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Pays-de-la-Loire Province of France

Facts on Pays de la Loire

Land area: 32,082 km²
Population: estimated at 3,426,000
Area: 107/km² (2006)
Capital City: Nantes

Pays de la Loire is one of the 26 regions of France, and is one of the regions of France, which was created in the late 20th century to ensure it France continued to have the capital city of Nantes.

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Facts on Pays-de-la-Loire Province of France

It is one of a handful of so-called "balancing metropolis" in other words, an artificially created region. A good example of an artificially created region is Rhône-Alpes, which was created as the region for Lyon, also now known as the Midi-Pyrénées, which was created to serve as a region for Toulouse.

Pays de la Loire is a part of Brittany, with its old capital Nantes contained within the Loire-Atlantique department.

The whole of the former province of Maine is contained inside Pays de la Loire and Maine is now divided between the Mayenne and Sarthe departments.

The name of the region was chosen by the French government and was based purely on the geographical location - Pays means "lands" and de la Loire means "of the Loire River".  However it does cause some confusion, since the chateaux of the Loire valley are actually located in the Centre region and not within Pays del la Loire!

The departments within Pays del al Loire are: Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne, Sarthe, Vendee and Maine-et-Loire.




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