has three times as many municipalities as Sweden, which has a much larger territory covering 449,964 km2 and yet is divided into only 290 municipalities kommuner. Alsace has more than double the total number of municipalities of the Netherlands which, in spite of having a population nine times larger and a land area four times larger than Alsace, is divided into just 390 municipalities gemeenten.

Most of the communes in Alsace, along with those in other