Pays de la Loire

The vicinity Pays de la Loire, abridge within the Pays de los angels Loire is a vicinity of the Great West of France collecting the departments of Loire Atlantique, Maine-et Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendee. La prefecture of location is Nantes, which is likewise the maximum populated metropolis. Bordered at the west by the Bay of Biscay, it's miles delimited to the north by means of the Brittany and Normandy areas, to the east by way of the Center Val de Loire with which it stocks the herbal place of the Loire Valley, and to the south with the aid of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine. His call is related to the Loire River, the main river walking thru it.

The place of the Pays de los angeles Loire become created in 1955 via ministerial decree of November 28, 1956 signed below the Fourth Republic at the same time as the alternative regions during the established order of this system areas, published inside the Official Journal of December 6, 19561, of which the skills have been steadily prolonged to give the modern French regions. It isn't like the location of Angers as a consequence of the decree 2727 of the authorities of Vichy in 1941 for the reason that Vendee was now not blanketed in it and that towards the Indre et Loire become there for its occupied component the term Pays de la Loire did now not exist at the time.