Bouches-du-Rhône (Department, France)

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• Administrative data

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• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
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• Bouches-du-Rhône (Department, France): Municipal flags
  • Marseilles
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  • Les Baux-de-Provence
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  • Cassis
  • La Ciotat
  • Lançon-de-Provence
  • Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts
  • Salon-de-Provence
  • Vitrolles
• Nacioun Gardians (Cultural association, Camargue)
• Bouches-du-Rhône (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Administrative data

Code: 13
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Traditional provinces: Provence
Bordering departments: Gard, Var, Vaucluse

Area: 5,087 km²
Population (1995): 1,797,000 inhabitants

Préfecture: Marseilles
Sous-préfectures: Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Istres
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 47 cantons, 119 communes.

The department is named after the mouth (bouches) of the river Rhône (812 km, 522 of them in France), tributary of Mediterranean Sea.

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