Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon Lengadòc-Rosselhon (Occitan)
Region of France
Flag Coat of arms
Country	France
Dissolved	2016-01-01
Prefecture	Montpellier
Departments	5 Aude (11) Gard (30) Hérault (34) Lozère (48) Pyrénées-Orientales (66)
Government
• President	Damien Alary (DVG)
Area
• Total	27,376 km2 (10,570 sq mi)
Population  (2012-01-01)
• Total	2,700,266
• Density	99/km2 (260/sq mi)
GDP [1]
• Total	€85.916 billion (2022)
• Per capita	€30,400 (2022)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	FR-K
NUTS Region	FR8
Website	laregion.fr

Languedoc-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃] ^ⓘ; Occitan: Lengadòc-Rosselhon [ˌleŋɡɔˈðɔk ruseˈʎu]; Catalan: Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania.^[2] It comprised five departments, and bordered the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées towards the north, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea towards the south. It was the southernmost region of mainland France.