Yonne

Yonne
Image:Blason89.PNG
Coat of arms of the Yonne department
Location
Image:Yonne-Position.svg
Administration
Department number:	89
Region:	Bourgogne
Prefecture:	Auxerre
Subprefectures:	Avallon Sens
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	42
Communes:	454
President of the General Council:	Henri de Raincourt
Statistics
Population	Ranked 67th
-1999	333,221
Population density:	45/km²
Land area¹:	7427 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Yonne is a French department named after the Yonne River. It is one of the four constituent departments of Bourgogne (Burgundy) in eastern France and its prefecture (capital) is Auxerre. Its official number is 89.

It elects three members of parliament to the National Assembly - in the 2002-7 parliamentary term, all three are drawn from the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Its two senators also represent the UMP.

See also

Internal links

• Cantons of the Yonne department
• Communes of the Yonne department
• Arrondissements of the Yonne department

External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website
• (English) Yonne at the Open Directory Project

This Bourgogne geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

v • d • e Departments of France

Ain • Aisne • Allier • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence • Hautes-Alpes • Alpes-Maritimes • Ardèche • Ardennes • Ariège • Aube • Aude • Aveyron • Bouches-du-Rhône • Calvados • Cantal • Charente • Charente-Maritime • Cher • Corrèze • Corse-du-Sud • Haute-Corse • Côte-d'Or • Côtes-d'Armor • Creuse • Dordogne • Doubs • Drôme • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistère • Gard • Haute-Garonne • Gers • Gironde • Hérault • Ille-et-Vilaine • Indre • Indre-et-Loire • Isère • Jura • Landes • Loir-et-Cher • Loire • Haute-Loire • Loire-Atlantique • Loiret • Lot • Lot-et-Garonne • Lozère • Maine-et-Loire • Manche • Marne • Haute-Marne • Mayenne • Meurthe-et-Moselle • Meuse • Morbihan • Moselle • Nièvre • Nord • Oise • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dôme • Pyrénées-Atlantiques • Hautes-Pyrénées • Pyrénées-Orientales • Bas-Rhin • Haut-Rhin • Rhône • Haute-Saône • Saône-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Haute-Savoie • Paris • Seine-Maritime • Seine-et-Marne • Yvelines • Deux-Sèvres • Somme • Tarn • Tarn-et-Garonne • Var • Vaucluse • Vendée • Vienne • Haute-Vienne • Vosges • Yonne • Territoire de Belfort • Essonne • Hauts-de-Seine • Seine-Saint-Denis • Val-de-Marne • Val-d'Oise Overseas departments: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Réunion

ar:يون

an:Yonne frp:Yona (dèpartement) br:Yonne (departamant) bg:Йон (департамент) ca:Yonne cv:Йонна (департамент) ceb:Yonne da:Yonne (departement) de:Yonne (Département) el:Γιόν es:Yonne eo:Yonne eu:Yonne fr:Yonne id:Yonne it:Yonne he:יון (מחוז בצרפת) pam:Yonne lad:Yonne la:Icauna (praefectura Franciae) lb:Departement Yonne lt:Jona (departamentas) nl:Yonne (departement) ja:ヨンヌ県 no:Yonne (departement) nn:Yonne oc:Yonne (departament) nds:Yonne pl:Yonne pt:Yonne ro:Yonne ru:Йонна sk:Yonne (departement) sl:Yonne (departma) sr:Јон (департман) fi:Yonne sv:Yonne tg:Департаменти Йонна