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{{Infobox French region
|Name           = Rhône-Alpes
|Native_name    = 
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|map            = Rimex-France location Rhône-Alpes.svg
|flag           = Rhône-Alpes flag.svg
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|shield         = Blason Rhône-Alpes Gendarmerie.svg
|capital        = Lyon
|largest_city   = Lyon
|area           = 43698
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|population     = 6218444
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|pop_date       = 2010-01-01
|pop_rank       = 2nt
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|Website        = [http://www.rhonealpes.fr/ rhonealpes.fr]
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|leader         = [[Jean-Jack Queyranne]]
|leader_party   = [[Socialist Pairty (Fraunce)|PS]]
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|departments    = 8
|dept1          = [[Ain]]
|dept2          = [[Ardèche]]
|dept3          = [[Drôme]]
|dept4          = [[Isère]]
|dept5          = [[Loire]]
|dept6          = [[Rhône (depairtment)|Rhône]]
|dept7          = [[Savoie]]
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'''Rhône-Alpes''' ({{IPA-fr|ron.alp|-|Fr-Rhône-Alpes.oga}}; [[Arpitan language|Arpitan]]: ''Rôno-Arpes''; {{lang-oc|Ròse-Aups}}) is ane o the 27 [[Regions o Fraunce|regions]] o [[Fraunce]], locatit on the eastren border o the kintra, towards the sooth. The region wis named efter the [[Rhône River]] an the [[Alps]] muntain range. Its caipital, [[Lyon]], is the seicont-lairgest metropolitan aurie in Fraunce efter [[Paris]]. Rhône-Alpes haes the saxt-lairgest economy o ony European region.

== Geography ==
Rhône-Alpes is locatit in the east o Fraunce.  Tae the north are the French regions o [[Bourgogne]] (Burgundy) an [[Franche-Comté]], tae the wast it borders the region [[Auvergne (region)|Auvergne]], tae the sooth it borders [[Languedoc-Roussillon]] an [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]]. The east o the region contains the wastmaist pairt o the [[Alps]] an borders [[Swisserland]] an [[Italy]].  The heichest peak is [[Mont Blanc]], on the French-Italian border.  The central pairt o the region comprises the river valleys o the [[Rhône river|Rhône]] an the [[Saône]]. The confluence o these twa rivers is at Lyon. The wastren pairt o the region contains the stairt o the [[Massif Central]] muntain range.  The region an aw borders or contains major lakes such as [[Lake Geneva]] (''Lac Léman'') an [[Lake Annecy]].  The [[Ardèche River]] flows through the soothwast portion o the region, whaur it haes carved the deepest gorge in [[Europe]].

As wi the rest o [[Fraunce]], [[French leid|French]] is the anerlie offeecial leid o the region. Till the mid-20t century, [[Arpitan]] wis widely spaken in the whole region, while mony o the inhabitants o the sooth spoke varieties o [[Occitan]]; baith are in steep decline in this region. There are immigrant populations frae [[Armenie]], [[Italy]], [[North Africae]], [[Poland]] an [[Portugal]] amangst ither places.

Rhône-Alpes is made up o the follaein ''[[depairtments o Fraunce|départements]]'':
* [[Ain]] (01). Caipital: [[Bourg-en-Bresse]]
* [[Ardèche]] (07). Caipital: [[Privas]]
* [[Drôme]] (26). Caipital: [[Valence, Drôme|Valence]]
* [[Isère]] (38). Caipital: [[Grenoble]]
* [[Loire]] (42). Caipital: [[Saint-Étienne]]
* [[Rhône (depairtment)|Rhône]] (69). Caipital: [[Lyon]]
* [[Savoie]] (73). Caipital: [[Chambéry]]
* [[Haute-Savoie]] (74). Caipital: [[Annecy]]

== Population ==

Rhône-Alpes contains 3 major ceeties in Fraunce. It forms the triangle Lyon - Grenoble - Saint-Étienne. This triangle is the economic core o the region. These three urban auries are vera complementary, an hae smawer ceeties aroond, like satellites.

