Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Nòva Aquitània) is one of the administrative regions of France. Its capital is Bordeaux.

It is in the southwest of France formed in 2014 by three old regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes was the temporary name for the region.

Geography
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is the largest region of France with an area of 84035.7 km2. It is in southwestern France and borders to the northwest with the Pays de la Loire region, to the north with the Centre-Val de Loire region, to the east with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, to the southwest with the Occitanie region and to the south with Spain.

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine has about 720 km of coast along the Atlantic Ocean.

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


 * Paris, the national capital, 585 km;
 * Toulouse, 243 km;
 * Marseille, 645 km;
 * Lyon, 554 km;
 * Montpellier, 480 km;
 * Nice, 801 km.

Rivers
The only main drainage basin in the region is the Atlantic basin; some of the rivers in region, from south to north, are:
 * Adour - 309 km.
 * Garonne - 647 km.
 * Dordogne - 483 km; it joins the Garonne river to form the Gironde estuary.
 * Charente - 381.4 km.
 * Sèvre Niortaise - 158.4 km.

Mountains
The territory of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed mostly by large plains and low plateaus (50 - 200 m high). In the northern part of the region, the highest point is Mont Bessou with an elevation of 976 m, in the Massif Central. In the southern part of the region, there are higher mountains in the Pyrenees.

The Pic Palas (42.84944°N, 0.31333°W), at 2974 m, is the highest mountain of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is in the Pyrenees mountain range of southern Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The highest point of the different departments in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region are:

Departments
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed by 12 departments:

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

Demographics
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region had, in 2014, a population of 5,879,144, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.

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

Related pages

 * Aquitaine
 * Limousin
 * Poitou-Charentes
 * Regions of France

Other websites

 * Regional Council website
 * Prefecture of the region