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A Guide to Côte d'Azur

Category: Côte d’Azur – Provence & the Riviera – South-Eastern France

Capital : Nice

Population : 4 110 000

Unemployment Rate : 8.9 % (INSEE 2007)

Crime : 52.1 per 1000 (35.9 nationally) (INHESJ 2009)

Area : 15 418 km2

Airports : (Avignon), Marseille, Nice, Toulon, (Cannes-Mandelieu, St Tropez)

Ferry Ports : Marseille, Nice, Toulon

President (Conseil Régional) : Michel Vauzelle (PS)

Economy : Tourism, Agriculture, Technology, Industry

Description:

Guide2Coted’Azur covers three of the six deparments that make up Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur or PACA, which is one of the 27 regions of France.

It is made up of :

the former French province of Provence
the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin
the former Sardinian-Piedmontese county of Nice, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur
the south eastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps

It encompasses six departments in south-eastern France, bounded to the east by the Italian border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and by the principality of Monaco, to the north by Rhône Alpes, and to the west by Languedoc Roussillon, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.

The six departments and their numbers (which mostly allocated alphabetically) are :

Alpes de Haute Provence (04)
Hautes Alpes (05)
Alpes Maritimes (06)
Bouches du Rhône (13)
Var (83)
Vaucluse (84)

Guide2Coted’Azur covers the the three southernmost departments that adjoin the Mediterranean sea – Bouches du Rhône, Var and Alpes Maritimes, stretching from Arles in the west to Menton in the east, on the Italian border.

Economically the region is the third most important in France just behind Île-de-France and Rhône-Alpes. Its GDP in 2006 was € 130 178 million ($US 163 600 million) and per capita GDP was € 27 095 ($US 34 051).

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