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Biarritz (UK: / b ɪəˈr ɪ t s, ... Analysis of stones from the Middle Paleolithic shows that the ... people of high status gathered in Biarritz. The population ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
A significant majority of the population of the Basque country live inside the Basque Autonomous Community (about 2,100,000, or 70% of the population) while about 600,000 live in Navarre (20% of the population) and about 300,000 (roughly 10%) in Northern Basque Country.
The communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque (Basque: Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa, "agglomeration community of the Basque Country"), [1] is the agglomeration community (federation of communes), centred on the cities of Bayonne and Biarritz. Also referred to as the French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Basque: Iparralde (lit.
On the coast, where the largest cities are located, the predominant language is French, for example, in the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz agglomeration, Basque is spoken by 10% of the population. However, in the rural interior of the Northern Basque Country, Basque is the predominant language, spoken by the majority of the population. [37]
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( French pronunciation: [pi.ʁe.nez‿at.lɑ̃.tik] ⓘ ; Gascon Occitan : Pirenèus Atlantics ; Basque : Pirinio Atlantikoak ) is a department located in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest corner of ...
The slow growth of France's population in the 19th century was reflected in the country's very low emigration rate. The French population only grew by 8.6% between 1871 and 1911, while Germany's grew by 60% and Britain's by 54%. [22] French concerns about the country's slow population growth began after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War ...
Pau benefits from its central location in the region of the Pays de l'Adour and its location between two major areas of population: Bayonne/Anglet/Biarritz (160,000 inhabitants) and the area of Tarbes/Lourdes (110,000 inhabitants) and secondary, more diffuse, areas: South of Landes/Dax (90,000 inhabitants) and the areas of Auch (40,000 ...