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A map of the County of Nice showing the area of the Italian kingdom of Sardinia annexed in 1860 to France (light brown). The area in red had already become part of France before 1860. The arrondissement of Nice is roughly equivalent to the ancient County of Nice, a historical region belonging first to the Duchy of Savoy and then to the Kingdom ...
Nice metropolitan area (French: aire d'attraction de Nice) as defined by INSEE in 2021 is the functional urban area or commuting zone of the city of Nice, southeastern France. It covers 100 communes, has 1,103,527 inhabitants (2021) and an area of 2,073 km 2 .
Nice (/ n iː s / NEESS; French pronunciation: ⓘ; Italian: Nizza; Ligurian: Nissa; Occitan: Niça) [a] is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million [4] [3] on an area of 744 km 2 (287 sq mi). [3]
The Promenade was the site of the team time trial in the 2013 Tour de France, held on 2 July 2013. It was also featured as a start and finish location of the first two stages of the 2020 Tour de France. [4] Due to the Paris Olympics, the 2024 Tour de France concluded on the Promenade, instead of its usual location of the Champs-Élysées. [5]
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For only the city of Nice the tourism turnover represents a 12 to 13% share of the whole tourism market in France. The capital of the Côte d'Azur is the fifth most populous city in France. The city of Nice also has the second largest airport in France (Nice Côte d'Azur Airport), after Paris and its three airports at Roissy, Orly and Le ...
4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/France Nice. 7 languages.
The County of Nice as part of the Savoyard State.. Nice became part of the domains of the House of Savoy on 28 September 1388, with which Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, taking advantage of the internal struggles in Provence, negotiated with Giovanni Grimaldi, baron of Boglio (governor of Nice and the Eastern Provence) the passage of Nice and the Ubaye Valley to the Savoy domains, with the name ...