PROVENCE-ALPES-CôTE D'AZUR

'Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur' (PACA) is one of the 26 regions of France.
It is made up of:

★ the former French province of Provence

★ the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin

★ the former Sardinian-Piedmontese county of Nice, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera, and in French as the ''Côte d'Azur''

★ the southeastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps.
It encompasses six departments in south-eastern France, bounded to the east by the Italian border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and by the principality of Monaco, to the north by Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Languedoc-Roussillon, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.
The region logo displays the coat of arms created in the 1990s and which combines the coats of arms of the old provinces making up Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

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Major communities

External links

Major communities

The largest cities in the region are Marseille, Nice, Toulon, and Aix-en-Provence, each with a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants as of the 1999 census.

★ Aix-en-Provence

★ Antibes (includes Juan-les-Pins)

★ Arles

★ Aubagne

★ Avignon

★ Cagnes-sur-Mer

★ Cannes

★ Fréjus

★ Grasse

★ Hyères

★ La Seyne-sur-Mer

★ Le Cannet

★ Marseille

★ Martigues

★ Nice

★ Toulon
Well-known but smaller communities include the many cities and towns along the French Riviera.

External links

★ Conseil régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Official website

★ Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Pictures, Maps and Information.