Grand Est
| Grand Est | |
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| Region of France | |
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| Country |
 France
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| Prefecture | Strasbourg |
| Departments | |
| Government | |
| • President | Philippe Richert (The Republicans) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 57,433 km2 (22,175 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 5,554,645 |
| • Density | 97/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| GDP (2013) | Ranked |
| Total | €150.3 billion (US$207.0 bn) |
| Per capita | €27,085 (US$37,312) |
| Website | http://www.grandest.fr |
Grand Est (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃.t‿ɛst]; English: Great East, German: Großer Osten — both in the Alsatian and the Lorraine Franconian dialect —), previously Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (ACAL or less commonly, ALCA), is a French administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions—Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine—on 1 January 2016, as a result of territorial reform which was passed by the French legislature in 2014. Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine was a provisional name, created by hyphenating the merged regions in alphabetical order; its regional council had to approve a new name for the region by 1 July 2016. France's Conseil d'État approved Grand Est as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, effective 30 September 2016. The administrative capital and largest city is Strasbourg.
The provisional name of the region was Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, which is formed by combining the names of the three present regions—Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine—in alphabetical order with hyphens. The formula for the provisional name of the region was established by the territorial reform law and applied to all but one of the provisional names for new regions. The ACAL regional council, which was elected in December 2015, was given the task of choosing a name for the region and submitting it to the Conseil d'État—France's highest authority for administrative law—by 1 July 2016 for approval. The provisional name of the region was retired on 30 September 2016, when the new name of the region, Grand Est, took effect.
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