Aube is a French department in the Grand Est region, as with sixty other departments in the country is named after a river, the Aube. The Aube borders the departments of Marne in the north (about 130 km long), Haute-Marne to the east (about 100 km long), Côte-d'Or in the south-east (about 45 km long), Yonne in the south-west (about 175 km long) and Seine-et-Marne in the west (about 45 km long). Aube is divided into 431 communes, their major cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants are Troyes it’s main city and prefecture, Romilly-sur-Seine, La Chapelle-Saint-Luc, Saint-André-les-Vergers and Sainte-Savine. They are mostly located in the centre of the department and four out of those five cities are part of the Agglomeration of Troyes.
There are no less than 23 rivers throughout the department, the four main rivers being the Seine, the Aube (tributary of the Seine), the Armance (tributary of the Armançon) and the Vanne (a tributary of the Yonne). Located in the Community of communes of Forests, lakes, and lands in Champagne, the Orient Forest Regional Natural Park was one of the first natural parks created in France. The department has more than 140,000 hectares of forests!
The climate is moderate without intense cold or excessive heat which represents a climate similar to continental and oceanic. Learn more about the department of Aube on
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