What is Arrondissement of Mulhouse?
{{Infobox French subdivision | type = arr | name=Mulhouse | INSEE=684 | nbcomm=79 | prefecture=n | seat=[[Mulhouse]] | population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} | population_as_of = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} | population_footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes2}} | area=707.1 | image_map=Locator map of Arrondissement Mulhouse 2019.png | map_caption=Location within the region Grand Est }} The '''arrondissement of Mulhouse''' is an [[Arrondissements of France|arrondissement]] of France in the [[Haut-Rhin]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Grand Est]] [[Regions of France|region]]. Its [[Capital city|capital]] is the city of [[Mulhouse]]. ==History== Mulhouse is an ''arrondissement'' of the Haut-Rhin department since 1857.<ref name=splaf>{{cite web |url=http://splaf.free.fr/68his.html |title=Historique du Haut-Rhin |work=Le SPLAF |language=French |accessdate=15 December 2017 |date= }}</ref> At the 2015 ''arrondissements'' changes, the ''arrondissement'' of Mulhouse was expanded with several ''communes'' from the new ''arrondissement'' of Thann-Guebwiller.<ref>[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1720/jo/texte Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)]</ref> ==Geography== The ''arrondissement'' of Mulhouse is in the southeast of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the [[Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé|Colmar-Ribeauvillé]] ''arrondissement'', to the east by [[Germany]], to the south by the [[Arrondissement of Altkirch|Altkirch]] ''arrondissement'' and to the west and north by the [[Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller|Thann-Guebwiller]] ''arrondissement''. The ''arrondissement'' of Mulhouse is the second smallest of the ''arrondissements'' of the department, after the [[Arrondissement of Altkirch|Altkirch]] ''arrondissement'', with an area of {{Convert|707.1|km2|sqmi|abbr=off}}. It