Grand Est
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Grand Est is an administrative region in northeastern France created in 2016 by combining three smaller regions. It matters because it's a significant economic and cultural hub in France, bordering Germany, Luxembourg, and Belgium, and includes important cities like Strasbourg and Reims.
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Grand Est ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃t‿ɛst] ; English: "Greater East") is one of France's landlocked administrative regions, this being in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (pronounced [alzas ʃɑ̃paɲ aʁdɛn lɔʁɛn], ACAL or, less commonly, ALCALIA) as a result of territorial reform which had been passed by the French Parliament in 2014.
The region sits astride three water basins (Seine, Meuse, and Rhine), spanning an area of 57,433 km (22,175 sq mi), the fifth largest in France; it includes two mountain ranges (Vosges and Ardennes). It shares borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Switzerland. As of 2021, it had a population of 5,561,287 inhabitants. The prefecture and largest city is Strasbourg.