Nouvelle-Aquitaine

**Nouvelle-Aquitaine** () is one of the administrative regions of France. Its capital is Bordeaux. By land area, it is the largest region of France.

It is in the southwest of France formed in 2014 by three old regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. _Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes_ was the temporary name for the region.

## Geography

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is the largest region of France with an area of . It is in southwestern France and borders to the northwest with the Pays de la Loire region, to the north with the Centre-Val de Loire region, to the east with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, to the southwest with the Occitanie region and to the south with Spain.

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine has about  of coast along the Atlantic Ocean.

The distances from Bordeaux, the capital of the region, to other cities are:

- Paris, the national capital,
- Toulouse,
- Marseille,
- Lyon,
- Montpellier,
- Nice,

### Rivers

The only main drainage basin in the region is the Atlantic basin; some of the rivers in region, from south to north, are:
- Adour -
- Garonne -
- Dordogne - ; it joins the Garonne river to form the Gironde estuary
- Charente -
- Sèvre Niortaise -

### Mountains

The territory of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed mostly by large plains and low plateaus ( high). In the northern part of the region, the highest point is Mont Bessou with an elevation of , in the Massif Central. In the southern part of the region, there are higher mountains in the Pyrenees.

The Pic Palas (), at , is the highest mountain of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is in the Pyrenees mountain range of southern Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The highest point of the different departments in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region are:
|Department|Mountain|Elevation|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Charente|_Rocher aux Oiseaux_||
|Charente-Maritime|_Bois de Chantemerlière_||
|Corrèze|Mont Bessou||
|Creuse|_Forêt de Châteauvert_||
|Dordogne|_Forêt de Vieillecour_||
|Gironde|_Colline de Samazeuil_||
|Landes|_Colline de Lauret_||
|Lot-et-Garonne|_Bois Redon_||
|Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pic Palas||
|Deux-Sèvres|_Terrier de Saint-Martin-du-Fouilloux_||
|Vienne|_Les Frémigis_||
|Haute-Vienne|_Puy de Crozat_||

## Departments

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed by 12 departments:

|ISO 3166-2|Shield|Department|Prefecture|Arr.|Cant.|Comm.|Population <small>(2014)</small>|Width=60px|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Density <small>(Inh./km²)</small>||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|FR-16|align="center"||align="left"|Charente|align="left"|Angoulême|3|19|383|353,853|5,956.0||
|align="center"|FR-17|align="center"||align="left"|Charente-Maritime|align="left"|La Rochelle|5|27|469|637,089|6,863.8||
|align="center"|FR-19|align="center"||align="left"|Corrèze|align="left"|Tulle|3|19|283|241,340|5,856.8||
|align="center"|FR-23|align="center"||align="left"|Creuse|align="left"|Guéret|2|15|258|120,581|5565.4||
|align="center"|FR-24|align="center"||align="left"|Dordogne|align="left"|Périgueux|4|25|520|416,350|9,060.0||
|align="center"|FR-33|align="center"||align="left"|Gironde|align="left"|Bordeaux|6|33|538|1,526,016|9,975.6||
|align="center"|FR-40|align="center"||align="left"|Landes|align="left"|Mont-de-Marsan|2|15|330|400,477|9,242.6||
|align="center"|FR-47|align="center"||align="left"|Lot-et-Garonne|align="left"|Agen|4|21|319|333,234|5,360.9||
|align="center"|FR-64|align="center"||align="left"|Pyrénées-Atlantiques|align="left"|Pau|3|27|546|667,249|7,644.8||
|align="center"|FR-79|align="center"||align="left"|Deux-Sèvres|align="left"|Niort|3|17|293|373,553|5,999.4||
|align="center"|FR-86|align="center"||align="left"|Vienne|align="left"|Poitiers|3|19|274|433,203|6,990.4||
|align="center"|FR-87|align="center"||align="left"|Haute-Vienne|align="left"|Limoges|3|21|200|376,199|5,520.1||
|align="center" colspan=4|**Total of the Region**|**41**|**258**|**4,413**|**5,879,144**|**84,035.8**|****|||||||
_Arr._ = Arrondissements          _Cant._ = Cantons          _Comm._ = Communes

## Demographics

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region had, in 2014, a population of 5,879,144, for a population density of  inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup>.

The main cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants (2014) in the region are:

|INSEE code !! City !! Department !! Population <small>(2014)</small>||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|33063|Bordeaux|Gironde|246,586|
|87085|Limoges|Haute-Vienne|134,577|
|86194|Poitiers|Vienne|87,435|
|64445|Pau|Pyrénées-Atlantiques|77,489|
|17300|La Rochelle|Charente-Maritime|74,998|
|33281|Mérignac|Gironde|69,301|
|33318|Pessac|Gironde|61,514|
|79191|Niort|Deux-Sèvres|58,311|
|64102|Bayonne|Pyrénées-Atlantiques|48,178|
|19031|Brive-la-Gaillarde|Corrèze|46,961|
|16015|Angoulême|Charente|41,955|
|33522|Talence|Gironde|41,182|
|64024|Anglet|Pyrénées-Atlantiques|38,633|
|47001|Agen|Lot-et-Garonne|34,126|
|86066|Châtellerault|Vienne|31,722|
|33550|Villenave-d'Ornon|Gironde|31,027|
|40192|Mont-de-Marsan|Landes|31,009|
|24322|Périgueux|Dordogne|30,069|

## Related pages

- Aquitaine
- Limousin
- Poitou-Charentes
- Regions of France

## Other websites

- Regional Council website
- Prefecture of the region

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- **native name**:

- **native name lang**: fr
- **settlement type**: Regions of France, Region
- **image skyline**: Le chateau de La Roque en Perigord, vue d’ensemble N.E. en automne, commune de Meyrals, Dordogne, France.jpg
- **image caption**: The Château de la Roque in Meyrals
- **image flag**: File:Flag Nouvelle Aquitaine.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **image shield**: File:BlasonNouvelleAquitaine.svg
- **blank emblem size**: 75px
- **image map**: Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France 2016.svg
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **seat type**: Prefectures in France, Prefecture
- **seat**: Bordeaux
- **parts type**: Departments of France, Departments
- **parts style**: list
- **parts**: 12
- **p1**: Charente
- **p2**: Charente-Maritime
- **p3**: Corrèze
- **p4**: Creuse
- **p5**: Deux-Sèvres
- **p6**: Dordogne
- **p7**: Gironde
- **p8**: Haute-Vienne
- **p9**: Landes (department), Landes
- **p10**: Lot-et-Garonne
- **p11**: Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- **p12**: Vienne
- **leader party**: Socialist Party (France), PS
- **leader title**: List of current presidents of the regional councils of France and the Corsican Assembly, President of the Regional Council
- **leader name**: Alain Rousset
- **area total km2**: 84036
- **area rank**: 1st
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: New-aquitanians
- **timezone1**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset1**: +01:00
- **timezone1 dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset1 dst**: +02:00
- **blank name sec1**: Gross domestic product, GDP ()
- **blank info sec1**: List of French regions and overseas collectivities by GDP, Ranked
- **blank1 name sec1**: Total
- **blank1 info sec1**: € billion (US$ bn)
- **blank2 name sec1**: Per capita
- **blank2 info sec1**: € (US$)
- **blank name sec2**: First level NUTS of the European Union#France, NUTS Region
- **iso code**: FR-NAQ
- **blank1 name sec2**: Official languages
- **blank1 info sec2**: French language, French