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Arrondissement of Nice. The arrondissement of Nice is an arrondissement of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 101 communes. [2] Its population is 522,637 (2016), and its area is 3,067.4 km 2 (1,184.3 sq mi). [3]
Nice was probably founded around 350 BC by colonists from the Greek city of Phocaea in western Anatolia. It was given the name of Níkaia ( Νίκαια) in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (people from the northwest of Italy, probably the Vediantii kingdom); Nike ( Νίκη) was the Greek goddess of victory.
- 71.92 km² (27.77 sq mi)
- Alpes-Maritimes
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Arrondissement of Nice, (prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department: Nice) with 101 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 522,637 in 2016. History. In 1800 the arrondissements of Nice, Monaco and Puget-Théniers were established. In 1805 the arrondissement of Sanremo was created, and the arrondissement of Monaco was disbanded.
L' arrondissement de Nice est une division administrative française, située dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes et la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur . Les limites de l'arrondissement de Nice correspondent à peu près aux limites de l'ancien comté de Nice avant l’ annexion par la France en 1860 depuis la suppression au profit de ...
t. e. In France, a municipal arrondissement ( French: arrondissement municipal [aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃ mynisipal]) is a subdivision of the commune, and is used in the country's three largest cities: Paris, Lyon and Marseille. It functions as an even lower administrative division, with its own mayor.
06088 /. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Nice (pronounced "neece") is a city in southern France on the Mediterranean coast. It is a commune in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes. It has over 345,000 people living in the city as of 2012 (1,000,000 ...
