Gard
Gard | |
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From top down, left to right: Pont du Gard, prefecture building in Nîmes, Cévennes and Arena of Nîmes | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Gard in France | |
| Coordinates: 44°7′41″N 4°4′54″E / 44.12806°N 4.08167°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitanie |
| Prefecture | Nîmes |
| Subprefectures | Alès Le Vigan |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Françoise Laurent-Perrigot (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,853 km2 (2,260 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 770,940 |
| • Rank | 32nd |
| • Density | 131.7/km2 (341.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department number | 30 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 23 |
| Communes | 351 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Gard (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ] ⓘ) is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 748,437 as of 2019; its prefecture is Nîmes.
The department is named after the river Gardon. In recent decades of the twenty-first century, local administration and French speakers have returned to the original Occitan name of the river, Gard (Occitan pronunciation: [gaɾ]). It is part of a revival of Occitan culture.