Pays de la Loire - Wikipedia

'Loire Lands'; Breton: Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of ... PaysdelaLoire FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch AdministrativeregionofFrance RegioninFrancePaysdelaLoireRegionChâteaudeMontsoreau FlagCoatofarmsBrandmarkCoordinates:47°25′03″N00°51′18″W/47.41750°N0.85500°W/47.41750;-0.85500Coordinates:47°25′03″N00°51′18″W/47.41750°N0.85500°W/47.41750;-0.85500Country FrancePrefectureNantesDepartments 5 Loire-AtlantiqueMaine-et-LoireMayenneSartheVendée Government • PresidentoftheRegionalCouncilChristelleMorançais(LR)Area • Total32,082 km2(12,387 sq mi) • Rank8thPopulation (Jan. 2019)[1] • Total3,806,461 • Density120/km2(310/sq mi)TimezoneUTC+01:00(CET) • Summer(DST)UTC+02:00(CEST)ISO3166codeFR-PDLGDP (2012)[2]Ranked5thTotal€101.2billion(US$130.2bn)Percapita€27,775(US$35,725)NUTSRegionFR5Websitewww.paysdelaloire.fr PaysdelaLoire(Frenchpronunciation: ​[pe.id(ə)lalwaʁ];lit. 'LoireLands';Breton:BroioùalLiger)isoneofthe18regionsofFrance,inthewestofthemainland.Itwascreatedinthe1950stoserveasazoneofinfluenceforitscapital,Nantes,oneofahandfulof"balancingmetropolises"(métropolesd'équilibre)¹. Contents 1Geography 1.1Departmentsandformerprovince 2Demography 3Economy 4Majorcommunities 5Seealso 6Notes 7References 8Externallinks Geography[edit] AvineinBrem,PaysdelaLoire PaysdelaLoireisinwesternFrance,borderedbyBrittanyonthenorthwest,Normandyonthenorth,Centre-ValdeLoireontheeast,Nouvelle-Aquitaineonthesouth,andtheBayofBiscayoftheNorthAtlanticOceanonthesouthwest. Departmentsandformerprovince[edit] PaysdelaLoirecomprisesfivedepartments:Loire-Atlantique,Maine-et-Loire,Mayenne,Sarthe,Vendée. PaysdelaLoireismadeupofthefollowinghistoricalprovinces: PartofBrittany,withitsoldcapitalNantescontainedwithintheLoire-Atlantiquedepartment.Thisisonly20%ofhistoricalBrittany.Theother80%ofhistoricalBrittanymakesuptheregionofBrittany Anjou:islargelycontainedwithintheMaine-et-Loiredepartment;thewholeoftheformerprovinceofAnjouiscontainedinsidePaysdelaLoire. Maine:isnowdividedbetweentheMayenneandSarthedepartments;thewholeoftheformerprovinceofMaineiscontainedinsidePaysdelaLoire. PartofPoitou:iscontainedwithintheVendéedepartment;mostoftheoldprovinceofPoitouisinsidetheNouvelle-Aquitaineregion. PartofPerche:iswithinthenortheastofSarthedepartment;therestofPercheisinsidetheNormandyandCentre-ValdeLoireregions. SmallpartofTouraine:southeastofMaine-et-Loiredepartment;mostoftheformerprovinceofTouraineisinsidetheCentreregion. Thusthenameoftheregion,chosenbytheFrenchcentralgovernment,wasnotbasedonhistory,butpurelyongeographicalreferences:Pays("lands")delaLoire("oftheLoire"). LoireValleyisaUNESCOlistedWorldHeritageSitesince2000,itislocatedbothintheadministrativeregionsofPaysdelaLoireandCentre-ValdeLoire.[3][4]AlthoughmajorityofthechâteauxoftheLoireValleysuchasMontsoreau,Angers,SaumurorBrézéinPaysdelaLoirearelocatedintheMaine-et-Loiredepartement,[5]PaysdelaLoirehasnumerousprominentmonuments,suchasthecastlesofLaval,andtheNantesChâteaudesDucsdeBretagne,theRoyalFontevraudAbbey(thewidestmonasticensembleinEurope),andtheoldcityofLeMans.ItalsohasmanynaturalparkssuchastheBrièreandtheMarshofPoitou. Demography[edit] Evolutionofthepopulationlistedbydepartments: Year Populationofthedepartments Loire-Atlantiquedepartment Maine-et-Loiredepartment Mayennedepartment Sarthedepartment Vendéedepartment TotalPaysdelaLoire 1801 369,305 375,544 305,654 388,143 243,426 1,682,072 1851 535,664 516,197 374,566 473,071 383,734 2,283,232 1901 664,971 