Aude
Aude | |
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From top down, left to right: Carcassonne, prefecture traversed by the Aude River, Mediterranean coast near Narbonne, Caudeval and Peyriac-de-Mer | |
Location of Aude in France | |
| Coordinates: 43°5′N 2°25′E / 43.083°N 2.417°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitanie |
| Prefecture | Carcassonne |
| Subprefectures | Limoux Narbonne |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Hélène Sandragné (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,139 km2 (2,370 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 377,773 |
| • Rank | 64th |
| • Density | 62/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | FR-11 |
| Department number | 11 |
| Largest city | Narbonne |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 19 |
| Communes | 433 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
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Aude (French: [od] ⓘ ohd; Occitan: [ˈawðe]) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" (French: Pays cathare) after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries.
Its prefecture is Carcassonne and its subprefectures are Limoux and Narbonne. As of 2019, it had a population of 374,070. Aude is a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Eudo, brother of Saint Hubertus. Aude was the name of Roland's fiancée in the chansons de geste.