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Code: 13
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur
Traditional provinces:
Provence
Bordering departments: Gard,
Var, Vaucluse
Area: 5,087 km2
Population (1995): 1,797,000 inhabitants
Préfecture:
Marseilles
Sous-préfectures:
Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Istres
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 47 cantons, 119 communes.
The department is named after the mouth (bouches) of the river Rhône (812 km, 522 of them in France), tributary of Mediterranean Sea.