Haute-Vienne
Haute-Vienne
Nauta Vinhana (Occitan) Upper Vienne | |
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Prefecture building in Limoges | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Haute-Vienne in France | |
| Coordinates: 45°50′N 1°16′E / 45.833°N 1.267°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Prefecture | Limoges |
| Subprefectures | Bellac Rochechouart |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Jean-Claude Leblois (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,520 km2 (2,130 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 373,167 |
| • Rank | 65th |
| • Density | 67.6/km2 (175/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department number | 87 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 21 |
| Communes | 195 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Haute-Vienne (French: [ot vjɛn]; Occitan: Nauta Vinhana or Nauta Viena), also translated as Upper Vienne, is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve départements that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The prefecture and largest city in the department is Limoges, the other towns in the department each having fewer than twenty thousand inhabitants. Haute-Vienne had a population of 372,359 in 2019.