Gorze is a commune in the arrondissement of Metz-Campagne, located in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine région of France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Metz-Campagne is an arrondissement of France located in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine Moselle is a ''département'' in the east of France named after the Moselle 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, This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
It was the home of the once-famous Gorze Abbey. Gorze Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Gorze in the present Arrondissement of Metz-Campagne, near Metz in Lorraine.