Hautes-Pyrénées (Department, France)

Last modified: 2002-01-18 by ivan sache
Keywords: hautes-pyrenees | midi-pyrenees |
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Administrative data

Code: 65
Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Traditional province: Guyenne-et-Gascogne
Bordering departments: Haute-Garonne, Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Bordering country: Spain (Autonomous Community of Aragon [province of Huesca], Autonomous Community of Catalonia [province of Lleida])

Area: 4,464 km²
Population (1995): 224,000 inhabitants

Préfecture: Tarbes
Sous-préfectures: Argelès-Gazost, Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 34 cantons, 475 communes.

The department is named ("Upper-Pyrénées") after the Pyrénées mountains.