Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is one of the administrative regions of France. Its capital is Bordeaux. By land area, it is the largest region of France.

It is in the southwest of France formed in 2014 by three old regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes was the temporary name for the region.

Geography
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is the largest region of France with an area of . It is in southwestern France and borders to the northwest with the Pays de la Loire region, to the north with the Centre-Val de Loire region, to the east with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, to the southwest with the Occitanie region and to the south with Spain.

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine has about  of coast along the Atlantic Ocean.

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

 Paris, the national capital, 
 Toulouse, 
 Marseille, 
 Lyon, 
 Montpellier, 
 Nice, 

Rivers
The only main drainage basin in the region is the Atlantic basin; some of the rivers in region, from south to north, are:
 Adour - 
 Garonne - 
 Dordogne - ; it joins the Garonne river to form the Gironde estuary
 Charente - 
 Sèvre Niortaise - 

Mountains
The territory of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed mostly by large plains and low plateaus ( high). In the northern part of the region, the highest point is Mont Bessou with an elevation of , in the Massif Central. In the southern part of the region, there are higher mountains in the Pyrenees.

The Pic Palas (), at , is the highest mountain of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is in the Pyrenees mountain range of southern Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The highest point of the different departments in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region are:
 Department  Mountain  Elevation Charente  Rocher aux Oiseaux   Charente-Maritime  Bois de Chantemerlière   Corrèze  Mont Bessou   Creuse  Forêt de Châteauvert   Dordogne  Forêt de Vieillecour   Gironde  Colline de Samazeuil   Landes  Colline de Lauret   Lot-et-Garonne  Bois Redon   Pyrénées-Atlantiques  Pic Palas   Deux-Sèvres  Terrier de Saint-Martin-du-Fouilloux   Vienne  Les Frémigis   Haute-Vienne  Puy de Crozat  

Departments
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed by 12 departments:

 ISO3166-2 Shield Department Prefecture Arr. Cant. Comm. Population(2014)Area(km²)Density(Inh./km²) FR-1622px Charente Angoulême 3 19 383 353,853 5,956.0  FR-1722px Charente-Maritime La Rochelle 5 27 469 637,089 6,863.8  FR-1922px Corrèze Tulle 3 19 283 241,340 5,856.8  FR-2322px Creuse Guéret 2 15 258 120,581 5565.4  FR-2422px Dordogne Périgueux 4 25 520 416,350 9,060.0  FR-3322px Gironde Bordeaux 6 33 538 1,526,016 9,975.6  FR-4022px Landes Mont-de-Marsan 2 15 330 400,477 9,242.6  FR-4722px Lot-et-Garonne Agen 4 21 319 333,234 5,360.9  FR-6422px Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pau 3 27 546 667,249 7,644.8  FR-7922px Deux-Sèvres Niort 3 17 293 373,553 5,999.4  FR-8622px Vienne Poitiers 3 19 274 433,203 6,990.4  FR-8722px Haute-Vienne Limoges 3 21 200 376,199 5,520.1  Total of the Region 41 258 4,413 5,879,144 84,035.8 
Arr. = Arrondissements          Cant. = Cantons          Comm. = Communes

Demographics
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region had, in 2014, a population of 5,879,144, for 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) 33063  Bordeaux  Gironde  246,586 87085  Limoges  Haute-Vienne  134,577 86194  Poitiers  Vienne  87,435 64445  Pau  Pyrénées-Atlantiques  77,489 17300  La Rochelle  Charente-Maritime  74,998 33281  Mérignac  Gironde  69,301 33318  Pessac  Gironde  61,514 79191  Niort  Deux-Sèvres  58,311 64102  Bayonne  Pyrénées-Atlantiques  48,178 19031  Brive-la-Gaillarde  Corrèze  46,961 16015  Angoulême  Charente  41,955 33522  Talence  Gironde  41,182 64024  Anglet  Pyrénées-Atlantiques  38,633 47001  Agen  Lot-et-Garonne  34,126 86066  Châtellerault  Vienne  31,722 33550  Villenave-d'Ornon  Gironde  31,027 40192  Mont-de-Marsan  Landes  31,009 24322  Périgueux  Dordogne  30,069

Gallery

Related pages
 Aquitaine
 Limousin
 Poitou-Charentes
 Regions of France

References

Other websites

 Regional Council website  
 Prefecture of the region


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