It was divided in six districts: Bourbonne, Bourmont, Chaumont, Joinville, Langres and Saint-Dizier.
In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the six districts were changed into three arrondissements: Chaumont, Langres and Wassy.[3]
After the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), the department was occupied by the Austrianarmy from June 1815 to November 1818.
On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Wassy was eliminated but in 1940 Wassy was made again an arrondissement but the subprefecture was moved to Saint-Dizier.[3]
Geography
The Haute-Marne department is in the Grand Est region. It is bordered by 6 departments in two regions:
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Saint-Dizier is 1,450.3 mm (57.1 in). The month with the most precipitation on average is November with 185.4 mm (7.3 in) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is July with an average of 68.6 mm (2.7 in).
The average temperature for the year in Saint-Dizier is 11.2 °C (52.2 °F). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 19.8 °C (67.6 °F). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 3.2 °C (37.8 °F)
The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Haute-Marne department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:[8]
The inhabitants of the Haute-Marne department are known, in French, as Haut-Marnais (women: Haut-Marnaises),[9]
Haute-Marne had a population, in 2014, of 180,673,[2] for a population density of 29.1 inhabitants/km2. The arrondissement of Saint-Dizier, with 71,371 inhabitants, is the arrondissement with more inhabitants.[7]
Evolution of the population in Haute-Marne
The communes with more inhabitants in the Haute-Marne department are:[10]
↑"Département de la Haute-Marne (52)". Géographie administrative et d'étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 9 July 2017.