The Canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan is a canton

Cantons of France

The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 342 arrondissements and 101 departments.Apart from their role as organizational units in certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, the chief purpose of the cantons today is to serve as...

 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

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.

Geography

An area of light industry

Light industry

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

, forestry

Forestry

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 and manufacturing

Manufacturing

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 situated immediately northwest 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...

. The altitude varies from 4m (Déville-lès-Rouen

Déville-lès-Rouen

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St.Pierre, dating from the nineteenth century.* The ruins of a Rouen bishop's manor house dating from the thirteenth century.* A sixteenth century stone cross.-Notable people:...

) to 171m (Mont-Saint-Aignan

Mont-Saint-Aignan

-People:*Birthplace of Jacques Anquetil , the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times.*Viviane Asseyi footballer*Jackson Mendy footballer*Matthieu Louis-Jean footballer*Mohamed Sissoko, Juventus F.C footballer, was born here....

) with an average altitude of 108m.

Composition

The Canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan comprises just 2 communes with a total of 31,706 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
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Déville-lès-Rouen

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Mont-Saint-Aignan

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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