6809) (partly)

### Communes
The *arrondissement* of Altkirch has 108 *communes*; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

# Altenach (68002)
# Altkirch (68004)
# Aspach (68010)
# Ballersdorf (68017)
# Balschwiller (68018)
# Bellemagny (68024)
# Bendorf (68025)
# Berentzwiller (68027)
# Bernwiller (68006)
# Bettendorf (68033)
# Bettlach (68034)
# Biederthal (68035)
# Bisel (68039)
# Bouxwiller (68049)
# Bréchaumont (68050)
# Bretten (68052)
# Buethwiller (68057)
# Carspach (68062)
# Chavannes-sur-l'Étang (68065)
# Courtavon (68067)
# Dannemarie (68068)
# Diefmatten (68071)
# Durlinsdorf (68074)
# Durmenach (68075)
# Eglingen (68077)
# Elbach (68079)
# Emlingen (68080)
# Eteimbes (68085)
# Falkwiller (68086)
# Feldbach (68087)
# Ferrette (68090)
# Fislis (68092)
# Franken (68096)
# Friesen (68098)
# Frœningen (68099)
# Fulleren (68100)
# Gildwiller (68105)
# Gommersdorf (68107)
# Guevenatten (68114)
# Hagenbach (68119)
# Hausgauen (68124)
# Hecken (68125)
# Heidwiller (68127)
# Heimersdorf (68128)
# Heiwiller (68131)
# Hindlingen (68137)
# Hirsingue (68138)
# Hirtzbach (68139)
# Hochstatt (68141)
# Hundsbach (68148)
# Illfurth (68152)
# Illtal (68240)
# Jettingen (68158)
# Kiffis (68165)
# Kœstlach (68169)
# Largitzen (68176)
# Levoncourt (68181)
# Liebsdorf (68184)
# Ligsdorf (68186)
# Linsdorf (68187)
# Lucelle (68190)
# Luemschwiller (68191)
# Lutter (68194)
# Magny (68196)
# Manspach (68200)
# Mertzen (68202)
# Mœrnach (68212)
# Montreux-Jeune (68214)
# Montreux-Vieux (68215)
# Mooslargue (68216)
# Muespach (68221)
# Muespach-le-Haut (68222)
# Oberlarg (68243)
# Obermorschwiller (68245)
# Oltingue (68248)
# Pfetterhouse (68257)
# Raedersdorf (68259)
# Retzwiller (68268)
# Riespach (68273)
# Romagny (68282)
# Roppentzwiller (68284)
# Ruederbach (68288)
# Saint-Bernard (68081)
# Saint-Cosme (68293)
# Saint-Ulrich (68299)
# Schwoben (68303)
# Seppois-le-Bas (68305)
# Seppois-le-Haut (68306)
# Sondersdorf (68312)
# Spechbach (68320)
# Steinsoultz (68325)
# Sternenberg (68326)
# Strueth (68330)
# Tagolsheim (68332)
# Tagsdorf (68333)
# Traubach-le-Bas (68336)
# Traubach-le-Haut (68337)
# Ueberstrass (68340)
# Valdieu-Lutran (68192)
# Vieux-Ferrette (68347)
# Waldighofen (68355)
# Walheim (68356)
# Werentzhouse (68363)
# Willer (68371)
# Winkel (68373)
# Wittersdorf (68377)
# Wolfersdorf (68378)
# Wolschwiller (68380) 

The *communes* with more inhabitants in the *arrondissement* are:

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

## References