Hinsbourg is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Bas-Rhin

Bas-Rhin

Bas-Rhin is a department of France. The name means "Lower Rhine". It is the more populous and densely populated of the two departments of the Alsace region, with 1,079,013 inhabitants in 2006.- History :...

 department in Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

 in north-eastern 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...

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Geography

Hinsbourg is positioned in the north of Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

, some thirty kilometres (eighteen miles) through twisting mostly wooded roads to the north of Saverne

Saverne

Saverne is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It is situated on the Rhine-Marne canal at the foot of a pass over the Vosges Mountains, and 45 km N.W...

, and within the Transfrontier Biosphere Reserve of the North Vosges/Pfälzerwald.

Surrounding communes are Puberg

Puberg

Puberg is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

 to the northeast, Zittersheim

Zittersheim

Zittersheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

 to the east, La Petite-Pierre

La Petite-Pierre

La Petite-Pierre is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

 to the southeast, Struth

Struth

Struth is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

 to the southwest and Frohmuhl

Frohmuhl

Frohmuhl is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.The commune lies within the North Vosges regional natural park.-Geography:...

to the west.