Hautes-Pyrénées

French depairtment

Hautes-Pyrénées (French pronunciation: ​[ot pi.ʁe.ne]) (Gascon: Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus; Spaingie: Altos Pirineos) is a depairtment in soothwastren Fraunce.

Hautes-Pyrénées
Prefectur biggin o the Hautes-Pyrénées depairtment, in Tarbes
Prefectur biggin o the Hautes-Pyrénées depairtment, in Tarbes
Coat of airms o Hautes-Pyrénées
Coat airms
Location o Hautes-Pyrénées in Fraunce
Location o Hautes-Pyrénées in Fraunce
Coordinates: 43°12′N 0°8′E / 43.200°N 0.133°E / 43.200; 0.133Coordinates: 43°12′N 0°8′E / 43.200°N 0.133°E / 43.200; 0.133
KintraFraunce
RegionMidi-Pyrénées
PrefecturTarbes
SubprefectursArgelès-Gazost
Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Govrenment
 • Preses o the General CooncilMichel Pelieu
Area
 • Total4464 km2 (1,724 sq mi)
Population
 (2009)
 • Total228,594
 • Rank84t
 • Density51/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment nummer65
Arrondissements3
Cantons17
Communes474
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lochs, ponds, an glaciers lairger nor 1 km2