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Barcelonnette is a small town and commune in the Southern French Alps, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...
France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...
Capital Marseilles Area 31,400 km² Regional President Michel Vauzelle (PS) (since 1998) Population - 2004 estimate - 1999 census - Density (Ranked 3rd) 4,666,000 4,506,151 149/km² (2004) Arrondissements 18 Cantons 237 Communes 963 Départements Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-Maritimes Bouches-du-Rhône Hautes-Alpes...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Alpes_de_Haute_Provence is a French département in the south of France, it was formerly part of the province of Provence. ...
The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ...
The arrondissement of Barcelonnette is an arrondissement of France, located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région. ...
The canton is an administrative division of France. ...
INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ...
A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ...
A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...
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Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this projection, but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ...
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The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...
Alpes_de_Haute_Provence is a French département in the south of France, it was formerly part of the province of Provence. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ...
The city's name means "little Barcelona" in French. The city and the region around has been the center of French immigration wave to the Americas (mostly Mexico ) at the end 19th/ beginning 20th century. Families which had prospered abroad came back and built the huge mansions that one can see all over the town called "Meson Mexique". Today, a big community of Barcelonettes live in Mexico City and the city of Puebla in Mexico. The most notorious of these descendants in Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez. Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...
Geography
It is built at a height of 3717 ft. on the right bank of the Ubaye river, on which it is the most well-known place.
Miscellaneous It is mainly a tourist and resort centre, serving many ski lodges. A twin-tip shaped downhill ski. ...
Barcelonnette is situated in a wide and very fertile valley, and is surrounded by many villas, called "Maisons Mexicaines" (Mexican houses), which where built by natives who have made their fortune in Mexico.
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