Bordeaux

Bordeaux
Bordeaux; Bordèu
	Coat airms
	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"
	Bordeaux Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Bordeaux
	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.bordeaux.fr
	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]