Bordeaux
Coordinates: 44°50′19″N 0°34′42″W / 44.8386°N 0.5783°W
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Commune o Bordeaux |
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Motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. |
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| Top:View o Bourse Palace an Garonne River, Middle left:View ot Saint-Andre Cathedral and Bordeax Tramway, Middle right:Night view of Allees du Tourny and Maison de Vin, Bottom left:Front of Palais Rohan Hotel, Bottom center:Meriadeck Commercial Center, Bottom right:Pierre Bridge in Garonne River | |
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  Bordeaux
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| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Depairtment | Gironde |
| Arrondissement | Bordeaux |
| Intercommunality | Bordeaux |
| Mayor | Alain Juppé (UMP) (2008–2014) |
| Statistics | |
| Population2 | 235,891 (2008) |
| - Ranking | 9t in Fraunce |
| Urban spread | |
| Urban aurie | 1,057 km2 (408 sq mi) (2008 estimate) |
| - Population | 832,605 (2008 estimate) |
| Metro aurie | 3,875.2 km2 (1,496.2 sq mi) (2008 estimate) |
| - Population | 1,105,000 (6t in Fraunce) (2008 estimate) |
| Wabsteid | bordeaux.fr |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an military personnel) anerlie coontit ance. | |
Bordeaux (French pronunciation: [bɔʁdo] (
listen); Gascon: Bordèu) is a port ceety on the Garonne River in soothwast Fraunce, wi an estimatit (2008) population o 250,082. The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan aurie, haes a population o 1,010,000 an constitutes the saxt-lairgest urban aurie in Fraunce. It is the caipital o the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur o the Gironde depairtment. Its inhabitants are cried Bordelais.
Bordeaux is the warld's major wine industry caipital. It is hame tae the warld's main wine fair, Vinexpo,[1] while the wine economy in the metro aurie moves 14.5 billion euros each year.[2] Bordeaux wine haes been produced in the region syne the aicht century. The historic pairt o the ceety is on the UNESCO Warld Heritage Leet as "an ootstaundin urban an architectural ensemble" o the 18t century.[3]
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Internaitional relationship [edit]
Twin touns - sister ceeties [edit]
Bordeaux is twinned wi:
Bristol, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1947[4]
Lima, Peru, syne 1957
Quebec Ceety, Canadae, syne 1962
Munich, Germany, syne 1964
Los Angeles, Unitit States, syne 1968
Porto, Portugal, syne 1978[5]
Fukuoka, Japan, syne 1982
Bilbao, Spain- Madrid, Spain, syne 1984
Ashdod, Israel, syne 1984
Baku, Azerbaijan, syne 1985
Casablanca, Morocco, syne 1988
Wuhan, Cheenae, syne 1998
Oran, Algerie, syne 2003
Zahlé, Lebanon, syne 2006
Pairtnerships [edit]
Saunt Petersburg, Roushie, syne 1993[6]
Kraków, Poland, syne 1993 [7]
Riga, Latvie[8]
Samsun, Turkey, syne 2010[9]
References [edit]
- ↑ http://www.vinexpo.com/en/a-propos/historique
- ↑ http://www.ventoris.fr/portage_salarial_bordeaux.php
- ↑ "In Pictures | In pictures: New World Heritage sites", BBC News, 2007-06-28. Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009..
- ↑ Bristol City - Town twinning. © 2009 Bristol City Council. Retrieved on 17 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ International Relations of the City of Porto. © 2006-2009 Municipal Directorateofthe PresidencyServices InternationalRelationsOffice. Retrieved on 10 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ Saint Petersburg in figures - International and Interregional Ties. Saint Petersburg City Government. Retrieved on 23 Mairch 2008. .
- ↑ Kraków otwarty na świat. www.krakow.pl. Retrieved on 19 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ Twin cities of Riga. Riga City Council. Retrieved on 27 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ Samsun- Bordeaux işbirliği sözleşmesini imzalandı (Turkish). HaberExen.com. Retrieved on 22 November 2010. .
Freemit airtins [edit]
