Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Coat of airms o Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Coat airms
Location o Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Fraunce
Location o Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Fraunce
Coordinates: 43°15′N 00°50′E / 43.250°N 0.833°E / 43.250; 0.833
KintraFraunce
RegionNew Aquitaine
PrefecturPau
SubprefecturesBayonne
Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Govrenment
 • Preses o the General CooncilGeorges Labazée
Area
 • Total7645 km2 (2,952 sq mi)
Population
 (2008)
 • Total647,420
 • Rank37t
 • Density85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment nummer64
Arrondissements3
Cantons52
Communes547
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French pronunciation: ​[pi.ʁe.ne.a.tlɑ̃.tik]; Gascon: Pirenèus-Atlantics; Basque: Pirinio-Atlantiarrak or [Pirinio-Atlantikoak] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); Spaingie: Pirineos Atlánticos) is a depairtment in the soothwast o Fraunce which taks its name frae the Pyrenees muntains an the Atlantic Ocean.

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The coat o airms o Pyrénées-Atlantiques combines thae o fower tradeetional provinces:

  1. Lawer Navarre
  2. Béarn
  3. Labourd
  4. Soule

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