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A map of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur administrative region The historical province of Provence (orange) within the contemporary region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France. Provence [a] is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west ...
Aix-en-Provence, [a] or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille.A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
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 ...
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's main cities are Digne-les-Bains , Manosque, Sisteron, Barcelonnette, Castellane and Forcalquier. Inhabitants are called the Bas-Alpins (masculine) or Bas-Alpines (feminine) in reference to the department's former name, Basses-Alpes, which was in use until 1970. Although the prefecture is Digne-les-Bains, the largest ...
Date: 13 June 2009: Source: derivative work from File:France map Lambert-93 topographic with regions-blank.svg by Eric Gaba () . Others symbols from File:Maps template-fr.svg; Note : The entire relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
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Var (French: ⓘ, Occitan:) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is bordered on the east by the Alpes-Maritimes department; to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône; to the north of the river Verdon by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department; and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population ...
Map of the Luberon and its surroundings View of vineyards in the Luberon massif from the village of Ménerbes, Vaucluse. The Luberon (French pronunciation: [lyb(ə)ʁɔ̃] or ; Provençal: Leberon (classical norm) or Leberoun (Mistralian norm)) is a massif in central Provence in Southern France, part of the French Prealps.