515,431 313,103 422,699 441,311 2,357,515 1921 649,691 475,485 397,292 2,174,150 1936 659,428 478,404 251,348 388,519 389,211 2,166,910 1946 665,064 393,787 2,224,163 1954 733,575 395,641 2,320,177 1962 803,372 535,122 250,030 443,019 408,928 2,440,471 1968 861,452 585,563 252,762 461,839 421,250 2,582,866 1975 934,499 629,849 261,789 490,385 450,641 2,767,163 1982 995,498 675,321 271,784 504,768 483,027 2,930,398 1990 1,050,539 704,668 277,748 513,280 508,962 3,055,197 2005 1,208,761 754,997 297,854 551,971 587,162 3,400,745 AsteepincreaseinthepopulationwasseenparticularlyaspeoplemigratedfromalloverFrancetotheLoireregionduetotheriseofNantestoprominence. Economy[edit] TheGrossdomesticproduct(GDP)oftheregionwas119.1billioneurosin2018,accountingfor5.1%ofFrencheconomicoutput.GDPpercapitaadjustedforpurchasingpowerwas28,200eurosor94%oftheEU27averageinthesameyear.TheGDPperemployeewas102%oftheEUaverage.[6] Majorcommunities[edit] Half-timberedhousesinAngers ThebiggestcityinPaysdelaLoireisNantes,whichisthesixthmostpopulatedcityinFrancewithover319,000people(cityproper)andametropolitanpopulationofalmost1,000,000. Angersisanothermetropolisoftheregion.Ithasametropolitanpopulationofabout400,000andisthethirdbiggestjobproviderinnorth-westernFrance,justbehindNantesandRennes. LeMansisanothercityinPaysdelaLoire.Situatedinnorth-eastPaysdelaLoire,LeMansishometoover300,000(metropolitanpopulation). Nantes Angers LeMans LaRoche-sur-Yon Cholet Saint-Nazaire Laval Seealso[edit] Saint-Paulincheese,anotherTrappistcheesefromFrance ChâteaudeMontsoreau-MuseumofContemporaryArt,featuringthePhilippeMéailleCollection,thelargestcollectionofworksbytheradicalconceptualartistsofArt&Language.[7][8][9][10] MontsoreauFleaMarket,thelargestFleaMarketintheLoireValley,everysecondSundayofthemonth.[11][12][13] RegionalCouncilofPaysdelaLoire,deliberativeassemblyoftheregion Notes[edit] ¹Inthe1960sundertheCharlesdeGaullegovernment,eightlargeregionalcitiesofFrance(Lille,Nancy,Strasbourg,Lyon,Nantes,Bordeaux,Marseille,Toulouse)weremade"balancingmetropolises",receivingspecialfinancialandtechnicalhelpfromtheFrenchgovernmentinordertocounterbalancetheexcessiveweightofParisinsideFrance. References[edit] ^"Téléchargementdufichierd'ensembledespopulationslégalesen2019".TheNationalInstituteofStatisticsandEconomicStudies.29December2021. ^INSEE."Produitsintérieursbrutsrégionauxetvaleursajoutéesrégionallolà2012".Retrieved4March2014. ^Centre,UNESCOWorldHeritage."TheLoireValleybetweenSully-sur-LoireandChalonnes".whc.unesco.org.Retrieved12February2018. ^Tockner,Klement;Uehlinger,Urs;Robinson,ChristopherT.(2009).RiversofEurope.AcademicPress.p. 183.ISBN 978-0-12-369449-2.Retrieved11April2011. ^"LoireValleyChateaux|Castles|visitfromourextensivelist".www.experienceloire.com.Retrieved6October2018. ^"RegionalGDPpercapitarangedfrom30%to263%oftheEUaveragein2018".Eurostat. ^"LargestArt&LanguageCollectionFindsHome-artnetNews".artnetNews.23June2015.Retrieved12February2018. ^"MACBAbanksonHistory".Artinamericamagazine.com.2011. ^"Art&LanguageUncompleted".macba.cat.2014. ^"ChateaudeMontsoreau-FIAC".www.fiac.com.23September2017.Archivedfromtheoriginalon27March2019.Retrieved6October2018. ^"PracticalInformation".ChâteaudeMontsoreau-MuseumofContemporaryArt.Archivedfromtheoriginalon21March2019.Retrieved15September2018. ^"SnapshotsoftheLoireTheMontsoreaufleamarket".TVMONDE.Retrieved17September2018. ^"DiscovertheWorld's500BestFleaMarkets".Fleamapket.Retrieved17September2018. 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