Arrondissement of Verdun
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Meuse
Cantons	15
Communes	253
Sous-préfecture	Verdun
Statistics
Land area¹	2,829 km²
Population
- 1999	83,953
- Density	30/km²
Location
Location of Verdun in Lorraine
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² (0. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Lorraine (Lothringen is one of the 26 régions of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance Metz and Nancy In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Meuse (møːz is a department in northeast France, named after the Meuse River. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Verdun (medieval Wirten official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city and commune 386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open

The arrondissement of Verdun is an arrondissement of France, located in the Meuse département, in the Lorraine région. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. Meuse (møːz is a department in northeast France, named after the Meuse River. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Lorraine (Lothringen is one of the 26 régions of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance Metz and Nancy France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, It has 15 cantons and 253 communes. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic.

Composition

Cantons

The cantons of the arrondissement of Verdun are:

1. Charny-sur-Meuse
2. Clermont-en-Argonne
3. Damvillers
4. Dun-sur-Meuse
5. Étain
6. Fresnes-en-Woëvre
7. Montfaucon-d'Argonne
8. Montmédy
9. Souilly
10. Spincourt
11. Stenay
12. Varennes-en-Argonne
13. Verdun-Centre
14. Verdun-Est
15. Verdun-Ouest

Communes

The communes of the arrondissement of Verdun, and their INSEE codes, are:

External links

• Verdun on French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies site (INSEE, in French)