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Code: 64
Region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Aquitaine until 2014)
Traditional provinces:
Béarn,
Guyenne and Gascony
Bordering departments: Gers,
Landes,
Hautes-Pyrénées
Bordering country: Spain (Autonomous
Community of Aragon [Province of
Huesca], Autonomous Community of
Navarra, and Autonomous Community of
Basque Country [Province of
Guipuzcoa])
Area: 7,645 km2
Population (2017): 677,309 inhabitants
Préfecture: Pau
Sous-préfectures: Bayonne, Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 27 cantons, 546 municipalities.
The department is named after the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
Formerly known as Pyrénées-Inférieures (Lower Pyrenees), the department was renamed Pyrénées-Atlantiques on 10 October 1969.
On 1 June 1857, the municipality of Saint-Esprit was transferred from the department of Landes to the department of Pyrénées-Inférieures.
Ivan Sache, 14 November 2009