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Cévennes National Park (French: Parc national des Cévennes) is a French national park located in Southern France, in the mountainous area of Cévennes.. Created in 1970, the park has its administrative seat in Florac at Florac Castle.
Currently, 49 properties in France are inscribed on the World Heritage List. 42 of these are cultural properties, 6 are natural properties, and 1 is mixed. [1] Four properties are transboundary properties. [3] The first was added to the list in 1979 and the latest in 2019. Five properties were submitted in 1979. [1]
French national parks in red, regional parks in green, marine parks in blue. The national parks of France are a system of eleven national parks throughout metropolitan France and its overseas departments, coordinated by National Parks of France (French: Parcs nationaux de France) within the French Office for Biodiversity (Office français pour la biodiversité), an établissement public à ...
It includes southern Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the west, Occitanie in the centre, the southern parts of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the northeast, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the southeast, as well as the island of Corsica in the southeast.
Southern France is generally considered part of southern Europe because of its association with the Mediterranean Sea. The term Midi derives from mi ('middle') and di ('day') in Old French , comparable to the term Mezzogiorno to indicate southern Italy, Miazăzi which is a synonym for south in Romanian , or meridional which is a synonym for the ...
The Camargue (/ k æ ˈ m ɑːr ɡ /, [3] [4] also UK: / k ə ˈ-/, [5] US: / k ɑː ˈ-/, [6] French:; Provençal: Camarga) is a coastal region in southern France located south of the city of Arles, between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône river delta. The eastern arm is called the Grand Rhône; the western is the Petit ...
Béziers (French: ⓘ; [3] [4] Occitan: Besièrs) is a city in southern France. It is a subprefecture of the Hérault department in the Occitanie region. Every August Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, which is centred on bullfighting. A million visitors are attracted to the five-day event. [5]
Marseille, France's second-largest city, has one of the largest container ports in the country. It prizes itself as France's oldest city, founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC. [ 3 ] Bouches-du-Rhône is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , with 2,043,110 inhabitants as of 2019. [ 4 ]
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