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Geography
The Auvergne Region is situated in the Southern Central Region of France and is part
of an elevated area consisting of rocky mountains and plateaus called The Massif
Central, which is made up of the following departments: Ardeche, Creuse, Lot, Lozere,
Haute-
The Auvergne is shaped roughly like Wales in the UK, covers an area of around 10,034 square miles (25,988) square metres and is relatively sparsely populated by approximately 1.3 million people. It is an area of great contrasts with the gentle rolling farmland of the Allier to the north, the Regional Liveradois Forest to the East and giving way to the alluring almost other worldly region of the Volcanoes and natural lakes in the Puy de Dome to the South and West which also includes the highest peak in central France called the Puy de Sancy.
The region then leads to the bleak and almost austere, underpopulated area of the Cantal and the department of the Haute Loire which is home to high plateaus and the Gorges of The Allier and Loire. and the four departments of the Auvergne itself, which are explained in more detail later.
The Auvergne has opened up considerably to the rest of the world since the introduction of the A75 Autoroute in 1999, which links Paris and the North to the Auvergne and also more recently the opening of the A86 which links the region with Bordeaux and the West of France.
