The Northern Basque Country (Iparralde or Pays Basque), the northern part of Euskal Herria, in France.
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Although Basque was recognized as the official language of the region in 1978, most Basques speak French or Spanish.
In the densely populated coastal provinces of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa the chief occupations are mining of iron, lead, copper, and zinc and metalworking, shipbuilding, and fishing.
The Basque nationalist leader, José Antonio de Aguirre, was elected president of the autonomous government, but a large part of its territory was soon in insurgent hands.
The BasqueCountry is a nation in southwestern Europe.
The BasqueCountry is the territory which is historically, ethnically and culturally Basque.
There is another minority language in the BasqueCountry: Occitan; several hundred people (or a few thousand) speak Gascon and Bearnais dialects of Occitan in the french side of the BasqueCountry.
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