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Avignon has 7,000 businesses, 1,550 associations, 1,764 shops, and 1,305 service providers. [37] The urban area has one of the largest catchment areas in Europe with more than 300,000 square metres of retail space and 469 m 2 per thousand population against 270 on average in France. [38]
The arrondissement of Avignon is an arrondissement of France in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 16 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 210,535 (2021), and its area is 336.9 km 2 (130.1 sq mi).
Map of metropolitan France. As of January 2019, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000. [1]
It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019. [2] The department's prefecture is Avignon. It is named after a spring, the Fontaine de Vaucluse, one of the largest karst springs in the world. The name Vaucluse itself derives from the Latin Vallis Clausa ("closed valley") as the valley ends in a cliff face from which the spring emanates.
It is located in the Vaucluse and the Gard departments, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions, southern France. It was created in December 2000. [1] Its area is 302.6 km 2. Its population was 197,102 in 2022, of which 91,729 in Avignon proper. [2] [3]
The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former ...
Parc des Sports (Avignon) (stadium) opens. Population: 90,786. [47] 1979 - Transports en Commun de la Région d'Avignon (transit entity) in operation. 1982 - Avignon becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. 1984 Avignon Film Festival begins. Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse created. [83]
The canton of Avignon-1 is an administrative division of the Vaucluse department, in southeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.