Last modified: 2002-01-18 by ivan sache
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Code: 65
Region:
Midi-Pyrénées
Traditional province:
Guyenne-et-Gascogne
Bordering departments: Haute-Garonne,
Gers,
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Bordering country: Spain (Autonomous
Community of Aragon [province of
Huesca], Autonomous Community of
Catalonia [province of
Lleida])
Area: 4,464 km2
Population (1995): 224,000 inhabitants
Préfecture: Tarbes
Sous-préfectures: Argelès-Gazost,
Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 34 cantons, 475 communes.
The department is named ("Upper-Pyrénées") after the Pyrénées mountains.