CHAMPAGNE



The Champagne makes integral part of the Champagne-Ardennes that is an administrative region situated to the North is France. 

She is constituted by departments:
- of  Ardennes (08)  296 300 h
- of  Aube (10)  289 100 h
- of la Marne (51)  558 300 h
- of la Haute-Marne (52) 204 300 h

County seat: Châlon-on-Marne. 
Main city: Reims. 
The surface is 25 606 km². 
The population is 1 348 000 people. 
Inhabitants are some Champenois.

 TO KNOW

Imminent installation of an Agropole in Reims. 
She will have for object the no-agricultural revalorization of the plant matter. 
Implantation of a bio fuel factory to Nogent.



GEOGRAPHY

The Champagne as geographical region, corresponds for the main thing in the old province. 
Several sectors are to distinguish. 
To the East is a clayey earth sprinkled of ponds. The raising milkman himself is developed there strongly. 
To the west it is the humid Champagne. 

The old verminous Champagne became the chalky Champagne. 
She remained a long time poor and dedicated to the ovine raising. 
She is amended today for cultures of beet and of cereals, either afforested in pines. 

On the forehead of the coast of island-of-France is rooted vineyard champenois. 
Cities built themselves within valleys of the Marne, of the Seine, of the Vesle. It is notably cities of Châlons-on-Marne and Epernays; of Troyes and of Reims.

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