Alpes-Maritimes

Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes
	Depairtment
	Banner Coat airms
	Location o Alpes-Maritimes in Fraunce
	Coordinates: 43°50′N 7°10′E / 43.833°N 7.167°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Prefectur	Nice
Subprefecturs	Grasse
Govrenment
• Preses o the General Cooncil	Éric Ciotti (UMP)
Area
• Total	4299 km2 (1,660 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	1,082,465
• Rank	18t
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment number	06
Arrondissements	2
Cantons	52
Communes	163
	^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2

Alpes-Maritimes (French pronunciation: [alp.ma.ʁi.tim]; Occitan: Aups Maritims) is a depairtment in the extreme sootheast corner o Fraunce.

Sign walcomin visitors tae Alpes-Maritimes.

Geography

Owerview

Belvédère in the Vesubie valley, ane o the mony veelages perché in the Alpes-Maritime.

The depairtment is surroondit bi the French depairtments o Var, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Italy an the principality o Monaco tae the east, an the Mediterranean tae the sooth.

Alpes-Maritimes includes the famous French Riviera coastline on the Mediterranean Sea wi the important touns an ceeties o Cannes, Nice, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, an Antibes.

The aurie is muntainous richt doun tae the coast. This soothren aurie o the Alps is termit the Maritime Alps.

Rivers include the follaein:

Subdiveesion

Depairtment map showin its diveesion intae the 2 arrondissements an the location o some o its principal ceeties an touns.

Alpes-Maritimes is dividit intae 2 arrondissements (Grasse an Nice), 52 cantons an 163 municipalities (communes).

In 2002 they wur creatit 14 intercommunalities (Intercommunalité).^[1] 4 o them are metropolitan: 3 agglomeration communities (Pôle Azur Provence,^[2] Riviera Française^[3] an Sophia Antipolis^[4]) an 1 urban community (Nice-Côte d'Azur^[5]). The ither 10 are Communauté de communes: Vallée de l'Estéron, Monts d'Azur, Pays des Paillons, Coteaux d'Azur, Vallées d'Azur, Tinée, Cians Var, Stations du Mercantour, Terres de Siagne and Vésubie Mercantour.

Below it is shown a leet o maist populatit places o the depairtment:

Nice (348,721)
Antibes (76,778)
Cannes (71,790)
Grasse (51,294)
Cagnes-sur-Mer (49,551)
Le Cannet (42,596)
Vallauris (30,839)
Saint-Laurent-du-Var (30,605)
Menton (29,129)
Mandelieu-la-Napoule (20,889)
Mougins (20,250)
Vence (19,659)

References

↑ (in French) See an aw: fr:Intercommunalités des Alpes-Maritimes
↑ (in French) Pôle Azur Provence offeecial steid Archived 2011-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
↑ (in French) Riviera Française offeecial site
↑ (in French) Sophia Antipolis offeecial site Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
↑ (in French) Nice-Côte d'Azur offeecial site

Freemit airtins

Alpes-Maritimes at Curlie
(in French) Prefectur wabsteid
(in French) General cooncil wabsteid
(in French) French Riviera directory Archived 2011-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
(in Inglis) Musical traditions in the Alpes-Maritimes department
(in Inglis) About.com Archived 2015-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

[1] (in French) See an aw: fr:Intercommunalités des Alpes-Maritimes

[2] (in French) Pôle Azur Provence offeecial steid Archived 2011-02-08 at the Wayback Machine

[3] (in French) Riviera Française offeecial site

[4] (in French) Sophia Antipolis offeecial site Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine

[5] (in French) Nice-Côte d'Azur offeecial site

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