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Haute-Vienne (ōt-vyĕn), department (1990 pop. 353,500), central France, in the Massif Central. Limoges is the capital.


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Haute-Vienne
Coat of Arms of Haute-Vienne
Location
Location of Haute-Vienne in France
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
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Statistics
Population Ranked 62nd
 -1999 353,893
Population density: 64/km2
Land area¹: 5520 km2
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 that together constitute the French region of Limousin.

The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. The other towns in the department each have fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.

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Geography

The source of the Charente River is in the department, in the commune of Chéonnac, near Rochechouart.

The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre.

Arrondissements

The three arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department are:

  1. Arrondissement of Bellac, (subprefecture: Bellac) with eight cantons and 63 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 42,687 in 1990 and 40,120 in 1999, a decrease of 6.01%.
  2. Arrondissement of Limoges, (prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department: Limoges) with 28 cantons and 108 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 274,643 in 1990 and 278,439 in 1999, an increase of 1.38%.
  3. Arrondissement of Rochechouart, (subprefecture: Rochechouart) with six cantons and 30 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 36,263 in 1990 and 35,334 in 1999, a decrease of 2.56%.

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Coordinates: 45°50′N 1°16′E / 45.833°N 1.267°E / 45.833; 1.267


 
 

 

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