Pays de la Loire
The Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pɛ.i də la lwaʁ]; Scots: Loire Lands) are ane o the 27 regions o Fraunce. It is ane o the regions creatit in the late 20t century tae serve as a zone o influence for its caipital, Nantes, ane o a haundful so-cried "balancin metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre)¹. Ither examples o "airtificially created" regions include Rhône-Alpes, which wis creatit as the region for Lyon, an Midi-Pyrénées, which wis creatit as the region for Toulouse.
Pays de la Loire | |
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Kintra | Fraunce |
Prefectur | Nantes |
Departments | |
Govrenment | |
• Preses | Jacques Auxiette (PS) |
Area | |
• Total | 32082 km2 (12,387 sq mi) |
Population (2009-01-01) | |
• Total | 3,553,353 |
• Density | 110/km2 (290/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
NUTS Region | FR5 |
Website | paysdelaloire.fr |
Geography
eeditPays de la Loire is made up o the follaein historical provinces:
- a pairt o Breetany, wi its auld caipital Nantes contained athin the Loire-Atlantique depairtment. This is anerlie 20% o Breetany. The ither 80% o Breetany mak up the region o Breetany
- Anjou: is largely contained athin the Maine-et-Loire depairtment. The whole o the umwhile province o Anjou is contained inside Pays de la Loire.
- Maine: is nou dividit atween the Mayenne an Sarthe depairtments. The whole o the umwhile province o Maine is contained inside Pays de la Loire.
- a pairt o Poitou: is contained athin the Vendée depairtment. Maist o the auld province o Poitou is inside the Poitou-Charentes region.
- a pairt o Perche: is athin the northeast o Sarthe depairtment. The rest o Perche is inside the Basse-Normandie an Centre regions.
- a sma pairt o Touraine: sootheast o Maine-et-Loire depairtment. Maist o the umwhile province o Touraine is inside the Centre region.
Consequently, the name o the region, chosen bi the French central govrenment, wis no based on history, but purely on geographical references: Pays (i.e. "lands") de la Loire (i.e. "o the Loire River"). Housomeivver, the majority o the famous châteaux o the Loire Valley are locatit in the Centre region, an no inside Pays de la Loire, despite the confusin name. The Pays de la Loire present mony great monuments as the castles o Angers, Laval, Mayenne an the Nantes "Château des Ducs de Bretagne", the Royal Fontevraud Abbey (the widest monastic ensemble in Europe), the auld ceety o Le Mans, an an aw mony natural pairks such as the Brière an the Marsh o Poitou.
Demography
eeditEvolution o the population leetit bi depairtments:
Year | Population o the depairtments | |||||
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Loire-Atlantique depairtment | Maine-et-Loire depairtment | Mayenne depairtment | Sarthe depairtment | Vendée depairtment | Total Pays de la Loire | |
1801 | 369,305 | 375,544 | 305,654 | 388,143 | 243,426 | 1,682,072 |
1851 | 535,664 | 516,197 | 374,566 | 473,071 | 383,734 | 2,283,232 |
1901 | 664,971 | 515,431 | 313,103 | 422,699 | 441,311 | 2,357,515 |
1921 | 649,691 | 475,485 | 397,292 | 2,174,150 | ||
1936 | 659,428 | 478,404 | 251,348 | 388,519 | 389,211 | 2,166,910 |
1946 | 665,064 | 393,787 | 2,224,163 | |||
1954 | 733,575 | 395,641 | 2,320,177 | |||
1962 | 803,372 | 535,122 | 250,030 | 443,019 | 408,928 | 2,440,471 |
1968 | 861,452 | 585,563 | 252,762 | 461,839 | 421,250 | 2,582,866 |
1975 | 934,499 | 629,849 | 261,789 | 490,385 | 450,641 | 2,767,163 |
1982 | 995,498 | 675,321 | 271,784 | 504,768 | 483,027 | 2,930,398 |
1990 | 1,050,539 | 704,668 | 277,748 | 513,280 | 508,962 | 3,055,197 |
2005 | 1,208,761 | 754,997 | 297,854 | 551,971 | 587,162 | 3,400,745 |
Notes
eedit¹ In the 1960s, aicht lairge regional ceeties o Fraunce (Lille, Nancy, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse) wur made "balancin metropolises", receivin special financial an technical help frae the French govrenment in order tae coonterbalance the excessive weight o Paris inside Fraunce.
See an aw
eeditFreemit airtins
eeditWikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Pays de la Loire. |
- Offeecial Pays de la Loire Wabsteid
- Pays de la Loire Tourism Wabsteid Archived 2018-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Western France Tourist Board
- Nantes Tourist Office Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Pays de la Loire tourism guide
- Le Mans Tourist Office
Coordinates: 47°28′N 0°50′W / 47.467°N 0.833°W
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