When the Meurthe-et-Moselle department was created in 1871, the arrondissement of Nancy was part of that original department.[2]
Geography
The arrondissement of Nancy is in the middle of the southern part of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department. It is bordered to the north by the Moselle department, to the east by the arrondissement of Lunéville, to the south by the Vosges department, to the west by the arrondissement of Toul and to the northwest by the arrondissement of Briey.
The arrondissement of Nancy has an area of 1,509.4 square kilometres (582.8 square miles) and a population of 417,430 inhabitants.[3]
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are only 16 cantons in the arrondissement of Nancy; they are: