Alpes-Maritimes (Department, France)

Last modified: 2005-04-23 by ivan sache
Keywords: alpes-maritimes | provence-alpes-cote d'azur |
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No information is available on the flag of the department.

• Administrative data

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)
• Alpes-Maritimes (Department, France): Municipal flags
  • Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
  • Cagnes-sur-Mer
  • Cannes
  • Castillon
  • Châteauneuf-Villevieille
  • Grasse
  • Menton
  • Tende (Tenda)
  • Valbonne
  • Vallauris-Golfe-Juan
  • Vence
  • Villefranche-sur-Mer
• Brigasque/Brigaschi people
• Alpes-Maritimes (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Administrative data

Code: 06
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
Traditional provinces: ProvenceCounty of Nice
Bordering departments: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var
Bordering countries: Italy, Monaco (enclaved)

Area: 4,299 km²
Population (1995): 1,011,100 inhabitants

Préfecture: Nice
Sous-préfecture: Grasse
Subdivisions: 2 arrondissements, 51 cantons, 163 communes.

The department is named after the Alps mountains (Maritime Alps)