Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) is one of the régions of France. It covers an area of
31,400 km² , and contains the departments
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
Alpes-Maritimes,
Bouches-du-Rhône,
Hautes-Alpes,
Var and
Vaucluse.
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 départements in south-eastern France, bounded to the east by the Italian border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea to the north by Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Languedoc-Roussillon, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.
Notable cities and places in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur include: Aix-en-Provence, Antibes, Arles, Avignon, Les Baux de Provenc, Cannes, Cassi, Digne-les-Bains, Grasse , Juan-les-Pins , Marseille, Nic, Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saint-Tropez.
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