Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Basic data
Country	France
prefecture	Dijon
President of the Regional Council	Marie-Guite Dufay ( PS )
population	2,811,423 (2017)
Population density	58.8 inhabitants per km²
surface	47,790 km²
Departments	8th
Arrondissements	24
Community associations	120
Cantons	152
Communities	3,702
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-BFC
Relief map of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [ buʁgɔɲ fʁãʃ kɔ̃te ] (abbreviation BFC ; German  Burgundy- Free County [Burgundy] ) is the name of the French region that was created on January 1, 2016 through the merger of the previous regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté . The capital of the region is Dijon .

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is the fifth largest region with 47,784 km² (excluding overseas regions) and has 2,811,423 inhabitants (as of 2017), making it the third smallest region in terms of population. It is divided into the eight departments of Côte-d'Or , Doubs , Haute-Saône , Jura , Nièvre , Saône-et-Loire , Territoire de Belfort and Yonne . It borders (starting clockwise from the north) with the Grand Est region , Switzerland and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , Center-Val de Loire and Île-de-France regions .

Cities

The most populous cities in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region are:

city	Inhabitants (year)	Department
Dijon	156,920 (2017)	Côte-d'Or
Besançon	115,934 (2017)	Doubs
Belfort	47,656 (2017)	Territoire de Belfort
Chalon-sur-Saône	45,096 (2017)	Saône-et-Loire
Auxerre	34,634 (2017)	Yonne
Nevers	32,990 (2017)	Nièvre
Mâcon	33,638 (2017)	Saône-et-Loire
Montbeliard	25,395 (2017)	Doubs
Sens	25,935 (2017)	Yonne
Dole	23,708 (2017)	law

politics

Political structure

The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region is divided into eight 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)
21st		Côte-d'Or	Dijon	FR-21	3	19th	23	698	533.819	8,763	61
25th		Doubs	Besançon	FR-25	3	18th	19th	573	539.067	5,234	103
39		law	Lons-le-Saunier	FR-39	3	17th	17th	494	260.188	4,999	52
58		Nièvre	Nevers	FR-58	4th	13	17th	309	207.182	6,817	30th
70		Haute-Saône	Vesoul	FR-70	2	19th	17th	539	236,659	5,360	44
71		Saône-et-Loire	Mâcon	FR-71	5	20th	29	565	553,595	8,574	65
89		Yonne	Auxerre	FR-89	3	16	21st	423	338.291	7,433	46
90		Territoire de Belfort	Belfort	FR-90	1	3	9	101	142,622	610	234
total					24	120	152	3,702	2,811,423	47,790	59

Arrondissements in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Cantons in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Associations of municipalities in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Regional council

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

• List Marie-Guite Dufay (Union of the Left from PS , PRG , EELV and FG ): 34.68% = 402,948 votes, 51 seats
• List François Sauvadet (Union de la Droite from LR , UDI and MoDem ): 32.89% = 382,188 votes, 25 seats
• Sophie Montel list ( FN ): 32.44% = 376,911 votes, 24 seats

See also : List of Presidents of French Regional Councils

economy

Bourgogne is particularly known for its viticulture. Over 200 million bottles are filled annually in the AOC wine cellars ( Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée ) south of Dijon. The vineyards and picturesque villages of the Plateau bourguignon ( Côte de Beaune , Côte challonaise , Côte de Nuits ) even attract tourists from Japan and the United States of America.

Cattle breeding and the meat industry are very present further west : the white Charolais cattle graze here; the meat tested by the surrounding laboratories is world-class. In general, the Bourgogne with its oak and pine forests is a kind of green lung for France and, as the source of the Yonne, it supplies water for the Paris basin ( Bassin parisien ). The factories of the steel industry in Le Creusot , for example, had to close their doors in the past few decades; Of its importance as an industrial region, almost all that remains is the good TGV connection, which connects the région-passoire (transit region), which is considered part of the diagonale du vide (the empty diagonal of France), with Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

The Franche-Comté region is known as “Siberia of France” (sometimes −20 to −40 degrees in winter) and is characterized by poor infrastructure in the village-like Jura basin. Only cheese production thrives here (AOC cheese: Comté & Morbier).

Only in the south and in the north (Jura / Oyonnaux and Montbéliard / Belfort / Sochaux ) are large world-class companies located: the French car manufacturer Peugeot produces near Montbéliard and Sochaux ; In Belfort, the railway and TGV supplier Alstom is boosting the economy and in the southern Jura, not far from Oyonnaux, there is the plastics-vallée - the location of the largest plastic processing companies in Europe, the French equivalent of Silicon Valley . The two economic centers benefit from the Rhine-Rhône connection, the proximity to Lyon , Alsace and Switzerland ( Basel ). Other economic centers are the regional capitals Dijon and Besançon.

However, in terms of population development, this is just as much a shortcoming as the weak infrastructure, because all the surrounding regions and cities of France are overtaking the tranquil Franche-Comté with the small Besançon.

history

See also : Burgundian history

The region, newly created in 2016, unites the historic Burgundian heartland, which was already divided into two political units in the Middle Ages: the Duchy of Burgundy , which made up a large part of the later region of Bourgogne , and the Free County of Burgundy (French Franche Comté de Bourgogne ), which largely coincides with the later Franche-Comté region coincided.

The name was initially formed provisionally from the alphabetical order of the merged regions and was finally confirmed by the Conseil d'État on October 1, 2016, following a resolution by the regional council .

The Nièvre department is roughly the same size as the historical Nivernais . The Territoire de Belfort belonged to the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine after the Franco-German War (1870-71) to Alsace after and was the First World War not with the Haut-Rhin department reunited, but to a dedicated department that is no longer the Alsace is counted. The northern part of the Dèpartemants Yonne was historically part of the Champagne .

Map of the region and its departments as well as the historical provinces of France that existed on their territory at the time of the French Revolution.

Duchy of Burgundy

Free County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté)

Nivernais

Champagne

Alsace

Orléanais

Württemberg-Mömpelgard (Montbéliard)

Île de France

Others

Web links

Commons : Bourgogne-Franche-Comté  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Résultats régionales 2015 - Bourgogne, Franche-Comté on linternaute.com, accessed on January 6, 2016.
2. ↑ La carte des régions en 2015 on vie-publique.fr, accessed on May 9, 2015.
3. ↑ Mathilde SIRAUD: Occitanie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine ...: discordes autour des nouveaux noms de régions In: LeFigaro.fr , June 27, 2016th