Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Dissolved | 2016-01-01 |
| Prefecture | Poitiers |
| Departments | 4
|
| Government | |
| • President | Jean-François Macaire (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 25,809 km2 (9,965 sq mi) |
| Population (2007-01-01) | |
• Total | 1,722,000 |
| • Density | 67/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €54.764 billion |
| • Per capita | €30,300 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | FR-T |
| NUTS Region | FR5 |
| Website | poitou-charentes.fr |
Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation: [pwatu ʃaʁɑ̃t] ⓘ; Occitan: Peitau-Charantas; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Poetou-Chérentes) was an administrative region on the southwest coast of France. It comprised four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois, Aunis, Saintonge and Poitou.
Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan.
Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on 1 January 2016.