Pyrénées-Orientales
French depairtment in the region o Occitanie
Pyrénées-Orientales (French pronunciation: [piʁene(z)ɔʁjɑ̃tal]; Catalan: Pirineus Orientals; Occitan: Pirenèus Orientals, [piɾeˈnɛwz uɾjenˈtals]; Scots: Eastren Pyrenees) are a depairtment o soothren Fraunce adjacent tae the northren Spaingie frontier an the Mediterranean Sea.
Pyrénées-Orientales | |
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 Prefectur biggin o the Pyrénées-Orientales depairtment, in Perpignan | |
 Coat airms | |
 Location o Pyrénées-Orientales in Fraunce | |
| Coordinates: 42°30′N 2°45′E / 42.500°N 2.750°ECoordinates: 42°30′N 2°45′E / 42.500°N 2.750°E | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Prefectur | Perpignan |
| Subprefecturs | Céret Prades |
| Govrenment | |
| • Preses o the General Cooncil | Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4116 km2 (1,589 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 437,157 |
| • Rank | 57t |
| • Density | 110/km2 (280/sq mi) |
| Minority leids: Catalan an Occitan | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department nummer | 66 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 17 |
| Communes | 226 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lochs, ponds, an glaciers lairger nor 1 km2 | |