Poitou-Charentes

Poitou-Charentes
Flag of Poitou-Charentes
Coat of arms of Poitou-Charentes
Country France
Dissolved2016-01-01
PrefecturePoitiers
Departments
Government
 • PresidentJean-François Macaire (PS)
Area
 • Total25,809 km2 (9,965 sq mi)
Population
 (2007-01-01)
 • Total1,722,000
 • Density67/km2 (170/sq mi)
GDP
 • Total€54.764 billion
 • Per capita€30,300
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeFR-T
NUTS RegionFR5
Websitepoitou-charentes.fr

Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation: [pwatu ʃaʁɑ̃t] ; Occitan: Peitau-Charantas; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Poetou-Chérentes) was an administrative region on the southwest coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.[2] It comprised four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois, Aunis, Saintonge and Poitou.

Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan.

Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on January 1, 2016.

  1. ^ "EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. ^ Loi n° 2015-29 du 16 janvier 2015 relative à la délimitation des régions, aux élections régionales et départementales et modifiant le calendrier électoral (in French)