Golden Banana

The Golden Banana or Sun Belt is an area of higher population density lying between Cartagena in the west and Genoa in the east along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

The area runs along the Mediterranean coast, including the French cities of Nice, Marseille, Montpellier the Spanish cities of Barcelona to Valencia.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was defined by the "Europe 2000" report from the European Commission in 1995 similarly to the Blue Banana.

^ Eskelinen, Heikki; Liikanen, Ilkka; Oska, Jukka (1999). Curtains of iron and gold: reconstructing borders and scales of interaction. Ashgate. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-84014-460-4.
^ "New Regional Economics in Central European Economies: The Future of CENTROPE" (PDF). Proceedings of OeNB Workshops. March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
^ See also: John Loughlin "Europe of the Regions" and the Federalization of Europe" (1996) 26 (4): pp 141.

[1] Eskelinen, Heikki; Liikanen, Ilkka; Oska, Jukka (1999). Curtains of iron and gold: reconstructing borders and scales of interaction. Ashgate. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-84014-460-4.

[2] "New Regional Economics in Central European Economies: The Future of CENTROPE" (PDF). Proceedings of OeNB Workshops. March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.

[3] See also: John Loughlin "Europe of the Regions" and the Federalization of Europe" (1996) 26 (4): pp 141.

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