Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

**Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur** or **PACA** (, Italian: _Provenza-Alpi-Costa Azzurra_) is one of the 18 administrative regions of France. Its capital is Marseille.

## Geography

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is the tenth largest region of France with an area of . It is in southeastern France and borders to the east with Monaco and Italy (with the Italian regions of Liguria and Piedmont). To the north is the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and to the west is the Occitanie region.

To the south, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur has about  of coast along the Mediterranean Sea.

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

- Paris, the national capital, ;
- Toulouse, ;
- Bordeaux, ;
- Lyon, ;
- Montpellier, ;
- Nice, .

### Rivers

The only main drainage basin in the region is the Mediterranean basin; some of the rivers in region are:

- Rhône -
- Durance -
- Verdon -
- Var -
- Tinée -
- Estéron -
- Loup -
- Vésubie -
- Siagne -

### Mountains

The Barre des Écrins, at , is the highest mountain of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is in the Écrins National Park (), one of the ten French national parks.

The highest point of the different departments in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region are:
|Department|Mountain|Elevation|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Alpes-de-Haute-Provence|Aiguille de Chambeyron||
|Hautes-Alpes|Barre des Écrins||
|Alpes-Maritimes|Cime du Gélas||
|Bouches-du-Rhône|Bertagne||
|Var|Mont de Lachens||
|Vaucluse|Mont Ventoux||

## Departments

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is formed by 6 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-04|align="center"||align="left"|Alpes-de-Haute-Provence|align="left"|Digne-les-Bains|4|15|198|161,588|6,925.2||
|align="center"|FR-05|align="center"||align="left"|Hautes-Alpes|align="left"|Gap|2|15|167|139,883|5,548.7||
|align="center"|FR-06|align="center"||align="left"|Alpes-Maritimes|align="left"|Nice|2|27|163|1,083,312|4,298.6||
|align="center"|FR-13|align="center"||align="left"|Bouches-du-Rhône|align="left"|Marseille|4|29|135|2,006,069|5,087.5||
|align="center"|FR-83|align="center"||align="left"|Var|align="left"|Toulon|3|23|153|1,038,212|5,972.5||
|align="center"|FR-84|align="center"||align="left"|Vaucluse|align="left"|Avignon|3|17|151|554,374|3,567.3||
|align="center" colspan=4|**Total of the Region**|**18**|**126**|**967**|**4,983,438**|**31,399.8**|****|||||||
_Arr._ = Arrondissements          _Cant._ = Cantons          _Comm._ = Communes

## Demographics

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region had, in 2014, a population of 4,983,438, with 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>||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|13055|Marseille|Bouches-du-Rhône|858,120|
|06088|Nice|Alpes-Maritimes|343,895|
|83137|Toulon|Var|165,584|
|13001|Aix-en-Provence|Bouches-du-Rhône|142,149|
|84007|Avignon|Vaucluse|92,209|
|06004|Antibes|Alpes-Maritimes|75,731|
|06029|Cannes|Alpes-Maritimes|73,744|
|83126|La Seyne-sur-Mer|Var|64,675|
|83069|Hyères|Var|56,502|
|83061|Fréjus|Var|53,511|
|13004|Arles|Bouches-du-Rhône|52,697|
|06069|Grasse|Alpes-Maritimes|50,409|
|13056|Martigues|Bouches-du-Rhône|48,870|
|06027|Cagnes-sur-Mer|Alpes-Maritimes|47,811|
|13005|Aubagne|Bouches-du-Rhône|45,128|
|13103|Salon-de-Provence|Bouches-du-Rhône|44,187|
|13047|Istres|Bouches-du-Rhône|43,463|
|06030|Le Cannet|Alpes-Maritimes|42,454|
|05061|Gap|Hautes-Alpes|40,225|
|83050|Draguignan|Var|40,054|
|13028|La Ciotat|Bouches-du-Rhône|35,631|
|83118|Saint-Raphaël|Var|34,567|
|13117|Vitrolles|Bouches-du-Rhône|34,236|
|13054|Marignane|Bouches-du-Rhône|34,154|
|83129|Six-Fours-les-Plages|Var|33,652|

## Related pages

- Provence
- Regions of France

## Other websites

- Regional Council website
- Prefecture of the region
- Encyclopédie Larousse online

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- **native name lang**: fr
- **settlement type**: Regions of France, Region of France
- **image skyline**: Menton-Côte d'Azur.jpg
- **image caption**: View of Menton
- **image flag**: Flag of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **image shield**: Arms of the French Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.svg
- **blank emblem size**: 75px
- **image map**: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region locator map2.svg
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **seat type**: Prefectures in France, Prefecture
- **seat**: Marseille
- **parts type**: Departments of France, Departments
- **parts style**: list
- **parts**: 6
- **p1**: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- **p2**: Alpes-Maritimes
- **p3**: Bouches-du-Rhône
- **p4**: Hautes-Alpes
- **p5**: Var (department), Var
- **p6**: Vaucluse
- **leader party**: Miscellaneous right, DVD
- **leader title**: List of current presidents of the regional councils of France and the Corsican Assembly, President of the Regional Council
- **leader name**: Renaud Muselier
- **area total km2**: 31400
- **area rank**: 10th
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Provençals
- **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 (2012)
- **blank info sec1**: List of French regions and overseas collectivities by GDP, Ranked 3rd
- **blank1 name sec1**: Total
- **blank1 info sec1**: €142.4 billion (US$183.1 bn)
- **blank2 name sec1**: Per capita
- **blank2 info sec1**: €28,861 (US$37,121)
- **blank name sec2**: First level NUTS of the European Union, NUTS Region
- **blank info sec2**: FR8
- **website**: [https://www.maregionsud.fr/ maregionsud.fr]
- **iso code**: FR-PAC