bordeaux meaning
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France. The municipality of Bordeaux proper has a population of 246,586. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux MÃ©tropole. With 760,933 inhabitants and 1,195,335 in the metropolitan area, it is the sixth largest in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde