Alsace - FRF1

EU regions: France > ALSACE-CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE-LORRAINE > Alsace

indicator	period	value
unemployment rate	2020	7.3
employment rate	2020	66.6
number of inhabitants	2020	1 908 494
population density	2019	230.6
life long learning participation	2020	12.7
NEET	2020	10.7
old-age dependency ratio	2020	30.8
gender gap in employment rate	2020	88.83

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Alsace (, also US: ; Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: 's Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass [ˈɛlzas] (listen); Latin: Alsatia; French: [alzas] (listen)) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in Eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2017, it had a population of 1,889,589. Alsatian culture is characterized by a blend of Germanic and French influences.

Until 1871, Alsace included the area now known as the Territoire de Belfort, which formed its southernmost part. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed by the French Parliament in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin merged into the new European Collectivity of Alsace but remained part of the region Grand Est.

Alsatian is an Alemannic dialect closely related to Swabian and Swiss German, although since World War II most Alsatians primarily speak French. Internal and international migration since 1945 has also changed the ethnolinguistic composition of Alsace. For more than 300 years, from the Thirty Years' War to World War II, the political status of Alsace was heavily contested between France and various German states in wars and diplomatic conferences. The economic and cultural capital of Alsace, as well as its largest city, is Strasbourg, which sits right on the contemporary German international border.

other: ALSACE-CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE-LORRAINE, Lorraine, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne

neighbours: Franche-Comté, Espace Mittelland, Lorraine, Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Northwestern Switzerland, Karlsruhe Government Region, Freiburg Government Region

subregions: Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin

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