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{{See also|Languedoc-Roussillon wine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | official_name = Languedoc-Roussillon | native_name = {{native name|oc|Lengadòc-Rosselhon}} | native_name_lang = | settlement_type = [[Regions of France|Region of France]] | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_flag = Flag of Languedoc-Roussillon.svg | flag_size = 120px | image_shield = Arms of the French Region of Languedoc-Roussillon.svg | shield_size = | image_blank_emblem = Région Languedoc-Roussillon logo.svg | blank_emblem_size = 75px | image_map = Languedoc-Roussillon in France.svg | map_caption = | motto = | coordinates = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flagu|France}} | extinct_title = Dissolved | extinct_date = 2016-01-01 | seat_type = [[Prefectures in France|Prefecture]] | seat = [[Montpellier]] | parts_type = [[Departments of France|Departments]] | parts_style = list | parts = 5 | p1 = [[Aude]] (11) | p2 = [[Gard]] (30) | p3 = [[Hérault]] (34) | p4 = [[Lozère]] (48) | p5 = [[Pyrénées-Orientales]] (66) | p6 = | p7 = | p8 = | p9 = | p10 = | p11 = | p12 = | p13 = | p14 = | leader_party = [[Miscellaneous Left|DVG]] | leader_title = [[President of the Regional Council (France)|President]] | leader_name = Damien Alary | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 27376 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 2700266 | population_as_of = 2012-01-01 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | timezone1 = [[Central European Time|CET]] | utc_offset1 = +1 | timezone1_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | utc_offset1_DST = +2 | demographics_type1 = GDP | demographics1_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tgs00003/default/table?lang=en | title=EU regions by GDP, Eurostat|access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref> |demographics1_title1 = Total |demographics1_info1 = €85.916 billion (2022) | demographics1_title2 = Per capita |demographics1_info2 = €30,400 (2022) | blank_name_sec2 = [[First level NUTS of the European Union#France|NUTS Region]] | blank_info_sec2 = FR8 | website = [http://www.laregion.fr/ laregion.fr] | iso_code = FR-K | footnotes = }} '''Languedoc-Roussillon''' ({{IPA|fr|lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Languedoc-Roussillon.wav}}; {{langx|oc|Lengadòc-Rosselhon}} {{IPA|oc|ˌleŋɡɔˈðɔk ruseˈʎu|}}; {{langx|ca|Llenguadoc-Rosselló}}) is a former [[regions of France|administrative region]] of [[France]]. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of [[Midi-Pyrénées]] to become [[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitania]].<ref name="reform law">{{cite French law|number or usual name=n° 2015-29|date in French=16 janvier 2015|full name=relative à la délimitation des régions, aux élections régionales et départementales et modifiant le calendrier électoral|language=French|lower case=|URL=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do;jsessionid=9FECBA9D9314D1D2C093CF793C886ED5.tpdila21v_1?idSectionTA=JORFSCTA000030109623&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000030109622&dateTexte=29990101}}</ref> It comprised five [[departments of France|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.
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