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:

 ISO3166-2 Shield Department Prefecture Arr. Cant. Comm. Population(2014)Area(km²)Density(Inh./km²) FR-0422px Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Digne-les-Bains 4 15 198 161,588 6,925.2  FR-0522px Hautes-Alpes Gap 2 15 167 139,883 5,548.7  FR-0622px Alpes-Maritimes Nice 2 27 163 1,083,312 4,298.6  FR-1322px Bouches-du-Rhône Marseille 4 29 135 2,006,069 5,087.5  FR-8322px Var Toulon 3 23 153 1,038,212 5,972.5  FR-8422px Vaucluse Avignon 3 17 151 554,374 3,567.3  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/km2.

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

 INSEEcode  City  Department  Population(2014) 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

Gallery

Related pages
 Provence
 Regions of France

References

Other websites

 Regional Council website 
 Prefecture of the region
 Encyclopédie Larousse online