Bordeaux
Bordeaux Bordèu | |
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Motto(s): Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. "The fleur-de-lis alone rules over the moon, the waves, the castle, and the lion" | |
Coordinates: 44°50′19″N 0°34′42″W / 44.8386°N 0.5783°WCoordinates: 44°50′19″N 0°34′42″W / 44.8386°N 0.5783°W | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Depairtment | Gironde |
Arrondissement | Bordeaux |
Intercommunality | Bordeaux |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Nicolas Florian (LR) |
Area 1 | 49.36 km2 (19.06 sq mi) |
• Urban (2008 estimate) | 1057 km2 (408 sq mi) |
• Metro (2008 estimate) | 3875.2 km2 (1,496.2 sq mi) |
Population (2016-01-01)2 | 256,045 |
• Rank | 9t in Fraunce |
• Density | 5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi) |
• Urban (2008 estimate) | 832,605 |
• Urban density | 790/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
• Metro (2008 estimate) | 1,105,000 (6t in Fraunce) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 33063 / |
Website | www |
1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly 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 region o New Aquitaine, 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]
Internaitional relationship
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns - sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]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
[eedit | eedit soorce]Saunt Petersburg, Roushie, syne 1993[6]
Kraków, Poland, syne 1993 [7]
Riga, Latvie[8]
Samsun, Turkey, syne 2010[9]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ http://www.vinexpo.com/en/a-propos/historique Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.ventoris.fr/portage_salarial_bordeaux.php[deid airtin]
- ↑ "In Pictures | In pictures: New World Heritage sites". BBC News. 28 Juin 2007. Retrieved 5 Mey 2009.
- ↑ "Bristol City - Town twinning". © 2009 Bristol City Council. Archived frae the original on 28 Julie 2011. Retrieved 17 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
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(help) - ↑ "International Relations of the City of Porto". © 2006-2009 Municipal Directorateofthe PresidencyServices InternationalRelationsOffice. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 6 Januar 2019. Retrieved 10 Julie 2009.
- ↑ "Saint Petersburg in figures - International and Interregional Ties". Saint Petersburg City Government. Archived frae the original on 24 Februar 2009. Retrieved 23 Mairch 2008.
- ↑ "Kraków otwarty na świat". www.krakow.pl. Retrieved 19 Julie 2009.
- ↑ "Twin cities of Riga". Riga City Council. Archived frae the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 27 Julie 2009.
- ↑ "Samsun- Bordeaux işbirliği sözleşmesini imzalandı" (in Turkish). HaberExen.com. Retrieved 22 November 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)[deid airtin]
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