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Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a region of transit between the Paris Basin (including Île-de-France) and the Iberian Peninsula, but also between the Rhône Valley and the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions (noon Toulouse).
Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Occitan: Nòva Aquitània) is one of the administrative regions of France. Its capital is Bordeaux. [2] By land area, it is the largest region of France. It is in the southwest of France formed in 2014 by three old regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the largest of France’s 13 metropolitan regions, which was created in 2016 by the union of Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes, and Limousin. It is bounded by the regions of Pays de la Loire, Centre, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, and Occitanie and by Spain and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Since 1 January 2016 it has been part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. [2] It is situated in the southwest corner of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain; for most of its written history Bordeaux has been a vital port and administrative centre.
Fourth city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (after Bordeaux, Limoges and Poitiers), Pau is the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the chief town of four cantons: [23] Canton of Pau-1, formed from part of Pau. Canton of Pau-2, formed from part of Pau and the commune of Idron.
A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais " (masculine) or "Bordelaises " (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
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Gironde is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne and Charente-Maritime and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. With an area of 10,000 km 2, Gironde is the largest department in metropolitan France, and the second-largest in entire France.
