Midi-Pyrénées

Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées
	Region o Fraunce
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Kintra	Fraunce
Prefectur	Toulouse
Departments	8 Ariège; Aveyron; Haute-Garonne; Gers; Lot; Hautes-Pyrénées; Tarn; Tarn-et-Garonne;
Govrenment
• Preses	Martin Malvy (PS)
Area
• Total	45348 km2 (17,509 sq mi)
Population (2009-01-01)
• Total	2,865,000
• Density	63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	FR-N
GDP (2006)	Rankit {{{GDP_rank}}}
Tot	€73 billion (US${{{GDP_US$}}} bn)
Per capita	€26,200 (US${{{GDP_per_capita_US$}}})
NUTS Region	FR6
Website	midipyrenees.fr

Midi-Pyrénées (French: [midi piʁene] ( listen); Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus) is the laorgest region in metropolitan Fraunce bi land aurie, muckler than the Netherlands or Denmark.

Midi-Pyrénées haes nae historical or geographical unity. It is ane o the regions o Fraunce creatit airtificially in the late 20t century tae serve as a hinterland an zone o influence for its caipital, Toulouse, ane o a haundful o so-cried "balancin metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).^[2] Anither example o this is the region o Rhône-Alpes which wis creatit as the region for Lyon.

The name chosen for the new region wis decidit bi the French central govrenment athoot reference tae the historical provinces (ower mony o them inside the region) an based purely on geography: Midi (i.e. "soothren Fraunce") - Pyrénées (Pyrénées muntains that serve as the region's soothren bundary). The French adjective an name o the inhabitants o the region is: Midi-Pyrénéen.

Major communities

Notes

↑ "GDP per inhabitant in 2006 ranged from 25% of the EU27 average in Nord-Est in Romania to 336% in Inner London" (PDF). Eurostat.
↑ In the 1960s, aicht lairge regional ceeties o Fraunce (Toulouse, Lille, Nancy, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, an Marseille) wur made "balancin metropolises", receivin special feenancial an technical help frae the French govrenment in order tae coonterbalance the excessive weight o Paris inside Fraunce.

Freemit airtins

(in French) Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
Toulouse Tourist Office

Coordinates: 43°30′N 1°20′E / 43.500°N 1.333°E / 43.500; 1.333

[eurostat-1] "GDP per inhabitant in 2006 ranged from 25% of the EU27 average in Nord-Est in Romania to 336% in Inner London" (PDF). Eurostat.

[2] In the 1960s, aicht lairge regional ceeties o Fraunce (Toulouse, Lille, Nancy, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, an Marseille) wur made "balancin metropolises", receivin special feenancial an technical help frae the French govrenment in order tae coonterbalance the excessive weight o Paris inside Fraunce.

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