* [[Lyon]] aurie : 1,798,395 inhabitants (2008)
* [[Grenoble]] aurie : 560,453 inhabitants (2008)
* [[Saint-Étienne]] aurie : 321,703 inhabitants (1999)
* [[Valence, Drôme|Valence]] aurie : 164,334 inhabitants (2008)

== Prefecturs ==
This leet is frae biggest agglomeration tae the smawest:
* [[Lyon]] ([[Rhône]])
* [[Grenoble]] ([[Isère (depairtment)|Isère]])
* [[Saint-Étienne]] ([[Loire (depairtment)|Loire]])
* [[Valence, Drôme|Valence]] ([[Drôme (dpairtment)|Drôme]])
* [[Chambéry]] ([[Savoie (depairtment)|Savoie]])
* [[Annecy]] ([[Haute-Savoie]])
* [[Bourg-en-Bresse]] ([[Ain (depairtment)|Ain]])
* [[Privas]] ([[Ardèche]])

==Major ceeties==
{| width="50%"
| [[Annecy]]||[[Saint-Chamond]]
|-
| [[Bourg-en-Bresse]]||[[Saint-Étienne]]
|-
| [[Bron]]||[[Saint-Martin-d'Hères]]
|-
| [[Chambéry]]||[[Thonon-les-Bains]]
|-
| [[Grenoble]]||[[Valence, Drôme|Valence]]
|-
| [[Lyon]]||[[Vaulx-en-Velin]]
|-
| [[Roanne]]||[[Vénissieux]]
|-
| [[Montélimar]]||[[Villeurbanne]]
|-
| 
|}

==Sport==
===Fitbaa===
{{main|Olympique Lyonnais}}
Rhône-Alpes is the hame o several successful [[fitbaa]] teams, includin [[Olympique Lyonnais]] an [[AS Saint-Étienne]] (ane o the umwhile clubs o [[Michel Platini]]). Anither team joined the french top-level in 2008 : [[Grenoble Foot 38]].

===Winter Olympics===
Rhône-Alpes region haes hostit the [[Winter Olympics]] three times; in [[1924 Winter Olympics|1924]] at [[Chamonix]], [[1968 Winter Olympics|1968]] at [[Grenoble]], an [[1992 Winter Olympics|1992]] at [[Albertville]]. Annecy tried tae be 4th ceety, but it failed due tae Pyeongchang.

===Lakes===
There are sax main lakes in Rhône-Alpes
* [[Lac de Paladru]]
* [[Lac d'Aiguebelette]]
* [[Lac du Bourget]]
* [[Lac d'Annecy]]
* [[Lac de Nantua]]
* [[Lac Léman]]

== See also ==
*[[Transport in Rhône-Alpes]]

==External links==

*[http://www.front.blendnz.com/2011/06/01/rhone-alpes '''Rhône-Alpes sur the French Blend :'''  Français d'un Kiwi]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[http://www.entreprise-europe-raa.fr/?int=1 '''Rhône-Alpes Enterprise Europe Network :''' Innovation, technologies transfer and partnership in Europe]
*[http://www.rhonealpes-tourisme.com/?int=1 Rhône-Alpes Official Travel Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130045636/http://www.rhonealpes-tourisme.com/?int=1 |date=2010-11-30 }}
*[http://www.innovation.rhone-alpes.cci.fr '''Espace Innovation des CCI de Rhône-Alpes''': news, agenda, services]
* [http://www.aerospace-cluster.com/Rhone-Alpes_Aerospace_Cluster_Composites_embedd.847.0.html Aerospace Cluster in Rhône-Alpes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228150638/http://www.aerospace-cluster.com/Rhone-Alpes_Aerospace_Cluster_Composites_embedd.847.0.html |date=2011-12-28 }} - Network of Aerospace SMEs from the Rhône-Alpes Region, supported by the Regional Council
*[http://www.travelevdokia.com/en/car-transfer-rhone-alpes/ '''Airport transfers in the Rhône-Alpes'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101035133/http://www.travelevdokia.com/en/car-transfer-rhone-alpes/ |date=2011-11-01 }}

==References==
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