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| Haute-Vienne | |
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| Coat of arms of the Haute-Vienne department | |
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| Administration | |
| Department number: | 87 |
| Region: | Limousin |
| Prefecture: | Limoges |
| Subprefectures: | Bellac Rochechouart |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 42 |
| Communes: | 201 |
| President of the General Council: | Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont PS |
| Statistics | |
| Population | Ranked 62nd |
| -1999 | 353,893 |
| Population density: | 64/km² |
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| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. It is one of three departments which together, constitute the French region of Limousin.
The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. All other towns in the department have less than 20,000 inhabitants.
The source of the Charente River is in the department, near Rochechouart.
The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne, Indre.
The 3 arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department are:
Overseas departments: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Réunion
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