The Aube department is located in the southwest side of the Grand Est region.

[5] Within the department regions of natural or traditional countryside can be identified as follows: Aube is divided into 431 communes totalling 310,242 inhabitants (2019).

Between 1950 and 1985 the average annual temperature recorded in the department was 10.1 °C[7] which is equivalent to the Paris basin and the cities of north-eastern France.

Unlike many networks that are provided by other operators, the agglomeration community of the city is the owner of the company.

[17] The first inhabitants of Aube were the Tricasses and Lingones with a substantial human settlement around the year 400 BC.

Saints Potentian and Savinian,[18] Greek priests from Samos, came to preach the gospel from the middle of the 3rd century.

Shortly after Saint Jule and some notables of the city of Tricasses also suffered martyrdom.

Two important monasteries were founded in the department: one at Clairvaux in 1114, created by Bernard of Clairvaux, the other was the Abbey of the Paraclete near Nogent-sur-Seine, by his illustrious rival, Pierre Abélard and of which Héloïse d'Argenteuil was the first abbess.

Bernard of Clairvaux was noted for his eloquence at the Council of Troyes and his preaching of the Second Crusade which had no result and whose outcome was disastrous.

Yet people wanted absolutely the incorporation of Champagne but in 1328 King Philip VI gave the city of Bar-sur-Seine to Philippe de Croy.

The decree of the National Assembly of 15 January 1790 formally established the department of Aube.

Its first president was Augustin-Henri-Marie Picot[19] and his first deputy was Louis Antoine Joseph Robin.

[20] In 1932, Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk visited Aube and signed a friendship treaty with France there on 4 July 1938.

Aube returns three Deputies to the National Assembly, two of whom are from The Republicans (LR), and two Senators: one UMP and one right-wing independent.

This sector is now in crisis due to the department being in an area of real economic change.

The main areas affected by the feminization are trade, transport, textiles, utilities, education, and health.

Distribution of Employment by Industry sector (2015) The utilized agricultural area is 379,720 hectares.