Drôme

Drôme (French pronunciation: ​[dʁom]; Droma in Occitan, Drôma in Arpitan) is a depairtment in sootheastren Fraunce namit efter the Drôme River.

Drôme
Depairtment
Coat airms
Location o Drôme in Fraunce
Coordinates: 44°45′N 05°10′E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Prefectur	Valence
Subprefecturs	Die Nyons
Govrenment
• Preses o the General Cooncil	Patrick Labaune (The Republicans)
Area
• Total	6530 km2 (2,520 sq mi)
Population  (2007)
• Total	473,427
• Rank	53rd
• Density	73/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment number	26
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	36
Communes	369
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuars, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2

History

St Vallier in Drôme, wis the birthplace o ane o Fraunce's maist famous courtesans, the noble-born Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), lang-term mistress o Keeng Henri II (1547-1559).

The French Naitional Constituent Assembly set up Drôme as ane o the oreeginal 83 depairtments o Fraunce on 4 Mairch 1790, durin the French Revolution. The territory formit pairt o the umwhile French province o Dauphiné.

Geografie

Drôme lees athin the region o Rhône-Alpes an is surroondit bi the depairtments o Ardèche, Isère, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence an Vaucluse.

The boondaries o the depairtment hae chyngit several times wi the incorporation o the Comtat Venaissin in 1792 an the creation o the depairtment o Vaucluse in 1793. Drôme surroonds an enclave o the depairtment o Vaucluse, the Canton o Valréas (Enclave des Papes).

Climate

Main airticle: Climate o the Drôme depairtment

Economy

Main airticle: Economy o the Drôme depairtment

Politics

The Preses o the General Cooncil is Didier Guillaume o the Socialist Pairty.

Pairty		seats
•	Socialist Pairty	18
	Union for a Popular Muivement	7
•	Miscellaneous Left	4
	Miscellaneous Richt	3
	MoDem	1
•	The Greens	1
•	Left Radical Pairty	1
•	French Communist Pairty	1

Demografics

The indwallers o the depairtment are cried Drômois.

Main ceeties

(1999 figure)

• Valence: 66,568
• Romans-sur-Isère: 33,665
• Montélimar: 32,896
• Nyons: 6,731

Tourism

Sport activities in Drôme include:

• in winter: skiin, cross-kintra skiin, snaw-shoein
• in simmer: excursions, muntain bikin in the muntainous aurie

The Drôme River is a great place tae practice canoëin an kayakin an aw. In the ware the watter flow even allous you tae practice raftin. The Saoü Forest is kent for his climbin paths.

See an aw

• Cantons o the Drôme depairtment
• Communes o the Drôme depairtment
• Arrondissements o the Drôme depairtment

Freemit airtins

• (in French) Prefecture website Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
• (in French) General Council website