Apach
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| Commune of Apach | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 06° 22' 32" E |
| Latitude | 49° 27' 34" N |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Lorraine |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Thionville-Est |
| Canton | Sierck-les-Bains |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 145 m–365 m (avg. 115 m) |
| Land area¹ | 3,35 km² km² |
| Population² (1999) |
813 |
| - Density (1999) | 242/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57026/ 57480 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
Apach is a French municipality in the canton of Sierck-les-Bains in Lorraine.
Apach is 2 km away from Sierck-lès-Bains, 25 km from Thionville and 50 km from Metz. The is on the French border to Germany and Luxembourg, the municipalities just across the border bein Perl in Germany and Schengen in Luxembourg.
A natural reserve for orchids is located along the limestone hillsides, of which there are a lot in this town.
- This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia