Mulhouse is the chief city of an arrondissement of the Haut-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture.

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In 58 BC a battle took place west of Mulhouse and opposed the Roman army of Julius Caesar by a coalition of Germans led by

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Two rivers run through Mulhouse, the Doller and the Ill, both tributaries of the Rhine. Mulhouse is approximately 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Strasbourg and Zürich; it is 350 km (217 mi) from Milan and about 340 km (211 mi) from Frankfurt. It lies close enough to

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• Hôtel de Ville (sixteenth century). The town hall was built in 1553 in the Rhenish Renaissance style. Montaignedescribed it as a "palais magnifique et tout doré" ("splendid golden palace")

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Air
Mulhouse is served by EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, located 25 km (16 mi) south of the town.
Rail
Gare de Mulhouseis well connected with the rest of France by train,

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Mulhouse was the birthplace of:
• Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640), lineographer and mathematician
• Serge Blenner [de] (born 1955), composer and synthesist

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As early as the mid-19th century, Mulhouse was known as "the industrial capital of Alsace", the "city with a hundred chimneys" (cité aux cent cheminées) and "the French Manchester".
• Automobile industry (Peugeot's Mulhouse factoryis

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