Occitanie

Occitanie (, ) is an administrative region of France. It was created on 1 January 2016 from the former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. 

The name in French, Occitanie, was approved as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016.

The new Occitanie Region is the main part of a wider cultural entity known as Occitania. This wider region once included part of Spain (Aran Valley), and Monaco, and parts of Italy (the Occitan Valleys and Guardia Piemontese). This wider area used to speak Occitan as their first language.

Geography
The Occitanie region is the third largest region of France, after Nouvelle-Aquitaine and French Guiana, and the second of Metropolitan France with an area of . It is in southern France (the Midi) and borders to the south with Spain and Andorra; it also borders three French regions: Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the west, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the north, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to the east. The Mediterranean Sea is to the southeast.

Its capital, Toulouse, is at  to the southwest of  Paris, the national capital, at  to the west of Marseille, at  to the southeast of Bordeaux and at  to the north of Barcelona (Spain).

Rivers
There are two main drainage basin in the region; some rivers in those basins are:
 Atlantic basin
 Garonne river is  long but, in the region it is  long, more than half its total length.
 Tarn 
 Aveyron 
 Agout 
 Lot 
 Ariège 
 Gers 

 Mediterranean basin
 Tech 
 Têt 
 Agly 
 Aude 
 Rhône 

Mountains
The Pic Vignemale (), at , is the highest mountain of the Occitanie region; it is on the border with Spain. It is in the Pyrénées National Park.

The highest point of the different departments of the Occitanie region are:
 Department  Mountain  Elevation Ariège  Pica d'Estats   Aude  Pic de Madrès   Aveyron  Signal de Mailhe-Biau   Gard  Mont Aigoual   Haute-Garonne  Perdiguero   Gers  Mont de Chapelle Saint Roch   Hérault  Valbonne   Lot  Signal de Labastide-du-Haut-Mont   Lozère  Mont Lozère   Hautes-Pyrénées  Pic Vignemale   Pyrénées-Orientales  Pic Carlit   Tarn  Puech de Rascas   Tarn-et-Garonne  Puech des Carts-Sommet Nord  

Departments
The Occitanie region is formed by 13 departments:

 ISO3166-2 Shield Department Prefecture Arr. Cant. Comm. Population(2014)Area(km²)Density(Inh./km²) FR-0922px Ariège Foix 3 13 332 152,574 4,889.9  FR-1122px Aude Carcassonne 3 19 436 365,478 6,139.0  FR-1222px Aveyron Rodez 3 23 286 278,644 8,735.1  FR-3022px Gard Nîmes 3 23 353 736,029 5,852.8  FR-3122px Haute-Garonne Toulouse 3 27 589 1,317,668 6,309.3  FR-3222px Gers  Auch 3 17 462 190,625 6,256.8  FR-3422px Hérault Montpellier 3 25 343 1,107,398 6,101.0  FR-4622px Lot Cahors 3 17 326 173,648 5,216.5  FR-4822px Lozère Mende 2 13 176 76,360 5,166.9  FR-6522px Hautes-Pyrénées Tarbes 3 17 470 228,950 4,464.0  FR-6622px Pyrénées-Orientales     Perpignan 3 17 226 466,327 4,116.0  FR-8122px Tarn Albi 2 23 320 384,474 5,757.9  FR-8222px Tarn-et-Garonne Montauban 2 30 195 252,578 3,718.3  Total of the Region 36 264 4,514 5,730,753 72,723.5 
Arr. = Arrondissements          Cant. = Cantons          Comm. = Communes

Demographics
The Occitanie region had a population, in 2014, of 5,730,753, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

The important cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants (2014) in the region are:

 INSEEcode City Department Population(2014) 31555  Toulouse  Haute-Garonne  466,297 34172  Montpellier  Hérault  275,318 30189  Nîmes Gard  151,075 66136  Perpignan  Pyrénées-Orientales  120,605 34032  Béziers  Hérault  75,701 82121  Montauban  Tarn-et-Garonne  58,826 11262  Narbonne  Aude  52,855 81004  Albi  Tarn  49,531 11069  Carcassonne  Aude  45,941 34301  Sète  Hérault  44,136 81065  Castres  Tarn  41,382 65440  Tarbes  Hautes-Pyrénées  40,900 30007  Alès  Gard  39,993 31149  Colomiers  Haute-Garonne  38,541 31557  Tournefeuille  Haute-Garonne  26,674 34003  Agde  Hérault  26,111 31395  Muret  Haute-Garonne  24,975 34145  Lunel  Hérault  24,873 12202  Rodez  Aveyron  24,088 31069  Blagnac  Haute-Garonne  23,416 34108  Frontignan  Hérault  22,896 12145  Millau  Aveyron  22,064 32013  Auch  Gers  21,807

Gallery

Related pages
 Languedoc-Roussillon
 Midi-Pyrénées
 Regions of France

References

Other websites

 Official website of the region 
 Prefecture of the region 


Category:2016 establishments in France