Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. It has 300 sunny days per year, making it an excellent tourist destination.Photo: Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Cannes
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Once a small fishing village on the French Riviera, Cannes is now a glamorous and expensive seaside town of 74,000 people considered to be one of the social hubs of Europe.
Antibes
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Antibes is a city in the French Riviera. The Cap d'Antibes is the break between the Bay of Cannes to the south-west and the Baie des Anges to the north east.
Destinations
Grasse
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Grasse is a commune in Provence, France. It is known worldwide for its traditional perfume industry.
Cagnes-sur-Mer
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Cagnes-sur-Mer is a French Riviera town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Saint-Paul de Vence
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St.-Paul-de-Vence, in Alpes-Maritimes, France, is a perfectly preserved medieval village perched on a hillside several kilometres from the Mediterranean.
Villefranche-sur-Mer
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Villefranche-sur-Mer is a small beach resort and residential town on the French Riviera.
Vence
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Vence is an inland town of the French Riviera. Vence, with the Mediterranean below in the backgroundIt is an attractive old town surrounded by a ring of hills with splendid views down to the Mediterranean over Antibes and Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Mougins
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Mougins is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
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Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of France.
Sospel
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Sospel is a commune and former schismatic episcopal seat in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France near the Italian border and not far from Monte Carlo.
Castillon
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Castillon is a pleasant perched village on the road from Menton to Sospel and thence Breil sur Roya.
Peillon
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Peillon is a rural commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France.
Tourrettes-sur-Loup
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Tourrettes-sur-Loup is a medieval village perched on a rocky spine overlooking the French Riviera between Vence and Grasse.
Mercantour National Park
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Mercantour National Park is a French national park in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Alpes-Maritimes
- Type: County with 1,090,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Neighbors: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Liguria, Piedmont and Var
- Categories: department of France and locality
- Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
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Latitude of centre
43.9211° or 43° 55' 16" northLongitude of centre
7.1791° or 7° 10' 45" eastPopulation
1,090,000Elevation
501 metres (1,644 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 3266599461OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
3038049Wikidata ID
Q3139Alpes-Maritimes Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Alpes-Maritimes
- Albanian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Arabic: Alpes-Maritimes
- Arabic: الآلب البحرية (إقليم فرنسي)
- Arabic: الألب البحرية
- Aragonese: Alpes Maritimos
- Armenian: Ծովափնյա Ալպեր
- Arpitan: Arpes-Marenes
- Arpitan: Ârpes-de-Mar
- Azerbaijani: Dənizkənarı Alplar
- Balinese: Alpes-Maritimes
- Basque: Itsas Alpeak
- Belarusian: Альпы Прыморскія
- Belarusian: Прыморскія Альпы (дэпартамент)
- Belarusian: Прыморскія Альпы
- Belarusian: дэпартамент Прыморскія Альпы
- Bengali: আল্প-মারিতিম
- Breton: Alpoù-an-Arvor
