Landes
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Prefecture building in Mont-de-Marsan | |
![]() Location of Landes in France | |
Coordinates: 44°0′N 0°50′W / 44.000°N 0.833°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Prefecture | Mont-de-Marsan |
Subprefecture | Dax |
Government | |
• President of the Departmental Council | Xavier Fortinon[1] (PS) |
Area | |
• Total | 9,243 km2 (3,569 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 422,976 |
• Rank | 59th |
• Density | 46/km2 (120/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Department number | 40 |
Arrondissements | 2 |
Cantons | 15 |
Communes | 327 |
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2 |
Landes (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃d] ; Gascon and Occitan: Lanas [ˈlanəs]; Basque: Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It also borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-east, and Gironde to the north. Located on the Atlantic coast, it had a population of 413,690 as of 2019.[3] Its prefecture is Mont-de-Marsan.
The department is the second-largest department in France and it covers the Forest of Landes. The southwestern part of the department is part of the wider conurbation of Biarritz and Bayonne across the Pyrénées-Atlantique border.