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 parts of Provence, and into Avignon. 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