Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maghrebi. This is the second-highest rate after Île-de-France (Greater Paris), where the figure was around 56%. Since the 1960s, the region has been a major immigration centre into France, mostly due to Mediterranean immigration from countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is divided into 6 departments. These are Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhone, Var and Vaucluse. The largest cities in the region are Marseille (administrative capital city of the region), Nice, Toulon, and Aix-en-Provence, each with a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants at the 1999 census. Along with Marseille, Nice is the
Avignon – Provence Airport Avignon – Provence Airport Avignon Provence Airport (, ) is an airport located in the city of Avignon and west of Caumont-sur-Durance, in the Vaucluse department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France. The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 17/35 which measures . It also has a two parallel grass runways: 17R/35L measuring and 17L/35R measuring . The shorter grass runway is for use by ultralight aircraft. All scheduled flights out of Avignon airport are seasonal flights to the UK. There are rapid bus connections to several even distant