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Occitania
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administrative region of France
Occitania is an administrative region in southern France that was created in 2016 by combining several smaller regions. It matters as a significant economic and cultural area of France, encompassing major cities and diverse landscapes from the Mediterranean coast to the Pyrenees mountains.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Founded
- 2014
- Location
- Toulouse, France
- Also known as
- Occitania, Région Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée
- Status
- Active
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of France
- Official name
- Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
- Country
- France
- Located in
- metropolitan France
- Contains
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Capital
- Toulouse
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 6124653
- Area
- 72724
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Head of government
- Carole Delga
- Shares border with
- Ordino
- Highest point
- Vignemale
- Chairperson
- Carole Delga
- Follows
- Midi-Pyrénées
- Official website
- www.laregion.fr
- Image
- Carcassonne aéroport, panneau Occitanie-La Région.jpg
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- Commons category
- Occitanie
- topic's main category
- Category:Occitania (administrative region)
- start time
- 2016-01-01
- replaces
- Midi-Pyrénées
- social media followers
- 6890
- native label
- Occitània
- nickname
- Pyrénées-Méditerranée
- category for people born here
- Category:People born in Occitanie
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Occitanie
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Occitania (administrative region)
- different from
- Occitania
- annual number of weddings
- 20190
- external data available at URL
- data.laregion.fr
- twinned administrative body
- Kyoto Prefecture
- language used
- Occitan
- P11012
- silver
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Encyclopedic overview
Occitania (French: Occitanie [ɔksitani] ; Occitan: Occitània [utsiˈtanjɔ]; Catalan: Occitània [uksiˈtaniə]) is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, located in the south of the country, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of State approved Occitania as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, coming into effect on 30 September 2016.
The modern administrative region is named after the larger cultural and historical region of Occitania, which corresponds with the southern third of France. The region of Occitania as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of the Counts of Toulouse, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and is also a popular cultural symbol. In 2022, Occitania had a population of 6,080,731.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Occitania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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