Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Franco-Provençal: Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups)) is an administrative region of France that was created on 1 January 2016 from the former French regions Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. It is in the central and eastern parts of southern France.

Its capital is the city of Lyon.

Geography
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is the third largest region of Metropolitan France, after Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie, with an area of 69711.2 km2. It borders five French administrative regions: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to the north, Centre-Val de Loire to the northwest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the west, Occitanie to the southwest and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur to the southeast. It also borders two countries: Italy to the east and Switzerland to the northeast.

The region has the Massif Central to the east and the Alps to the east, with the valley of the Rhône river between them. Half of the Ain department is occupied by the Jura Mountains.

The extreme points for the region are in the communes:
 * North : Château-sur-Allier, Allier (46.80427°N, 2.95963°W)
 * East : Bonneval-sur-Arc, Savoie (45.40329°N, 7.18558°W)
 * South : Ferrassières, Drôme (44.11549°N, 5.49447°W)
 * West : Siran, Cantal (44.97662°N, 2.06289°W)

Its capital, Lyon, is at 465 km to the southwest of Paris, the national capital, at 315 km to the northwest of Marseille and at 554 km to the west of Bordeaux.

The distances from the different departmental capitals to Lyon, the regional capital, are:


 * Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) - 81 km
 * Moulins (Allier) - 204 km
 * Privas (Ardèche) - 142 km
 * Aurillac (Cantal) - 314 km
 * Valence (Drôme) - 102 km
 * Grenoble (Isère) - 106 km
 * Saint-Étienne (Loire) - 63 km
 * Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) - 134 km
 * Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) - 164 km
 * Chambéry (Savoie) - 99 km
 * Annecy (Haute-Savoie) - 101 km

Rivers
There are two main drainage basin in the region; some rivers in those basins are:


 * Atlantic basin
 * Loire
 * Allier


 * Mediterranean basin
 * Rhône
 * Saône

Mountains
The Mont Blanc (42.77389°N, 0.1475°W), at 4810 m, is the highest mountain of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France, Italy and of Western Europe.

The highest points in the different departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are:

Departments
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is formed by 13 departments:

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

Demographics
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region had a population, in 2014, of 7,820,966, for a population density of inhabitants/km2. The department with more people living in it is Rhône with 1,801,885 inhabitants.

The main cities in the region are:

Related pages

 * Auvergne
 * Rhône-Alpes
 * Regions of France

Other websites

 * Official website of the region
 * Prefecture of the region