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Ardennes (French: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes. Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières . The department has 270,582 inhabitants. [ 4 ]
The Ardennes (French: Ardenne ⓘ; Dutch: Ardennen [ɑrˈdɛnə(n)] ⓘ; German: Ardennen; Walloon: Årdene; Luxembourgish: Ardennen [ɑʁˈdænən]), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France.
The concept of a natural park in the Ardennes region originated in the 1960s. Just two months after the decree establishing regional natural parks was published in March 1967, Christophe Ryelandt, in the Ardennes literary and artistic journal La Grive, proposed the creation of a "natural park of the Ardennes forest", with a particular focus on the northern part of the department and extending ...
The administrative region was formed in 1956, consisting of the four departments Aube, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, and Marne. On 1 January 2016, it merged with the neighboring regions of Alsace and Lorraine to form the new region Grand Est , thereby ceasing to exist as an independent entity .
The following is a list of the 19 cantons of the Ardennes department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Attigny Bogny-sur-Meuse
It is located in the Ardennes department, in the Grand Est region, northern France. It was created as Communauté d'agglomération de Charleville-Mézières-Sedan in January 2014 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Ardenne with 3 former communautés de communes and 12 other communes. Its seat is in Charleville ...
The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Ardenne Métropole; Communauté de communes Ardenne rives de Meuse; Communauté de communes Ardennes Thiérache; Communauté de communes de l'Argonne Ardennaise
The 4 arrondissements of the Ardennes department are: [1] Arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières , ( prefecture of the Ardennes department: Charleville-Mézières ) with 157 communes . The population of the arrondissement was 153,985 in 2021.