Perpignan | |
Aerial view of Perpignan | |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Arrondissement | Perpignan |
Canton | Perpignan-1, Perpignan-2, Perpignan-3, Perpignan-4, Perpignan-5, Perpignan-6 |
Intercommunality | Perpignan Méditerranée |
Mayor | Louis Aliot (RN) (2020-) |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 8–95 m (26–312 ft) (avg. 52 m/171 ft) |
Land area1 | 68.07 km2 (26.28 sq mi) |
Population2 | 120,605 (2014) |
- Density | 1,772/km2 (4,590/sq mi) |
INSEE/Postal code | 66136/ 66000 |
Website | www.mairie-perpignan.fr |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
Perpignan (Catalan: Perpinyà) is a city in the south of France. It is also a commune and the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department. Perpignan was the capital of the old province and county of Roussillon (Rosselló in Catalan) and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Perpignan was named, from 2001, as a City of Art and History (French: Ville d'Art et d'Histoire) by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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