Puy-de-Dôme

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Puy-de-Dôme
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Coat of arms of the Puy-de-Dôme department
Location
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Administration
Department number:	63
Region:	Auvergne
Prefecture:	Clermont-Ferrand
Subprefectures:	Ambert Issoire Riom Thiers
Arrondissements:	5
Cantons:	61
Communes:	470
President of the General Council:	Jean-Yves Gouttebel
Statistics
Population	Ranked 36th
-1999	604,266
Population density:	76/km²
Land area¹:	7970 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².
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Puy-de-Dôme (lo Puèi de Doma / lo Puèi Domat in the Auvergnat dialect of the Occitan language) is a department in the center of France named after the famous dormant volcano, the Puy-de-Dôme.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

Puy-de-Dôme is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from the former province of Auvergne. Originally, the department was to be called Mont d'Or ("golden mountain"), but this was judged not to be a very egalitarian name.

[edit] Geography

Puy-de-Dôme is part of the current region of Auvergne and is surrounded by the departments of Loire, Haute-Loire, Cantal, Corrèze, and Creuse.

The department is in the Massif Central and boasts more than 80 volcanic craters.
It is three hours from Paris and an hour from Lyon by highways A71 and A72. The A75 links it to the Mediterranean Sea.

Main cities are Clermont-Ferrand, Thiers, Riom, Issoire, Ambert and Cournon-d'Auvergne.

[edit] See also

• Cantons of the Puy-de-Dôme department
• Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department
• Arrondissements of the Puy-de-Dôme department

[edit] External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website

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