Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is one of the administrative regions of France. Its capital is Bordeaux. By land area, it is the largest region of France.
It is in the southwest of France formed in 2014 by three old regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. "Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes" was the temporary name for the region.
Geography.
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is the largest region of France with an area of . It is in southwestern France and borders to the northwest with the Pays de la Loire region, to the north with the Centre-Val de Loire region, to the east with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, to the southwest with the Occitanie region and to the south with Spain.
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine has about of coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
The distances from Bordeaux, the capital of the region, to other cities are:
Rivers.
The only main drainage basin in the region is the Atlantic basin; some of the rivers in region, from south to north, are:
Mountains.
The territory of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed mostly by large plains and low plateaus ( high). In the northern part of the region, the highest point is Mont Bessou with an elevation of , in the Massif Central. In the southern part of the region, there are higher mountains in the Pyrenees.
The Pic Palas (), at , is the highest mountain of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is in the Pyrenees mountain range of southern Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
The highest point of the different departments in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region are:
Departments.
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is formed by 12 departments:
"Arr." = Arrondissements          "Cant." = Cantons          "Comm." = Communes
Demographics.
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region had, in 2014, a population of 5,879,144, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The main cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants (2014) in the region are: