Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur or PACA (Provença-Aups-Còsta d'Azur) is one of the 18 administrative regions of France. Its capital is Marseille.

Geography
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is the tenth largest region of France with an area of 31399.8 km2. It is in southeastern France and borders to the east with Monaco and Italy (with the Italian regions of Liguria and Piedmont). To the north is the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and to the west is the Occitanie region.

To the south, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur has about 900 km of coast along the Mediterranean Sea.

The distances from Marseille, the capital of the region, to other cities are:


 * Paris, the national capital, 775 km;
 * Toulouse, 407 km;
 * Bordeaux, 645 km;
 * Lyon, 315 km;
 * Montpellier, 169 km;
 * Nice, 203 km.

Rivers
The only main drainage basin in the region is the Mediterranean basin; some of the rivers in region are:


 * Rhône - 812 km
 * Durance - 320.9 km
 * Verdon - 165.7 km
 * Var - 113.8 km
 * Tinée - 69.9 km
 * Estéron - 66.6 km
 * Loup - 49.3 km
 * Vésubie - 45.1 km
 * Siagne - 44.3 km

Mountains
The Barre des Écrins (44.9225°N, 6.36°W), at 4102 m, is the highest mountain of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is in the Écrins National Park (Parc national des Écrins), one of the ten French national parks.

The highest point of the different departments in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region are:

Departments
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is formed by 6 departments:

Arr. = Arrondissements         Cant. = Cantons          Comm. = Communes

Demographics
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region had, in 2014, a population of 4,983,438, with a population density of inhabitants/km2.

The main cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants (2014) in the region are:

Related pages

 * Provence
 * Regions of France

Other websites

 * Regional Council website
 * Prefecture of the region
 * Encyclopédie Larousse online