Pyrénées-Orientales

Also known as Eastern Pyrenees, Pyrénées Orientales, P.-O., Pays Catalan

Pyrénées-Orientales (; ; ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It borders the departments of Ariège to the northwest and Aude to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the east and the Spanish province of Girona in Catalonia to the south and the country of Andorra to the west. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish exclave of Llívia, and thus has two distinct borders with Spain. In 2023, it had a population of 496,855. Some parts of the Pyrénées-Orientales (like the Cerda

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Pyrénées-Orientales is a department in southern France that sits along the Spanish border and Mediterranean coast, serving as the French part of the Catalonia region. With nearly 500,000 residents, it holds geographic and cultural significance as a crossroads between France, Spain, and the Mediterranean, while also having the unique distinction of surrounding a Spanish exclave.

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Settlement.name: Pyrénées-Orientales
Settlement.native_name_lang: fr
Settlement.type: Department of France
Settlement.image_skyline: Perpignan - Préfecture 3.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Prefecture building of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in Perpignan
Settlement.image_flag: Flag_of_the_Department_of_Pyrénées-Orientales.svg
Settlement.flag_link: Senyera
Settlement.image_shield: Blason département fr Pyrénées-Orientales.svg
Settlement.image_map: Pyrénées-Orientales-Position.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Pyrénées-Orientales in France
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: France
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Occitania
Settlement.established_date: 9 February 1790
Settlement.seat_type: Prefecture
Settlement.seat: Perpignan
Settlement.parts_type: Subprefectures