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Ardennes

department in France
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Summary

Ardennes is a department of France[1]. Ardennes draws 3,176 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #26 of 147).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Grand Est[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Head of government: Benoît Huré[5]
  • Capital: Charleville-Mézières[6]
  • Shares border with: Meuse[7], Marne[8], Aisne[9], Hainaut[10], Province of Namur[11], Luxembourg[12]
  • Named after: Ardennes[13]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières[14], arrondissement of Rethel[15], arrondissement of Sedan[16], arrondissement of Vouziers[17], Charleville-Mézières[18], Château-Regnault-Bogny[19]
  • Commons category: Ardennes (department)[20]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[21], UTC+02:00[22]
  • Inception: March 4, 1790[23]
  • Highest point: Bois des Haies[24]
  • Official website: https://cd08.fr/[25]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ardennes (department)[26]
  • Commons gallery: Ardennes (department)[27]
  • Population: 277,003[28], 277,752[29], 273,579[30], 271,845[31], 270,582[32], 269,701[33], 268,859[34], 267,204[35], 265,893[36]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Ardennes[37]
  • Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[38]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[39], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[40], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[41], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[42]
  • Official name: Ardennes[43]
  • List of monuments: Liste des monuments historiques des Ardennes[44]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Ardennes[45]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Ardennes (department)[46]
  • Native label: Ardennes[47]
  • Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Ardennes (department)[48]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Ardennes (department)[49]

Why It Matters

Ardennes has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Ardennes is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . insee.fr. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Populations légales 2021. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Populations de référence 2022. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Populations de référence 2023. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Albgr03 · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières, arrondissement of Rethel, arrondissement of Sedan +3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36975|batch #36975]]: Remove French communes from French depts"
  2. 16w ago · Albgr03 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36652|batch #36652]]: Remove redundant P421, they are available at a higher administrative level"
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