Meuse (department)
Meuse | |
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Prefecture building of the Meuse department, in Bar-le-Duc | |
Location of Meuse in France | |
| Coordinates: 49°00′N 05°20′E / 49.000°N 5.333°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Prefecture | Bar-le-Duc |
| Subprefectures | Commercy Verdun |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Jérôme Dumont |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,211 km2 (2,398 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 180,745 |
| • Rank | 91st |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Meusiens, Meusiennes |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | FR-55 |
| Department number | 55 |
| Largest city | Verdun |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Constituency | 2 |
| Cantons | 17 |
| Intercommunality | 15 |
| Communes | 499 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
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Meuse (French pronunciation: [møz] ⓘ) is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse. Meuse is part of the current region of Grand Est and is landlocked and borders by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Belgium to the north. Parts of Meuse belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. It had a population of 184,083 in 2019. Front lines in trench warfare during World War I ran varying courses through the department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun.