French Riviera

French Riviera
Côte d'Azur  (French)
Còsta d'Azur  (Occitan)
Riviera
From top down, left to right: a view of Èze with Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the background, city centre of Nice, old town of Saint-Tropez, Monte Carlo Casino in the Principality of Monaco
Country France and  Monaco
Websitecotedazurfrance.fr

The French Riviera (known in French as the Côte d'Azur [kot dazyʁ]; Occitan: Còsta d'Azur [ˈkɔstɔ daˈzyʀ]) is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually seen as a part of Toulon, Le Lavandou or Saint-Tropez in the west to Menton at the France–Italy border in the east. The coast is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France.

References

  1. ↑ "Côte d'Azur, côte méditerranéenne française entre Cassis et Menton" ("Côte d'Azur, French Mediterranean coast between Cassis and Toulon") in Dictionnaire Hachette encyclopédique (2000), p. 448.
  2. ↑ "Côte d'Azur, Partie orientale du littoral français, sur la Méditerranée, de Cassis à Menton" ("Côte d'Azur, Eastern part of the French coast, on the Mediterranean, from Cassis to Menton"), in Le Petit Larousse illustré (2005), p. 1297.