French Riviera

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French Riviera
Côte d'Azur  (French)
Còsta d'Azur  (Occitan)
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.[1][2] The coast is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France.

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  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.