Chemistry - Territoire de Belfort

Territoire-de-Belfort
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Number	90
Region	Franche-Comté
Prefecture	Belfort
Subprefecture	None
Population - Total (1999) - Density	Ranked 95th 137,408 226 /km²
Area	609 km²
Arrondissements	1
Cantons	15
Communes	99
President of the general council	Christian Proust (MDC)
Location

The Territoire de Belfort is a département in the Franche-Comté région of eastern France.

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Administration

Its departmental code is 90, and its préfecture (capital) is Belfort.

History

Created in 1922, it is made up of that part of the former province of Alsace which was retained by France between 1871-1919. The territory was spared German annexation on the ground of its heroic resistance in 1871, as well as due to the fact that people there were French speaking unlike in the rest of Alsace.

Geography

The département has an area of only 609 km² (235 sq. miles), being the fifth smallest of France (after Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne).