Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Basic data
Country	France
prefecture	Bordeaux
President of the Regional Council	Alain Rousset ( PS )
population	5,956,978 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	70.9 inhabitants per km²
surface	84,030 km²
Departments	12
Arrondissements	41
Community associations	155
Cantons	258
Communities	4,314
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-NAQ
Relief map of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine [ nuvɛl akitɛn ], German  New Aquitaine ( Occitan Nòva Aquitània , Basque Akitania Berria ) is a French region that was created on October 1, 2016 by a resolution of the regional council of June 27. The region was created on January 1, 2016 under the provisional name Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes through the merger of the previous regions Aquitaine (Aquitaine), Limousin and Poitou-Charentes . This provisional name was formed from the names of the merged regions in alphabetical order.

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest region with 84,061 km² just before French Guiana and has 5,956,978 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), making it the fourth largest region in terms of population. It is divided into the twelve departments Charente , Charente-Maritime , Corrèze , Creuse , Deux-Sèvres , Dordogne , Gironde , Haute-Vienne , Landes , Lot-et-Garonne , Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Vienne . It borders (clockwise) on the regions of Pays de la Loire , Center-Val de Loire , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , Occitania and Spain .

The administrative seat of the region is Bordeaux .

Cities

The most populous cities in the region are:

city	Population (as of 2017)	Department
Bordeaux	254,436	Gironde
Limoges	132.175	Haute-Vienne
Poitiers	88.291	Vienne
Pau	77,130	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
La Rochelle	75,735	Charente-Maritime
Mérignac	70.105	Gironde
Pessac	63,808	Gironde
Niort	58,707	Deux-Sèvres
Bayonne	51,228	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Brive-la-Gaillarde	46,916	Corrèze

politics

Political structure

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is divided into 12 departments :

OZ	= Ordinal number of the department	Arr.	= Number of arrondissements	According to	= Number of municipalities
W.	= Coat of arms of the department	Kant.	= Number of cantons
ISO	= ISO-3166-2 code	GV	= Number of municipal associations

OZ	W.	Department	prefecture	ISO	Arr.	GV	Kant.	According to	Residents January 1, 2017	Area (km²)	Density (inh / km²)
16		Charente	Angoulême	FR-16	3	9	19th	366	352,335	5,956	59
17th		Charente-Maritime	La Rochelle	FR-17	5	13	27	463	644.303	6,864	94
19th		Corrèze	Grommet	FR-19	3	10	19th	280	241.464	5,856	41
23		Creuse	Guéret	FR-23	2	8th	15th	256	118,638	5,565	21st
24		Dordogne	Périgueux	FR-24	4th	22nd	25th	505	413,606	9,060	46
33		Gironde	Bordeaux	FR-33	6th	28	33	535	1,583,384	9,974	159
40		Country	Mont-de-Marsan	FR-40	2	18th	15th	327	407,444	9,243	44
47		Lot-et-Garonne	Agen	FR-47	4th	13	21st	319	332,842	5,361	62
64		Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Pau	FR-64	3	10	27	546	677,309	7,643	89
79		Deux-Sèvres	Niort	FR-79	3	8th	17th	256	374.351	5,999	62
86		Vienne	Poitiers	FR-86	3	7th	19th	266	436,876	6,990	63
87		Haute-Vienne	Limoges	FR-87	3	13	21st	195	374.426	5,519	68
total					41	155	258	4,314	5,956,978	84.030	71

Arrondissements in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Cantons in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Associations of municipalities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Regional council

Result of the election of the regional council on December 13, 2015:

• List Alain Rousset (Union de la Gauche from PS , PRG , EELV and FG ): 44.27% = 1,037,330 votes, 107 seats
• List of Virginie Calmels (Union de la Droite from LR , UDI and MoDem ): 34.06% = 798,142 votes, 47 seats
• Jacques Colombier list ( FN ): 21.67% = 507,770 votes, 29 seats

See also: List of Presidents of French Regional Councils

Web links

Commons : Nouvelle-Aquitaine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La région choisit son nom: Nouvelle-Aquitaine ( Memento of June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on laregion-alpc.fr, accessed on June 27, 2016
2. ↑ Résultats régionales 2015 - Aquitaine, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes (ALPC) on linternaute.com, accessed on January 6, 2016