Provence

Provence (French: Provence, Occitan: Provença) is a historical region of Europe, in western Occitania and southwestern France, located approximately between the Alps, the Rhone Valley and the Mediterranean Sea. It is currently the basis of an official region of France whose administrative 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.