The Canton of Elbeuf is a canton situated in the Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

 département and in the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region of northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Geography

An area of farmland

Arable land

In geography and agriculture, arable land is land that can be used for growing crops. It includes all land under temporary crops , temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow...

, forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands...

 and light industry

Light industry

Light industry is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented...

 situated on the left bank of the Seine

Seine

The Seine is a -long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Saint-Seine near Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre . It is navigable by ocean-going vessels...

, 12 miles (19.3 km) south of Rouen

Rouen

Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...

 in the arrondissement of Rouen

Arrondissement of Rouen

The Arrondissement of Rouen is one of 342 arrondissements of France, located in the Seine-Maritime département, in the Haute-Normandie région...

, centred on the town of Elbeuf

Elbeuf

-Population:-Places of interest:* The mairie, also housing the museum.* Two seventeenth century churches.* Some sixteenth century houses.* A fifteenth century stone cross.* The theatre , renovated in the late twentieth century.-Notable people:...

. The altitude varies from 2m (Elbeuf

Elbeuf

-Population:-Places of interest:* The mairie, also housing the museum.* Two seventeenth century churches.* Some sixteenth century houses.* A fifteenth century stone cross.* The theatre , renovated in the late twentieth century.-Notable people:...

) to 138m (La Londe

La Londe

-Places of interest: * A memorial to the Canadian soldiers that liberated the town in August 1944.* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.* A seventeenth century château.* A stone cross from the sixteenth century.* Some Roman ruins....

) with an average altitude of 80m.

Composition

The Canton of Elbeuf comprises 4 communes and a total of 28,040 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
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| Elbeuf

Elbeuf

-Population:-Places of interest:* The mairie, also housing the museum.* Two seventeenth century churches.* Some sixteenth century houses.* A fifteenth century stone cross.* The theatre , renovated in the late twentieth century.-Notable people:...

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| La Londe

La Londe

-Places of interest: * A memorial to the Canadian soldiers that liberated the town in August 1944.* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.* A seventeenth century château.* A stone cross from the sixteenth century.* Some Roman ruins....

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| Orival

Orival, Seine-Maritime

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St.Georges, dating from the fifteenth century.* The ruins of the thirteenth century castle of Roche-Fouet.-External links:* *...

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| Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf

Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St. Aubin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The seventeenth-century château of Mathonville.* The ancient priory of Saint-Gilles.* Several old houses.-External links:* *...

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See also

• Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...
  
  
• Arrondissements of the Seine-Maritime department
• Cantons of the Seine-Maritime department
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department