Editing Lower Normandy (section)

{{Short description|Former administrative region in France}}
{{More citations needed|date=May 2024}}{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Lower Normandy
| native_name        = {{native name|fr|Basse-Normandie}}<br />{{native name|nrf|Basse-Normaundie}}
| image_map          = Basse-Normandie in France.svg
| image_flag         = Flag of Normandie.svg
| image_blank_emblem = Arms of William the Conqueror (1066-1087).svg
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = [[France]]
| extinct_title      = Dissolved
| extinct_date       = 2016-01-01
| seat_type          = [[Prefectures in France|Prefecture]]
| seat               = [[Caen]]
| area_total_km2     = 17589
| area_footnotes     =
| population_total   = 1453000
| population_as_of   = 2007-01-01
| population_footnotes =
| population_demonym = 
| 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      = €44.466 billion (2022)
| demographics1_title2     = Per capita
|demographics1_info2      = €30,300 (2022)
| parts_type         = [[Departments of France|Departments]]
| parts_style        = list
| parts              = 3
| p1                 = [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] (14)
| p2                 = [[Manche]] (50)
| p3                 = [[Orne]] (61)
| blank_name_sec2    = [[First level NUTS of the European Union#France|NUTS Region]]
| blank_info_sec2    = FR2
| iso_code           = FR-P
}}

'''Lower Normandy''' ({{langx|fr|Basse-Normandie}}, {{IPA|fr|bɑs nɔʁmɑ̃di, bas -|IPA|LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Basse-Normandie.wav}}; {{langx|nrf|Basse-Normaundie}}) is a former [[regions of France|administrative region]] of [[France]]. On 1 January 2016, Lower and [[Upper Normandy]] merged becoming one region called [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]].<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>