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The Moselle is a department (administrative region) in northeastern France, located near the borders with Germany and Luxembourg. It is historically significant as an area that has changed hands between France and Germany multiple times and remains an important industrial and cultural region in the Grand Est area of France.
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- Instance of
- department of France
- Part of
- Alsace-Moselle
- Named after
- Moselle
- Official name
- Moselle
- Country
- France
- Located in
- France
- Capital
- Metz
- Population
- 1051309
- Area
- 6216
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Head of government
- Philippe Leroy
- Shares border with
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Official website
- www.moselle.pref.gouv.fr
- Image
- Temple de Metz mai 2009.jpg
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- Commons category
- Moselle (department)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Moselle
- inception
- 1790-03-04
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Moselle
- topic's main category
- Category:Moselle (department)
- language used
- Zarphatic
- Commons gallery
- Moselle
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Moselle (department)
- railway traffic side
- left
- annual number of weddings
- 2469
- native label
- Departement Moselle
- located in/on physical feature
- Lorraine
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Encyclopedic overview
Moselle ( French pronunciation: [mɔzɛl] ) is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department. It had a population of 1,051,309 in 2023. Inhabitants of the department are known as Mosellans.
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