Pyrénées-Orientales (Department, France)

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Keywords: pyrenees-orientales | languedoc-roussillon | roussillon | catalonia |
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by Jorge Candeias

Flag of the department

• Administrative data
• Flag of the department

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)
• Pyrénées-Orientales (Department, France): Municipal flags
  • Villelongue-dels-Monts (Villalonga-dels-Monts)
• Pyrénées-Orientales (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Administrative data

Code: 66
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Traditional provinces: Roussillon, Languedoc
Bordering departments: Ariège, Aude
Bordering countries: Andorra, Spain (Autonomous Community of Catalonia [province of Girona])

Area: 4,116 km² (excluding the Spanish enclave of Llivia)
Population (1995): 376,200 inhabitants

Préfecture: Perpignan
Sous-préfectures: Céret, Prades
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 34 cantons, 475 communes.

The department is named ("Upper-Pyrénées") after the Pyrénées mountains.

Flag of the department

The department uses the flag of the traditional province of Roussillon, which is similar to the flag of Catalonia.

Ivan Sache, 4 March 2005