Grand Est
More than any other region of France, Grand Est has been shaped by continual waves of settlement, invasion and border changes. As the name suggests, this is a large region of eastern France, fronting the entire border with Germany and Luxembourg, and significant portions of the Belgian and Swiss borders, too.Photo: stefano Merli, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Strasbourg and Reims.
Strasbourg
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Strasbourg, in Alsace, is the capital of the Grand-Est region of France and is most widely known for hosting a number of important European institutions.
Reims
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Reims, a city in Champagne-Ardenne, France, is perhaps best known for its world heritage listed cathedral, where generations of French kings were crowned.
Metz
Metz is in the Lorraine region of France that borders Luxembourg and Germany. Metz and the rest of the region offer much to view of historical interest, as well as a well-rounded shopping scene, ranging from the low- to high-end and including a great Saturday farmers' market.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Alsace and Lorraine.
Alsace
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Alsace is a region in the Grand Est region of France that has close historical links with Germany. The local culture is distinct, and the region offers historic cities and castles, and interesting countryside.
Lorraine
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Lorraine is in the Grand Est region of France. The region is home to a rich historical, architectural, and cultural heritage, with prestigious gems and sometimes little-known treasures.
Champagne-Ardenne
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Champagne-Ardenne is in the Grand Est region of France. Most visitors come to Champagne for its history, its vineyards and its cellars, but Champagne holds so many treasures: a rolling countryside, dotted medieval churches, timeless castles and villages along winding waterways, historic fortifications in the forested Ardennes, and vineyards as far as the eye can see between Reims and Epernay.
Turckheim
Turckheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies west of Colmar, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
Grand Est
- Type: State with 5,560,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of France
- Also known as: “ACAL”, “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorrain”, “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”, and “Grand-Est”
- Neighbors: Baden-Württemberg, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Land of the Red Rocks, Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and Wallonia
- Categories: region of France and locality
- Location: France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
48.4845° or 48° 29′ 4″ northLongitude of center
6.113° or 6° 6′ 47″ eastPopulation
5,560,000Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)Inception
January 1st, 2016Abbreviation
“ACAL”OpenStreetMap ID
node 3925295237OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Grand Est” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grand Est”
- Albanian: “Lindja e madhe”
- Amharic: “ታላቅ ምስራቅ”
- Arabic: “ألزاس-شامبان أردان-لورين”
- Arabic: “الشرق العظيم”
- Arabic: “الشرق الكبير”
- Aragonese: “Gran Este”
- Armenian: “Գրանդ Էստ”
- Asturian: “ACAL”
- Asturian: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Asturian: “Gran Este”
- Asturian: “Grand-Est”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrand Est”
- Balinese: “Grand Est”
- Basque: “Ekialde Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі ўсходні рэгіён”
- Belarusian: “Гранд Эст”
- Belarusian: “Гранд-Эст”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Гранд Эст”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Гранд-Эст”
- Belarusian: “Эльзас-Шампань-Ардэны-Латарынгія”
- Bengali: “গ্রঁতেস্ত”
- Breton: “Grand Est”
- Breton: “Reter-Meur”
- Bulgarian: “Гранд Ест”
- Burmese: “ဂရံတဲ့စ်တ်တိုင်း”
- Catalan: “Gran Est”
- Cebuano: “Grand Est”
- Chechen: “ГгӀанд-Эст”
- Chinese: “Grand Est”
- Chinese: “大东部大区”
- Chinese: “大東部”
- Chinese: “大東部大區”
- Chinese: “阿爾薩斯-香檳-阿登-洛林”
- Corsican: “Grand est/Grandu levante”
- Corsican: “Grand est”
- Corsican: “Grandu levante”
- Crimean Tatar: “Grand-Est”
- Croatian: “Grand Est”
- Czech: “Grand Est”
- Czech: “Velký východ”
- Danish: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Danish: “Grand Est”
