Languedoc-Roussillon
Lengadòc-Rosselhon (Occitan) | |
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Country | France |
Dissolved | 2016-01-01 |
Prefecture | Montpellier |
Departments | 5
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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) |
GDP | |
• Total | €85.916 billion (2022) |
• Per capita | €30,400 (2022) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 code | FR-K |
NUTS Region | FR8 |
Website | laregion.fr |
Languedoc-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃] ; Occitan: Lengadòc-Rosselhon [ˌleŋɡɔˈðɔk ruseˈʎu]; Catalan: Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania.[2] It comprised five departments, and bordered the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées towards the north, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea towards the south. It was the southernmost region of mainland France.