Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
—  Region o Fraunce  —
Kintra	Fraunce
Prefectur	Marseille
Depairtments	6 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Hautes-Alpes Alpes-Maritimes Bouches-du-Rhône Var Vaucluse
Govrenment
- Preses	Michel Vauzelle (PS)
Aurie
- Tot	31,400 km2 (12,123.6 sq mi)
Indwallers (2010-01-01)
- Tot	4,951,388
- Densitie	157.7/km2 (408.4/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Simmer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
NUTS Region	FR8
Wabsteid	regionpaca.fr

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (French pronunciation: [pʁɔ.vɑ̃s alp kot da.zyʁ]; Template:Lang-oci) or PACA is ane o the 27 regions o Fraunce.

It is made up o:

• the umwhile French province o Provence
• the umwhile papal territory o Avignon, kent as Comtat Venaissin
• the umwhile Sardinian-Piedmontese coonty o Nice, whose coastline is kent in Inglis as the French Riviera, an in French as the Côte d'Azur
• the sootheastren pairt o the umwhile French province o Dauphiné, in the French Alps.

It encompasses sax depairtments in sooth-eastren Fraunce, bundit tae the east bi the Italian border, tae the sooth bi the Mediterranean Sea an bi the principality o Monaco, tae the north bi Rhône-Alpes, an tae the wast bi Languedoc-Roussillon, wi the Rhône river markin its wastmaist border. The sax depairtments are:

• Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
• Hautes-Alpes
• Alpes-Maritimes
• Bouches-du-Rhône
• Var
• Vaucluse

The region logo displays the coat o airms creatit in the 1990s an which combines the coats o airms o the auld provinces makkin up Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

Economically the region is the third maist important in Fraunce juist ahint Île-de-France an Rhône-Alpes. Its GDP in 2006 wis € 130,178 million ($US 163,600 million) an per caipita GDP wis € 27,095 ($US 34,051).

Major communities

The lairgest ceeties in the region are Marseille, Nice, Toulon, an Aix-en-Provence, each wi a population exceedin 100,000 inhabitants as o the 1999 census. The richest pairt o the Region is Nice's metropolitan aurie.

Marseille, the lairgest ceety in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

• Aix-en-Provence
• Antibes (includes Juan-les-Pins)
• Arles
• Aubagne
• Avignon
• Cannes
• Draguignan
• Fréjus
• Grasse
• Hyères
• La Seyne-sur-Mer
• Le Cannet
• Mandelieu-la-Napoule
• Marseille
• Mougins
• Martigues
• Nice
• Toulon
• Villeneuve-Loubet

Freemit airtins

• Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur at the Open Directory Project
• Conseil régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Offeecial wabsteid
• NotreProvence.fr Discover the Provence on NotreProvence.fr (fr)
• FranceSouth.com Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Guide