Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
prefecture	Digne-les-Bains
Sub-prefecture (s)	Barcelonnette Castellane Forcalquier
Residents	163,915 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	24 inhabitants per km²
surface	6,925.22 km²
Arrondissements	4th
Community associations	12
Cantons	15th
Communities	198
President of the Department Council	René Massette ( PS )
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-04
Location of the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Cote

The citadel of Sisteron

The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department [ ˌalpdəotpʀɔvɑs ] is the French department with the atomic number 04. It is in the southeast of the country in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .

geography

The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department borders on the Alpes-Maritimes , Var , Vaucluse , Drôme and Hautes-Alpes departments as well as Italy .

coat of arms

Description: in blue and silver by three peaks in the tip section divided; above a golden lily , above which a red three-legged tournament collar hovers.

history

The department was formed on March 4, 1790 from part of Provence .

Until 1970 the department was called Basses-Alpes , in German as Niederalpen or Nieder-Alpen .

politics

The first round of the 2017 French presidential election took place on April 23, 2017 . The turnout in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department was 80.79%. A total of 102,257 eligible voters cast their votes . Of the 99,713 valid votes, 24,463 elected the then chairman of the right-wing populist Front National , Marine Le Pen . 22,448 votes were cast for the presidential candidate of the La France insoumise party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon . The former Minister of Economic Affairs under President François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron , received 19,960 votes . François Fillon , who was Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 , received 18,442 votes. 4983 votes received the French politician of the Socialist Party , Benoit Hamon . 4,860 voters elected the conservative-Gaullist politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan . The politician Jean Lassalle received 1721 votes. The anti-capitalist politician and trade unionist Philippe Poutou received 1,178 votes . The President of the  Union Populaire Républicaine , François Asselineau , received 932 votes. Nathalie Arthaud , spokeswoman for the Trotskyist French left party Lutte Ouvrière , received 521 votes. The politician Jacques Cheminade received 205 votes.

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Barcelonnette	1	14th	7,864	1,027.73	8th	041
Castellane	2	41	11,472	1,718.06	7th	042
Digne-les-Bains	8th	46	47,620	1,574.02	30th	043
Forcalquier	11	97	96,959	2,605.41	37	044
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department	15th	198	163.915	6,925.22	24	04

See also:

• List of communes in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
• List of cantons in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

literature

• Ralf Nestmeyer : Haute-Provence. Michael-Müller-Verlag, Erlangen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89953-687-4 .

Web links

Commons : Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• General Council of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Department (French)
• Prefecture of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lower Alps . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 14, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 629. - also already: Herders Conversations-Lexikon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1856, Volume 4, p. 335
2. ↑ Results - 1st ballot. Ministry of Interior of France, 23 April 2017, accessed 23 April 2017 (French). 

Coordinates: 44 ° 6 '  N , 6 ° 14'  E