Provence

Provence (French: Provence, Occitan: Provença) is a historical region of Europe, politically in France and culturally in Occitania, stretching from the lower Rhone Valley to the southern Alps, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is an administrative region of France whose official name is Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (PACA), whose capital is Marseille and which comprises the six departments of Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var and Alpes-Maritimes. It has 4 818 000 inhabitants in an area of 31 400 km².