The Lorraine is an administrative region of France, formed of departments :

- of  Meurthe et Moselle (54)    711 800 h
- of  Meuse (55)     196 300 h
- of  Moselle (57)  1 011 300 h
- of  Vosges (88)     386 300 h

County seat: Metz. 
The Prefecture of Region is Metz. 
The surface is 23 547 km². 
The population is 2 305 700 inhabitants.

TO KNOW

Number of foreign enterprises became implanted in Lorraine. 
They come from Germany, Asia and Britain. 
They represent 80% of the foreign investments. 
The German Nolte installed a factory of particle panels to Bitche in Moselle. 
The American Kimberly Clark manufactures handkerchiefs and napkins to Villiers-Saint-Etienne, in border of the Moselle, meadows of Toul. 
Allied-signal is to Longwy with an unit of fibers polyester production for seat belts and air. The English group ICI is in Verdun, in the Meuse with a chemical unit. 
The Korean Daewo is to Villers-la-Montagne.

An unit of manufacture of ovens microwaves and televisions is situated to Forbach. The Finnish Raflatac is to Pompey in the complex adhesive. Golbey in the north suburb of Epinal has a factory of paper newspaper. The Japanese Minolta created a factory of components for photocopiers, to Eloyes in the Vosges. One also finds the Norwegian NSI.

GEOGRAPHY

The Lorraine is above all a region of chalky trays of average altitude. They alternate with the clayey plains. To the East, small hills expositions are sheltered well. They carry the grapevine on small hills of the meuse and the fruit cultures of mirabelles. 

Big spaces are dedicated abundantly to raising. It is the dominant landscapes. 
They contrast with a zone very urbanized active of the border to the central part of Nancy. 

The Lorraine is a region of crossing; of the Rhineland toward the valley of the Rhone of the North to the South, and of the middle Germany or Alsace toward Paris of the East in West. 
This function of passage underlined by the iron-shod network and put it in room of motorways networks, has been completed henceforth by the completion of the pipeline of the Moselle accessible to the heavy traffic. 

It is a region of the East of France. She spreads on pouring it West of the Vosges. 
It is a vast tray formed of ponds and forests. 
In the oriental part of the Parisian basin, one finds coasts of Moselle and the Meuse and numerous depressions as the Bassigny, the Vermois, the Woêvre or the Xaintois. 

The Lorraine agriculture has for specificity a grouped habitat, an exploitation of small size and a knowledge to make tradition. Incited by the urban market neighborhood, cereals as wheat moved back before the bovine raising. 
The exploitation of the forest is important. She represents a third of the earth. The heavy industry had for basis iron and the coal. But as extraction branches, metallurgy knows a considerable decline. 

To the East and the Northeast of Nancy, one finds mines of salt. 
It is a place of implantation of the chemical industry. 
The textile industry and particularly cotton is located in the Of the Vosges part. 
The Lorraine gives her name to a regional natural park of a surface of about 180 000 hectares.