France: Regions

		Area			Population Density (2004)
Region	Capital	km²	mi²	Population (2005 estimate)	Persons per km²	Persons per mi²

Alsace	Strasbourg	8,280	3,197	1,817,000	217	562
Aquitaine	Bordeaux	41,309	15,949	3,099,000	74	192
Auvergne	Clermont-Ferrand	26,013	10,044	1,334,000	50	129
Lower Normandy	Caen	17,589	6,791	1,449,000	82	212
Burgundy	Dijon	31,582	12,194	1,624,000	51	132
Brittany	Rennes	27,209	10,505	3,081,000	111	287
Centre	Orléans	39,151	15,116	2,505,000	63	163
Champagne-Ardenne	Châlons-en-Champagne	25,606	9,887	1,339,000	52	135
Corsica	Ajaccio	8,680	3,351	279,000	31	80
Franche-Comté	Besançon	16,202	6,256	1,146,000	70	181
Upper Normandy	Rouen	12,318	4,756	1,811,000	147	381
Île-de-France	Paris	12,011	4,637	11,491,000	938	2,429
Languedoc-Roussillon	Montpellier	27,376	10,570	2,520,000	90	233
Limousin	Limoges	16,942	6,541	725,000	42	109
Lorraine	Metz	23,547	9,092	2,339,000	99	256
Midi-Pyrénées	Toulouse	45,348	17,509	2,755,000	59	153
Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Lille	12,414	4,793	4,043,000	324	839
Pays de la Loire	Nantes	32,082	12,387	3,426,000	104	269
Picardy	Amiens	19,399	7,490	1,886,000	97	251
Poitou-Charentes	Poitiers	25,809	9,965	1,713,000	65	168
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	Marseille	31,400	12,124	4,781,000	149	386
Rhône-Alpes	Lyon	43,698	16,872	6,005,000	135	350