- Bulgarian: Алп Маритим
- Catalan: Alps Marítims
- Catalan: Aups Maritims
- Cebuano: Alpes-Maritimes
- Chechen: ХӀордан йистера Альпаш (департамент)
- Chechen: ХӀордан йистера Альпаш
- Chinese: Alpes-Maritimes
- Chinese: 滨海阿尔卑斯省
- Chinese: 濱海阿爾卑斯
- Chinese: 濱海阿爾卑斯省
- Chuvash: Тинĕс Енчи Альп
- Croatian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Czech: Alpes-Maritimes
- Danish: Alpes-Maritimes
- Dutch: Alpes-Maritimes
- Dutch: Aups Maritims
- English: Alpes Maritimes
- English: Aups Maritims
- English: Maritime Alps
- Esperanto: Alpes-Maritimes
- Esperanto: Aups Maritims
- Esperanto: Marbordaj Alpoj
- Esperanto: departemento Marbordaj Alpoj
- Estonian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Estonian: Alpes-Maritimesi departemang
- Finnish: Alpes-Maritimes
- French: 06
- French: Alpes-Maritimes
- French: Aups Maritims
- French: Département des Alpes-Maritimes
- French: département des Alpes-Maritimes
- Galician: Alpes Marítimos
- Georgian: ზღვისპირა ალპები
- German: Alpes-Maritimes
- German: Aups Maritims
- German: Département Alpes-Maritimes
- Greek: Αλπ-Μαριτίμ
- Gujarati: આલ્પ્સ-મેરીટાઇમ્સ
- Hakka Chinese: Alpes-Maritimes-sén
- Hausa: Alpes-Maritimes-sén
- Hebrew: האלפים הימיים
- Hindi: एल्प्स-मैरिटाइम्स
- Hungarian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Indonesian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Interlingua: Departimento Alpes-Maritimes
- Italian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Italian: Alpi Marittime
- Italian: Aups Maritims
- Japanese: アルプ=マリティーム県
- Kannada: ಆಲ್ಪೆಸ್-ಮಾರಿಟೈಮ್ಸ್
- Kazakh: Альпі-Маритим
- Kongo: Alpes-Maritimes
- Korean: 알프마리팀
- Korean: 알프마리팀주
- Kurdish: Alpes-Maritimes
- Ladin: Alpes-Maritimes
- Ladino: Alpes Maritimes
- Latin: Alpes Maritimae
- Latin: Alpes maritimae
- Latvian: Piejūras Alpi
- Limburgan: Alpes-Maritimes
- Lithuanian: Pajūrio Alpės
- Lombard: Alpes-Maritimes
- Low German: Alpes-Maritimes
- Luxembourgish: Departement Alpes-Maritimes
- Macedonian: Приморски Алпи
- Malagasy: Alpes-Maritimes
- Malay: Alpes-Maritimes
- Maltese: Alpes-Maritimes
- Marathi: आल्प-मरितीम
- Min Nan Chinese: Alpes-Maritimes
- Northern Frisian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Norwegian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Norwegian Bokmål: Alpes-Maritimes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Alpes-Maritimes
- Occitan (post 1500): Aups Maritimas
- Occitan (post 1500): Aups Maritims
- Ossetian: Денджызгæрон Альпæтæ (департамент)
- Ossetian: Денджызгæрон Альпæтæ
- Pampanga: Alpes-Maritimes
- Persian: آلپ-ماریتیم
- Piemontese: Alp Marìtime
- Piemontese: Dipartiment ëd j'Alp Marìtime
- Polish: Alpy Nadmorskie
- Portuguese: Alpes Marítimos
- Portuguese: Aups Maritims
- Romanian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Romanian: departamentul Alpes-Maritimes
- Russian: Приморские Альпы
- Scots: Alpes-Maritimes
- Scottish Gaelic: Alpes-Maritimes
- Serbian: Приморски Алпи
- Serbo-Croatian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Sinhala: ඇල්ප්ස්-මැරිටයිම්ස්
- Slovak: Alpes-Maritimes
- Slovenian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Spanish: Alpes Maritimos
- Spanish: Alpes Marítimos
- Spanish: Aups Maritims
- Swahili: Alpes-Maritimes
- Swedish: Alpes-Maritimes
- Tajik: Департаменти Алп Приморские
- Tajik: Департаменти Алпи Наздибаҳрӣ
- Tamil: ஆல்ப்ஸ் -மாரிடிம்ஸ்
- Tatar: Диңгез буе Әлпләре
- Telugu: ఆల్పెస్-మారిటైమ్స్
- Thai: จังหวัดอาลป์-มารีตีม
- Turkish: Alpes-Maritimes
- Turkish: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Ukrainian: Приморські Альпи
- Urdu: آلپ-ماریتیم
- Uzbek: Alpes-Maritimes
- Venetian: Alpe Maritime
- Venetian: Alpi Maritime
- Vietnamese: Alpes-Maritimes
- Vlaams: Alpes-Maritimes
- Volapük: Alpes-Maritimes
- Waray (Philippines): Alpes-Maritimes
- Welsh: Alpes-Maritimes
- Western Armenian: Ալբ Մարիթիմ
- Western Frisian: Alpes-Maritimes
- Western Panjabi: ضلع الپس ماریٹائم
- Wu Chinese: 滨海阿尔卑斯省
- Yue Chinese: 濱海阿爾卑斯
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Alpes-Maritimes. Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.