Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse (, literally ''Le Châtelet on
Meuse
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'') is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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** Communes of ...
in the
Haute-Marne
Haute-Marne (; English: Upper Marne) is a department in the Grand Est region of Northeastern France. Named after the river Marne, its prefecture is Chaumont. In 2019, it had a population of 172,512.department
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in north-eastern
France
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.
It contains the source of the River
Meuse
The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a t ...
, which is very close the commune's village of Pouilly-en-Bassigny.
References
See also
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Communes of the Haute-Marne department
The following is a list of the 426 communes in the French department of Haute-Marne.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Chateletsurmeuse
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