Côte-d'Or (Department, France)

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• France
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• Côte-d'Or (Department, France): Municipal flags
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Administrative data

Code: 21
Region: Bourgogne
Traditional provinces: Bourgogne, Champagne
Bordering departments: Aube, Jura, Haute-Marne, Nièvre, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne

Area: 8,763 km²
Population (1995): 507,300 inhabitants

Préfecture: Dijon
Sous-préfectures: Beaune, Montbard
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 43 cantons, 705 communes.

The department ("Golden Coast") is named after the Côte, the linear fault escarpment on which are located the famous Burgundy vineyards.
When departments were created in 1790, the deputy André-Rémy Arnoult, secretary of the Constituante Assembly, proposed the name Côte-