Haute-Vienne
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Haute-Vienne | |
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Coat of arms of the Haute-Vienne department | |
Location | |
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Administration | |
Department number: | 87 |
Region: | Limousin |
Prefecture: | Limoges |
Subprefectures: | Bellac Rochechouart |
Arrondissements: | 3 |
Cantons: | 42 |
Communes: | 201 |
President of the General Council: | Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont PS |
Statistics | |
Population | Ranked 62nd |
-1999 | 353,893 |
Population density: | 64/km² |
Land area¹: | 5520 km² |
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. It is one of three departments which together, constitute the French region of Limousin.
The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. All other towns in the department have less than 20,000 inhabitants.
[edit] Geography
The source of the Charente River is in the department, near Rochechouart.
The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne, Indre.
[edit] See also
- Cantons of the Haute-Vienne department
- Communes of the Haute-Vienne department
- Arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department
[edit] External links
- (French) Prefecture website
- (French) General Council webstite