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):
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)
Brechaumont (68050)
Bretten (68052)
Buethwiller (68057)
Carspach (68062)
Chavannes-sur-l'Etang (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)
Froeningen (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)
Koestlach (68169)
Largitzen (68176)
Levoncourt (68181)
Liebsdorf (68184)
Ligsdorf (68186)
Linsdorf (68187)
Lucelle (68190)
Luemschwiller (68191)
Lutter (68194)
Magny (68196)
Manspach (68200)
Mertzen (68202)
Moernach (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
Altkirch