About 400 km from Paris, north east of France on the borders of Germany and Switzerland, Alsace is the smallest of all the French regions. It is divided into 2 administrative departments, the Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine) with its capital Strasbourg and the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine)
the capital of which is Colmar.

Covering an area of 8,280 km², Alsace spreads out between the shores of the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains.