| Côte-d'Or | |
| Native Name Lang: | fr |
| Type: | Department of France |
| Coordinates: | 47.4167°N 54°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | France |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Seat Type: | Prefecture |
| Seat: | Dijon |
| Parts Type: | Subprefectures |
| Parts Style: | para |
| P1: | Beaune Montbard |
| Leader Party: | UDI |
| Leader Title: | President of the Departmental Council |
| Leader Name: | François Sauvadet[1] |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 8763 |
| Elevation Max M: | 723 |
| Population Rank: | 50th |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Demonyms: | côte-d'oriens, costaloriens |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Department number |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 21 |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Arrondissements |
| Blank Info Sec2: | 3 |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Cantons |
| Blank1 Info Sec2: | 23 |
| Blank2 Name Sec2: | Communes |
| Blank2 Info Sec2: | 698 |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Footnotes: | French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2 |
Côte-d'Or (in French pronounced as /kot dɔʁ/) is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.[2] Its prefecture is Dijon and subprefectures are Beaune and Montbard.
Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy.
The department is part of the current region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is surrounded by the departments of Yonne, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Jura, Aube, Haute-Saône, and Haute-Marne.
A chain of hills called the Plateau de Langres runs from north-east to south-west through the department to the north of Dijon and continues south-westwards as the Côte d'Or escarpment, from which the department takes its name. It is the south-east facing slope of this escarpment which is the site of the celebrated Burgundy vineyards. To the west of the Plateau de Langres, towards Champagne, lies the densely wooded district of Châtillonais. To the south-east of the plateau and escarpment, the department lies in the broad, flat-bottomed valley of the middle course of the Saône.[3]
Rivers include:
The climate of the department is continental, with abundant rain on the west side of the central range.
The most populous commune is Dijon, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants:[2]
| Commune | Population (2019) | |
|---|---|---|
| Dijon | 158,002 | |
| Beaune | 20,551 | |
| Chenôve | 14,025 | |
| Talant | 11,713 | |
| Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur | 11,123 |
The inhabitants of the department are called Costaloriens.
Population development since 1791:
See also: Departmental Council of Côte-d'Or. The President of the Departmental Council is François Sauvadet of the Union of Democrats and Independents.
| Party | seats | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | ||
| • | 11 | |
| • | 8 | |
| 6 | ||
| 3 | ||
| • | 2 | |
| • | 1 | |
This is a premier wine-growing region of France. It produces what are arguably the world's finest, and definitely most expensive Pinot noir and Chardonnay wines from some of the most rigorously and painstakingly (thanks to the region's many monasteries) classified vineyards in the world. Wine from the Côte-d'Or was a favorite of the emperor Charlemagne. Other crops include cereal grains and potatoes. Sheep and cattle are also raised in the department. The region is famous for Dijon mustard.
There are coal mines and heavy industry, including steel, machinery, and earthenware.The industries most developed in Côte-d'Or are
The big works are generally in the conurbation of Dijon although biggest (CEA Valduc) is at Salives in the Plateau de Langres. There is also the SEB metal works at Selongey below the plateau on the margin of the Saône plain and the Valourec metalworking group at Montbard in the west of the department on the River Brenne near its confluence with the Armançon.The Pharmaceutical industry has shown the greatest growth in recent years.However, since the Dijon employment statistics zone includes the urban and administrative centre of the Burgundy region, the service sector is proportionately bigger there in relation to the industrial, than in the other three zones of Côte-d'Or.
Some of the major tourist attractions are the Gothic abbey church of Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye and the 11th-century Romanesque abbey church at Saulieu, as well the 12th-century Château de Bussy Rabutin at Bussy-le-Grand.[3] The Abbey of Cîteaux, headquarters of the Cistercian Order, lies to the east of Nuits-Saint-Georges in the south of the department.