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The Canton of Mutterstadt (German: Kanton Mutterstadt, French: Canton de Mutterstadt) was a former administrative division that was in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was created after France captured and annexed the area from the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the First Coalition. Its administrative center was Mutterstadt.

The canton was part France between 1798 and 1814, initially the French First Republic (1798-1804) and then the First French Empire (1804-1814). It was one of ten cantons in the Arrondissement Speyer (French: Arrondissement de Spire) in the Department of Donnersberg (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre). After the Palatinate was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816, the cantons were initially retained (with some territorial changes) and were kept as part of its administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area of the canton lay in today's Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, specifically in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district as well as in the area of the independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Municipalities and town halls
According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Mutterstadt. They were each administratively assigned to town halls. The columns "community name" and "town hall" use the former spellings of the place names.

History
The cantons were at the same time peace court districts (German Friedensgerichtsbezirke).