Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Franco-Provençal: Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; ) is an administrative region of France that was created on 1 January 2016 from the former French regions Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. It is in the central and eastern parts of southern France.

Its capital is the city of Lyon.

Geography
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is the third largest region of Metropolitan France, after Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie, with an area of . It borders five French administrative regions: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to the north, Centre-Val de Loire to the northwest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the west, Occitanie to the southwest and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to the southeast. It also borders two countries: Italy to the east and Switzerland to the northeast.

The region has the Massif Central to the east and the Alps to the east, with the valley of the Rhône river between them. Half of the Ain department is occupied by the Jura Mountains.

The extreme points for the region are in the communes:
 North : Château-sur-Allier, Allier ()
 East : Bonneval-sur-Arc, Savoie ()
 South : Ferrassières, Drôme ()
 West : Siran, Cantal ()

Its capital, Lyon, is at  to the southwest of Paris, the national capital, at  to the northwest of Marseille and at  to the west of Bordeaux.

The distances from the different departmental capitals to Lyon, the regional capital, are:

 Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) - 
 Moulins (Allier) - 
 Privas (Ardèche) - 
 Aurillac (Cantal) - 
 Valence (Drôme) - 
 Grenoble (Isère) - 
 Saint-Étienne (Loire) - 
 Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) - 
 Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) - 
 Chambéry (Savoie) - 
 Annecy (Haute-Savoie) - 

Rivers
There are two main drainage basin in the region; some rivers in those basins are:

 Atlantic basin
 Loire
 Allier

 Mediterranean basin
 Rhône
 Saône

Mountains
The Mont Blanc (), at , is the highest mountain of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France, Italy and of Western Europe.

The highest points in the different departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are:

 Department  Mountain  Elevation Ain  Crêt de la Neige   Allier  Puy de Montoncel   Ardèche  Mont Mézenc   Cantal  Plomb du Cantal   Drôme  Rocher Rond   Isère  Pic Lory   Loire  Pierre-sur-Haute   Haute-Loire  Mont Mézenc   Puy-de-Dôme  Puy de Sancy   Rhône  Mont Saint-Rigaud   Savoie  La Grande Casse   Haute-Savoie  Mont Blanc  

Departments
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is formed by 13 departments and one territorial collectivity with the same powers as a department.

 ISO3166-2 Shield Department Prefecture Arr. Cant. Comm. Population(2014)Area(km²)Density(Inh./km²) FR-0122px Ain Bourg-en-Bresse 4 23 408 626,127 5,762.4  FR-0322px Allier Moulins 3 19 317 343,062 7,340.1  FR-0722px Ardèche Privas 3 17 339 322,381 5,528.6  FR-1522px Cantal Aurillac 3 15 255 146,618 5,726.0  FR-2622px Drôme Valence 3 19 367 499,159 6,530.0  FR-3822px Isère  Grenoble 3 29 521 1,243,597 7,431.5  FR-4222px Loire Saint-Étienne 3 21 326 757,305 4,780.6  FR-4322px Haute-Loire Le Puy-en-Velay 3 19 257 226,565 4,977.1  FR-6322px Puy-de-Dôme Clermont-Ferrand 5 31 467 644,216 7,969.7  FR-6922px Rhône Lyon 2 13 208 474,369 2,715  FR-69M Lyon Metropolis Lyon 1 0 58 1,433,613 533.68  FR-7322px Savoie Chambéry 3 19 285 426,924 6,028.3  FR-7422px Haute-Savoie Annecy 4 17 281 783,127 4,387.8  Total of the Region 39 242 4,112 7,820,966 69,711.2 
Arr. = Arrondissements          Cant. = Cantons          Comm. = Communes

Demographics
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region had a population, in 2014, of 7,820,966, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The department with more people living in it is Rhône with 1,801,885 inhabitants.

The main cities in the region are:

 INSEEcode City Department Population(2014) 69123  Lyon  Métropole de Lyon  506,615 42218  Saint-Étienne  Loire  170,761 38185  Grenoble Isère  160,779 69266  Villeurbanne  Métropole de Lyon  148,543 63113  Clermont-Ferrand  Puy-de-Dôme  141,365 74010  Annecy  Haute-Savoie  124,376 69259  Vénissieux  Métropole de Lyon  62,575 26362  Valence  Drôme  62,150 73065  Chambéry  Savoie  59,490 69256  Vaulx-en-Velin  Métropole de Lyon  45,294

Gallery

Related pages
 Auvergne
 Rhône-Alpes
 Regions of France

References

Other websites

 Official website of the region 
 Prefecture of the region 


Category:2016 establishments in France