Centre-Val
de Loire, Centre-Loire Valley or Centre Region as it was
known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative
regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley
in the interior of the country, with a population of
2,572,853 as of 2018. Its prefecture is Orléans, and its
largest city is Tours. Like many contemporary regions
of France, the region of Centre-Val de Loire was created
from parts of historical provinces: Touraine, Orléanais
and Berry. First, the name Centre was chosen by the
government purely on the basis of geography, in
reference to its location in northwest-central France.
Centre-Val-de-Loire borders the most of all eighteen
regions in France. The bordering regions are Normandy on
the northwest, Île-de-France on the northeast,
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté on the east,
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on the southeast,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine on the southwest and Pays de la Loire
on the west. Centre-Val de Loire comprises six
departments: Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire,
Loir-et-Cher and Loiret.
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