Languedoc-Roussillon
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| Region of France | |||
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 France
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| Prefecture | Montpellier | ||
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| Government | |||
| • President | Damien Alary (DVG) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 27,376 km2 (10,570 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2012-01-01) | |||
| • Total | 2,700,266 | ||
| • Density | 99/km2 (260/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | FR-K | ||
| GDP (2012) | Ranked 10th | ||
| Total | €63.9 billion (US$82.2 bn) | ||
| Per capita | €23,566 (US$30,311) | ||
| NUTS Region | FR8 | ||
| Website | laregion.fr | ||
Languedoc-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡdɔk ʁusijɔ̃]; Occitan: Lengadòc-Rosselhon; Catalan: Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Occitanie. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side. It is the southernmost region of mainland France.
The name of the province of Languedoc originates from the language spoken in southern France, langue d'oc, also known as Occitan, and Roussillon, a historic province in the South of present-day Languedoc-Roussillon.
The region is made up of the following historical provinces:
Llívia is a town of Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, that forms a Spanish exclave surrounded by French territory (department of Pyrénées-Orientales).
At the regional elections in March 2004, the socialist mayor of Montpellier Georges Frêche, defeated its center-right president. Since then, Georges Frêche has embarked on a complete overhaul of the region and its institutions. The flag of the region, which displayed the cross of Languedoc as well as the Flag of Roussillon (the "Senyera"), was changed for a new flag with no reference to the old provinces, except in terms of the colors (red and yellow), which are the colors of both Languedoc and all the territories from the former Crown of Aragon.
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