Labourd
Labourd (Lapurdi in
Basque; from
Latin Lapurdum, Labord in Gascon) is a former
French province and part of the present-day
Pyrénées Atlantiques département. It is historically one of the seven provinces of the traditional
Basque Country.Labourd extends from the
Pyrenees to the river
Adour, along the
Bay of Biscay. To the south is Gipuzkoa and
Navarre in
Spain, to the east is
Basse-Navarre, to the north are the
Landes. It has an area of almost 900 km² and a population of over 200,000, the most populous of the three French Basque provinces. Over 25% of the inhabitants speak Basque. Labourd has also long had a Gascon-speaking tradition, noticeably next to the banks of the river Adour but also more diffusedly throughout the whole viscounty.
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