Alpes-Maritimes

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

Alpes-Maritimes
Depairtment
Banner Coat airms
Location o Alpes-Maritimes in Fraunce
Coordinates: 43°50′N 7°10′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

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:

Var Aigue Blanche Barlatte Basséra Bendola Bévéra Borrigo Bourdous Bouyon Brague

Cagne Carei Chalvagne Cians Cianavelle Coulomp Estéron Fontanalba Gorbio Gordolasque

Guercha Lévensa Loup Lubiane Maglia Magnan Malvan Mayola Minière Paillon

Raton Réfréi Rioulan Roudoule Roya Siagne Tinée Valmasque Vésubie Vionène

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). 4 o them are metropolitan: 3 agglomeration communities (Pôle Azur Provence, Riviera Française an Sophia Antipolis) an 1 urban community (Nice-Côte d'Azur). 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)

See also

• Communes o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment
• Cantons o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment
• Arrondissements o the Alpes-Maritimes depairtment

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