The arrondissement of Strasbourg is an arrondissement of France in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital, and prefecture of the department, is the city of Strasbourg.
History
The arrondissement of Strasbourg was created at the 2015 arrondissements reform by the merger of the former arrondissement of Strasbourg-Ville with part of the arrondissement of Strasbourg-Campagne.
Geography
The arrondissement of Strasbourg is in the west of the Bas-Rhin department. It is bordered to the north by the Haguenau-Wissembourg arrondissement, to the south by the Sélestat-Erstein arrondissement, to the southwest by the Molsheim arrondissement and to the west by the Saverne arrondissement. Germany is to the east of the arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Strasbourg is the smallest of the arrondissements of the department with an area of but is the one with more people living in it with a population of 484,157 inhabitants for a population density of inhabitants/km².
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are 11 cantons in the arrondissement of Strasbourg:
Brumath (6703) (partly) Hœnheim (6706) Illkirch-Graffenstaden (6707) Lingolsheim (6709) Schiltigheim (6715) Strasbourg-1 (6717) Strasbourg-2 (6718) Strasbourg-3 (6719) Strasbourg-4 (6720) Strasbourg-5 (6721) Strasbourg-6 (6722)
Communes
The arrondissement of Strasbourg has 33 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Achenheim (67001) Bischheim (67043) Blaesheim (67049) Breuschwickersheim (67065) Eckbolsheim (67118) Eckwersheim (67119) Entzheim (67124) Eschau (67131) Fegersheim (67137) Geispolsheim (67152) Hangenbieten (67182) Hœnheim (67204) Holtzheim (67212) Illkirch-Graffenstaden (67218) Kolbsheim (67247) Lampertheim (67256) Lingolsheim (67267) Lipsheim (67268) Mittelhausbergen (67296) Mundolsheim (67309) Niederhausbergen (67326) Oberhausbergen (67343) Oberschaeffolsheim (67350) Osthoffen (67363) Ostwald (67365) Plobsheim (67378) Reichstett (67389) Schiltigheim (67447) Souffelweyersheim (67471) Strasbourg (67482) Vendenheim (67506) La Wantzenau (67519) Wolfisheim (67551)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are: