Sundgau

Sundgau
Land Area 663 km2
Population 61 841 inhabitants (1999)
Capital Altkirch
Cantons 4
Communes 112

Sundgau (French pronunciation: [suŋɡo][1][2] or [syŋɡo];[3][4] German: [ˈzʊntɡaʊ]) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from Alemannic German Sunt-gowe ("South shire"), denoting an Alemannic county in the Old High German period. The principal city and historical capital is Altkirch.

The considerably smaller French pays of Sundgau, implemented by the 1999 Loi Voynet, roughly corresponds to the arrondissement of Altkirch, comprising four cantons and 112 communes in the south of the larger Sundgau region.

  1. ^ La 15e édition des Carpailles dans le Sundgau, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-09-08
  2. ^ Sundgau : des incendies criminels visent les antennes-relais, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-09-08
  3. ^ Le Sundgau, terre solaire?, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-09-08
  4. ^ Dans le Sundgau, la carpe frite se déguste... en glace, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-09-08

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