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Nice metropolitan area ( French: aire d'attraction de Nice) as defined by INSEE in 2021 is the functional urban area or commuting zone of the city of Nice, southeastern France. It covers 100 communes, has 1,103,527 inhabitants (2021) and an area of 2,073 km 2. [2] [3] It partly overlaps with the urban unit (contiguously built-up area) of Nice ...
The French Riviera, known in French as the Côte d'Azur ( IPA: [kot dazyʁ]; Provençal: Còsta d'Azur, IPA: [ˈkwɔstɔ daˈzyʀ]; lit.'. Azure Coast' ), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is considered to be the coastal area of the Alpes-Maritimes department, extending from ...
Nice (/ n iː s / NEESS, French pronunciation: ⓘ; Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard, pronounced; Italian: Nizza; Ligurian: Nissa; Ancient Greek: Νίκαια; Latin: Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits ...
Hostilities with France recommenced during the 17th century and the county was subjected to French occupation twice (1691–1697 and 1707–1713). Nice in 1624, when it was called Nizza. During the 18th century the border between the county of Nice and France was rectified several times.
A map of the County of Nice showing the area of the Italian kingdom of Sardinia annexed in 1860 to France (light brown). The area in red had already become part of France before 1860. The arrondissement of Nice is roughly equivalent to the ancient County of Nice, a historical region belonging first to the Duchy of Savoy and then to the Kingdom ...
Module:Location map/data/France Nice is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Nice. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Grasse is the centre of the French perfume industry and is known as the world's perfume capital ( la capitale mondiale des parfums ). Many "noses" (or, in French, "les nez" (plural)/"le nez" (singular)) are trained or have spent time in Grasse to distinguish over 2,000 kinds of scents. Grasse produces over two-thirds of France's natural aromas ...
Coordinates: 43°42′02″N 7°16′05″E. Avenue Jean Médecin and Yann Kersalé 's L'amorse du bleu. The Avenue Jean Médecin is a street located in the center of Nice, one of the city's main north-south traffic arteries. In Niçard, it is officially named the "avenguda Jouan-Medecin, consòu de Nissa". It constitutes the city's main ...