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Landes is a department (administrative region) located in southwestern France, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is notable for its extensive forests, coastal areas along the Atlantic Ocean, and its role as part of France's territorial organization.
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- Instance of
- department of France
- Named after
- heath
- Official name
- Landes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Aquitaine
- Capital
- Mont-de-Marsan
- Population
- 433570
- Area
- 9243
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Head of government
- Henri Emmanuelli
- Shares border with
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Official website
- www.landes.fr
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- Pref Landes MDM.JPG
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- inception
- 1790-03-04
- Commons category
- Landes (department)
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Landes (department)
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- Category:Landes (department)
- Commons gallery
- Landes
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Landes
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Landes
- different from
- Landes de Gascogne
- annual number of weddings
- 1378
- social media followers
- 6770
- P8168
- Simon Newcomb
- native label
- Lanas
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Encyclopedic overview
Landes ( French pronunciation: [lɑ̃d] ; Gascon and Occitan: Lanas [ˈlanəs]; Basque: Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It also borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-east, and Gironde to the north. Located on the Atlantic coast, it had a population of 433,570 as of 2023. Its prefecture is Mont-de-Marsan.
The department is the second-largest department in France and it covers the Forest of Landes. The southwestern part of the department is part of the wider conurbation of Biarritz and Bayonne across the Pyrénées-Atlantique border.
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