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Ariège

French department
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Summary

Ariège is a department of France[1]. Ariège draws 3,291 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #44 of 147).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Occitania[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Head of government: Christine Téqui[5]
  • Capital: Foix[6]
  • Shares border with: Haute-Garonne[7], Aude[8], Pyrénées-Orientales[9], Province of Lleida[10]
  • Named after: Ariège[11]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: arrondissement of Foix[12], arrondissement of Pamiers[13], arrondissement of Saint-Girons[14]
  • Commons category: Ariège (department)[15]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[16], UTC+02:00[17]
  • Inception: March 4, 1790[18]
  • Highest point: Pica d'Estats[19]
  • Official website: http://www.ariege.fr/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ariège (department)[21]
  • Commons gallery: Ariège[22]
  • Population: 152,684[23], 152,499[24], 153,153[25], 153,066[26], 153,287[27], 153,954[28], 154,596[29], 155,339[30], 155,722[31]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Ariège[32]
  • Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[33]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[34], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[35]
  • Official name: Ariège[36]
  • List of monuments: Liste des monuments historiques de l'Ariège[37]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Ariège[38]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Ariège[39]
  • Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Ariège (department)[40]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Ariège (department)[41]
  • Area: 4890 km²[42]

Why It Matters

Ariège has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Ariège is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Related Entities

Aigues-Juntes Aigues-Vives Albiès Aleu Alliat Allières Alos Arignac Arnave Arrout Artigat Ascou Ax-les-Thermes Foix France Kuşadası Montségur Pamiers Saint-Girons Saint-Lizier

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Populations légales 2021. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Populations de référence 2022. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Populations de référence 2023. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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