Poitou-Charentes

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Poitou-Charentes
Region of France
Flag Coat of arms
Country	France
Dissolved	2016-01-01
Prefecture	Poitiers
Departments	4 Charente (16) Charente-Maritime (17) Deux-Sèvres (79) Vienne (86)
Government
• President	Jean-François Macaire (PS)
Area
• Total	25,809 km2 (9,965 sq mi)
Population  (2007-01-01)
• Total	1,722,000
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
GDP [1]
• Total	€54.764 billion
• Per capita	€30,300
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	FR-T
NUTS Region	FR5
Website	poitou-charentes.fr

Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation: [pwatu ʃaʁɑ̃t] ^ⓘ; Occitan: Peitau-Charantas; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Poetou-Chérentes) was an administrative region on the southwest coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.^[2] It comprised four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois, Aunis, Saintonge and Poitou.

Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan.

Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on January 1, 2016.