Pyrénées-Atlantiques
French depairtment
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French pronunciation: [pi.ʁe.ne.a.tlɑ̃.tik]; Gascon: Pirenèus-Atlantics; Basque: Pirinio-Atlantiarrak or [Pirinio-Atlantikoak] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); Spaingie: Pirineos Atlánticos) is a depairtment in the soothwast o Fraunce which taks its name frae the Pyrenees muntains an the Atlantic Ocean.
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
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 Coat airms | |
 Location o Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Fraunce | |
| Coordinates: 43°15′N 00°50′E / 43.250°N 0.833°E | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | New Aquitaine |
| Prefectur | Pau |
| Subprefectures | Bayonne Oloron-Sainte-Marie |
| Govrenment | |
| • Preses o the General Cooncil | Georges Labazée |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7645 km2 (2,952 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 647,420 |
| • Rank | 37t |
| • Density | 85/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Depairtment nummer | 64 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 52 |
| Communes | 547 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Heraldry
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