Haute-Vienne
French department
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Summary
Haute-Vienne is a department of France[1]. Haute-Vienne draws 2,610 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #64 of 147).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nouvelle-Aquitaine[3]
- Country: France[4]
- Capital: Limoges[5]
- Shares border with: Charente[6], Corrèze[7], Creuse[8], Dordogne[9], Vienne[10], Indre[11]
- Named after: Vienne[12]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity: arrondissement of Bellac[13], arrondissement of Limoges[14], arrondissement of Rochechouart[15]
- Commons category: Haute-Vienne[16]
- Inception: March 4, 1790[17]
- Highest point: Puy Lagarde[18]
- Coordinate location: 45.8325, 1.2569444444444444[19]
- Official website: http://www.haute-vienne.pref.gouv.fr/[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Haute-Vienne[21]
- Commons gallery: Haute-Vienne[22]
- Population: 376,058[23], 375,795[24], 374,426[25], 373,199[26], 372,359[27], 372,123[28], 371,691[29], 372,438[30], 373,167[31]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Haute-Vienne[32]
- Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[33], prefect[34]
- Coordinates of northernmost point: 46.4014386, 1.3442679[35]
- Coordinates of southernmost point: 45.436593, 1.2430754[36]
- Coordinates of easternmost point: 45.6807329, 1.9104056[37]
- Coordinates of westernmost point: 45.7148006, 0.6293431[38]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[39], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[40]
- Official name: Haute-Vienne[41]
- List of monuments: Liste des monuments historiques de la Haute-Vienne[42]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in Haute-Vienne[43]
- Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Haute-Vienne[44]
Why It Matters
Haute-Vienne has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Haute-Vienne is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]