page_title: Alpes-Maritimes
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Alpes-Maritimes / Geography / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Géographie du département des Alpes-maritimes (06 - FRANCE). Réalisation André Payan-Passeron - diplômé d'études supérieures de géographie - à partir d'un extrait de la carte "Massifs des Alpes.png" de Wikimédia Commons réalisée les 11/09/2006 et 04/01/2007 par Lango puis par Gemini 1980.
context_page_description: Alpes-Maritimes is a department of France located in the extreme southeast corner of the country, on the border with Italy and on the Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it had a population of 1,083,310 in 2017.
  It has become in recent years one of the world's most attractive destinations, featuring cities such as Nice, Cannes, Antibes and Grasse, and numerous alpine ski resorts. Alpes-Maritimes also entirely surrounds Monaco. The department's inhabitants are called Maralpins or Maralpines; it has the same flag and arms as the City of Nice.
context_section_description: The Alpes-Maritimes department is surrounded by the departments of Var in the southwest, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the northwest, Italy to the north and east, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It surrounds the Principality of Monaco on the west, north and east.
  Its topography is very mixed. As its name suggests, most of the department is a constituent part of the overall topographic Alps – including the Maritime Alps – but it also has the distinction of being a coastal district with its Mediterranean coast. The coastal area, urbanized and densely populated (shaded in red on the map), includes all the cities in an almost continuous conurbation from Cannes to Menton, while the larger but sparsely populated mountainous area (light green) is fully rural with the exception of the three large resorts of Valberg (created in 1936), Auron (created in 1937), and Isola 2000 (created in 1971).
caption: Geography of Alpes-Maritimes
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