Editing Alsace (section)

{{Short description|Region of France}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name                            = Alsace
| native_name                     = {{native name|gsw|Elsàss}} {{native name|de|Elsaß}}
| anthem = {{native phrase|de|"[[Elsässisches Fahnenlied]]"|italics=off}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJr8yennvBY | title=Elsässisches Fahnenlied &#91;Anthem of Alsace&#93;&#91;+English translation&#93; | website=[[YouTube]] | date=14 April 2020 }}</ref><br />({{Langx|en|"Song of the Alsatian Flag"}}) <br /> [[File:Elsässisches Fahnenlied!.ogg|alt=Instrumental version, 2023|Instrumental version, 2023|center]]
| image_skyline                   = {{Photomontage
| photo1a = Pano.cernay.JPG
| photo3a = Absolute cathedrale vue quais 01.JPG
| photo2a = Colmar (32350846618).jpg
| photo3c = Riquewihr Dolder.jpg
| photo3b = Château de Hohenbourg.jpg
| photo4a = Neuf-Brisach, Haut-Rhin, France.jpg
| spacing = 3
| border  = 0
| color   = white
| size    = 300
}}
| image_caption                   = Views of [[Cernay, Haut-Rhin|Cernay]], [[Colmar]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Château de Hohenbourg]], [[Riquewihr]], [[Neuf-Brisach]]
| image_map                       = Carte Alsace 2018.png
| image_flag                      = Flag of Alsace.svg
| image_shield                    = BlasonAlsace.svg
| subdivision_type                = Country
| subdivision_name                = [[France]]
| subdivision_type1               = [[Territorial collectivity]]
| subdivision_name1               = [[European Collectivity of Alsace]]
| seat_type                       = [[Prefectures in France|Prefecture]]
| seat                            = [[Strasbourg]]
| area_total_km2                  = 8280
| area_footnotes                  = <ref>{{cite web|title=La géographie de l'Alsace|url=http://www.region.alsace/region-alsace/la-geographie-de-lalsace|website=region.alsace|access-date=13 January 2016|archive-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212121550/http://www.region.alsace/region-alsace/la-geographie-de-lalsace|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| population_total                = 1919745
| population_density_km2          = auto
| population_footnotes            = <ref name="pop">Combined 2021 population of the departements of [[Bas-Rhin]] and [[Haut-Rhin]]: {{cite web |title=Populations légales des départements en 2021 |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7728787?sommaire=7728826 |publisher=[[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]] |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
| population_as_of                = Jan. 2021
| population_demonym              = Alsatian
| demographics_type1       = GDP
| demographics1_footnotes  = <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tgs00003/default/table?lang=en | title=EU regions by GDP, Eurostat|access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref>
|demographics1_title1     = Total
|demographics1_info1      = €67.748 billion (2022)
| demographics1_title2     = Per capita
|demographics1_info2      = €35,800 (2022)
| parts_type                      = [[Departments of France|Departments]]
| parts_style                     = list
| parts                           = 2
| p1                              = [[Bas-Rhin]] (67)
| p2                              = [[Haut-Rhin]] (68)
| iso_code                        = FR-A
}}
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'''Alsace''' ({{IPAc-en|æ|l|ˈ|s|æ|s}},<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Alsace |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317063739/https://www.lexico.com/definition/alsace |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-03-17 |title=Alsace |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|USalso|æ|l|ˈ|s|eɪ|s|,_|ˈ|æ|l|s|æ|s}};<ref>{{cite American Heritage Dictionary|Alsace|access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite Collins Dictionary|Alsace|access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|fr|alzas|lang|Fr-Paris--Alsace.ogg}})<ref>[[Low Alemannic German]]/[[Alsatian language|Alsatian]]: {{lang|gsw|Elsàss}} [[Help:IPA/Alemannic German|[ˈɛlsɑs]]]; [[German language|German]]: {{lang|de|Elsass}} ([[German spelling reform of 1996|German spelling before 1996]]: {{lang|de|Elsaß}}) [[Help:IPA/Standard German|[ˈɛlzas]]] <sup>[[:File:Elsass.ogg|ⓘ]]</sup>; [[Latin language|Latin]]: {{lang|la|Alsatia}})</ref> is a cultural region and a [[territorial collectivity]] in the [[Grand Est]] administrative region of northeastern [[France]], on the west bank of the upper [[Rhine]], next to [[Germany]] and [[Switzerland]]. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,919,745.<ref name=pop /> Alsatian culture is characterized by a blend of German and French influences.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/alsace-culturally-not-quite-french-not-quite-german |title=Alsace: culturally not quite French, not quite German |last=Leichtfried |first=Laura |work=British Council |date=23 February 2017 |access-date=25 August 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223231848/https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/alsace-culturally-not-quite-french-not-quite-german |archive-date=23 February 2017 }}</ref>

Until 1871, Alsace included the area now known as the [[Territoire de Belfort]], which formed its southernmost part. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative {{lang|fr|[[Regions of France|région]]}} in [[metropolitan France]], consisting of the [[Bas-Rhin]] and [[Haut-Rhin]] [[Departments of France|departments]]. Territorial reform passed by the French Parliament in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with [[Champagne-Ardenne]] and [[Lorraine]] to form [[Grand Est]]. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin merged into the new [[European Collectivity of Alsace]] but remained part of the region Grand Est.

[[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]] is an [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]] dialect closely related to [[Swabian German|Swabian]], although since World War II most [[Alsatians (people)|Alsatians]] primarily speak French. Internal and international migration since 1945 has also changed the ethnolinguistic composition of Alsace. For more than 300 years, from the [[Thirty Years' War]] to [[World War II]], the political status of Alsace was heavily contested between France and various German states in wars and diplomatic conferences. The economic and cultural capital of Alsace, as well as its largest city, is [[Strasbourg]], which sits on the present German international border. The city is the seat of [[European institutions in Strasbourg|several international organizations and bodies]].