Languedoc-Roussillon - FRJ1

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Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Languedoc-Roussillon

note: in thousands, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of ecnomically inactive

Employment by sectors, Languedoc-Roussillon

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Languedoc-Roussillon (French: [lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃] (listen); Occitan: Lengadòc-Rosselhon; Catalan: Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitanie. It comprised five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side. It was the southernmost region of mainland France.

Toponymy

The first part of the name of the province of Languedoc-Roussillon comes from the French langue d'oc ("language of oc"). In southern France, the word for yes was the Occitan language word oc. Prior to the 16th century, the central area of France was referred to as Languedoil, there the word for yes was oil in Old French, later becoming oui. These old place names referred to the areas where Occitan and Old French were spoken.

other: Occitania, Midi-Pyrénées, Languedoc-Roussillon

neighbours: Auvergne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées, Catalonia

subregions: Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère, Pyrénées-Orientales

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Languedoc-Roussillon - FRJ1, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/FRJ1