Aude (Department, France)

Last modified: 2002-10-26 by ivan sache
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• Administrative data
• Flag of the General Council

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)
• Aude (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Administrative data

Code: 11
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Traditional provinces: Languedoc, Comté de Foix
Bordering departments: Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hérault, Pyrénées-Orientales, Tarn

Area: 6,139 km²
Population (1995): 305,300 inhabitants

Préfecture: Carcassonne
Sous-préfectures: Limoux, Narbonne
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 34 cantons, 437 communes.

The department is named after the river Aude (220 km), tributary of Mediterranean Sea.

Flag of the General Council

by Olivier Touzeau

Source: a photography (in a French magazine) of the General Council building.