What is the capital of the French region of Limousin?
Limousin also part of the larger Occitania region. The modern region of Limousin is essentially composed of two historical French provinces: Beside these two main provinces, Limousin is also composed of small parts of other former provinces: Today the province of Limousin is the most populous part of the Limousin region. Limoges, the historical capital and largest city of the province of Limousin, is the capital of the Limousin administrative region. With a slowly rising population of just under 750,000, Limousin is the second-least populous region in Metropolitan France after Corsica. The population of Limousin is aging and, until 1999, was
Limousin Limousin Limousin (; ) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised three departments: Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne. Situated mostly in the south central French Massif Central, Limousin had (in 2010) 742,770 inhabitants spread out on nearly 17,000 km², making it the least populated region of metropolitan France. Forming part of the southwest of the country, Limousin is bordered by the regions of Centre-Val de Loire to the north, Poitou-Charentes and Aquitaine to the west, Midi-Pyrénées to the south and Auvergne to the east. Limousin is