- Dimli (individual language): “Grand Est”
- Dutch: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Dutch: “Elzas-Champagne-Ardenne-Lotharingen”
- Dutch: “Grand Est”
- Dutch: “Lotharingen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراند ايست”
- Esperanto: “Grand Est”
- Esperanto: “Grand-Eosto”
- Esperanto: “Granda Oriento”
- Estonian: “Grand Est”
- Finnish: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Finnish: “Grand Est”
- French: “ACAL”
- French: “Grand Est”
- French: “Grand-Est”
- French: “région Grand Est”
- French: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine” (historical)
- Galician: “Alsacia-Champaña-Ardenas-Lorena”
- Galician: “Gran Leste”
- German: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- German: “Elsass-Champagne-Ardennen-Lothringen”
- German: “Grand Est”
- German: “Grand-Est”
- Greek: “ACAL”
- Greek: “Αλσατία-Καμπανία-Αρδέννες-Λωρραίνη”
- Greek: “Γκραντ Εστ”
- Hausa: “Grand Est”
- Hebrew: “אלזס-שמפאן-ארדן-לורן”
- Hebrew: “גראן דסט”
- Hebrew: “גראנד אסט”
- Hebrew: “גראנד-אסט”
- Hindi: “ग्रांड एस्ट”
- Hungarian: “Grand Est”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Franciaország”
- Icelandic: “Grand Est”
- Indonesian: “Grand Est”
- Interlingua: “Grand Est”
- Interlingua: “Grande Est”
- Interlingue: “Grand Est”
- Irish: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Irish: “Grand Est”
- Italian: “Alsazia-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorena” (historical)
- Italian: “Gran Este”
- Italian: “Grand Est”
- Italian: “Grande Est”
- Japanese: “グラン・テスト地域圏”
- Japanese: “グラン・テスト地方”
- Javanese: “Grand Est”
- Kazakh: “Гранд-Эст”
- Kirghiz: “Чон Чыгыш”
- Korean: “그랑테스트”
- Korean: “알자스샹파뉴아르덴로렌”
- Kurdish: “Grand Est”
- Ladin: “Grand Est”
- Latin: “Alsatia Campania Arduenna et Lotharingia”
- Latin: “Magnus Oriens”
- Latvian: “Grand Est”
- Latvian: “Grandesta”
- Limburgan: “Grand Est”
- Lithuanian: “Didieji Rytai”
- Lithuanian: “Grand Estas”
- Luxembourgish: “Grand Est”
- Macedonian: “Голем Исток”
- Macedonian: “Гран Ест”
- Malagasy: “Grand Est”
- Malay: “Grand Est”
- Maltese: “Grand Est”
- Marathi: “ग्रांद एस्त”
- Mongolian: “Гранд Эст”
- Northern Frisian: “Grand Est”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Est”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grand Est”
- Norwegian: “Grand Est”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alsàcia-Champanha-Ardena-Lorena”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Èst”
- Oromo: “Grand Est”
- Ossetian: “Гранд-Эст”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰਾਂਡ ਈਸਟ”
- Persian: “آلزاس-شامپاین-آردن-لورن”
- Persian: “گرانت است”
- Persian: “گراند است”
- Picard: “Grand Est”
- Piemontese: “Grand Est”
- Polish: “Grand Est”
- Portuguese: “ACAL”
- Portuguese: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Portuguese: “Alsácia-Champanha-Ardenas-Lorena”
- Portuguese: “Grand Est”
- Portuguese: “Grand-Est”
- Portuguese: “Grande Leste”
- Pushto: “لوی ختیځ”
- Romanian: “Grand Est”
- Russian: “Большой восточный регион”
- Russian: “Гранд Эст”
- Russian: “Гранд-Эст”
- Russian: “Эльзас-Шампань-Арденны-Лотарингия”
- Sardinian: “Grand Est”
- Scots: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Scots: “Grand Est”
- Serbian: “Алзас-Шампања-Ардени-Лорен”
- Serbian: “Гран ест”
- Serbian: “Гранд Ест”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grand Est”
- Slovak: “Alsasko-Champagne-Ardenne-Lotrinsko”
- Slovak: “Grand Est”
- Slovenian: “Grand Est”
- Somali: “Grand Est”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرانت است”
- Spanish: “Alsacia-Lorena-Champaña-Ardenas”
- Spanish: “Gran Este”
- Swahili: “Grand Est”
- Swedish: “Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine”
- Swedish: “Grand Est”
- Swiss German: “Elsass-Champagne-Ardenne-Lothringe”
- Swiss German: “Grossa Oschta”
- Tajik: “Гранд-Эст”
- Tatar: “Граңд-Эст”
- Thai: “กร็อง อีส”
- Thai: “แคว้นกร็องแต็สต์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Grand Est”
- Turkish: “Grand Est”
- Ukrainian: “Гранд Ест”
- Ukrainian: “Гранд-Ест”
- Urdu: “گرایت است”
- Uzbek: “Katta Sharq”
- Venetian: “Grand Est”
- Venetian: “Grando Est”
- Vietnamese: “Grand Est”
- Vlaams: “Grand Est”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grand Est”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Mawr”
- Welsh: “Grand Est”
- Western Frisian: “Grutte Easten”
- Wu Chinese: “大东部大区”
- Yue Chinese: “大東部”
- Zeeuws: “Grand Est”
- “FR-GES”
- “Grand Est”
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