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New Aquitaine region | |||
Capital | Bordeaux | ||
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Residents | 5.979.778 (2018) | ||
surface | 84,061 km² | ||
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New Aquitaine (French Nouvelle-Aquitaine) is one of the 13 administrative regions in metropolitan France. Located in the south-west of France, it was replaced by the regions of the time in 2016 Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes composed. New Aquitaine borders the regions (clockwise, starting in the north) Pays de la Loire, Center-Val de Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the east Occitania in the southeast as well Spain (Province Navarre). In the west, New Aquitaine has a long stretch of coast to the Atlantic Ocean.
Regions
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Departments in New Aquitaine
- Aquitaine, consisting of the departments Dordogne, Gironde, Country, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrénées-Atlantiques, largest city is Bordeaux.
- Limousin, consisting of the departments Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne, largest city is Limoges.
- Poitou-Charentes, consisting of the departments Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, largest city is Poitiers.