Yonne
Coat of arms of the Yonne department
Location
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. The term administration, as used in the context of Government, differs according to Jurisdiction. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Bourgogne ( English: Burgundy is one of the 26 regions of France. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' Auxerre (pronounced) is a commune in the Bourgogne region of north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Avallon is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in north-central France. History Caesar mentions Agedincum in the territory of the Senones several times in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico, and the city retains The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The 3 arrondissements of the Yonne department are Arrondissement of Auxerre, ( prefecture of the Yonne department The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The following is the list of the 42 cantons of the Yonne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: Arrondissement The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The following is a list of the 454 communes of the Yonne département in France. In France, the President of the General Council (French Président du conseil général) is the locally-elected head of the General Council, the assembly As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different geographical regions we list here areas between 1000 km2 and 10000 km2 An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open

Yonne is a French department named after the Yonne River. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division The Yonne is a River in France, left Tributary of the Seine. It is 292 km long It is one of the four constituent departments of Bourgogne (Burgundy) in eastern France and its prefecture (capital) is Auxerre. Bourgogne ( English: Burgundy is one of the 26 regions of France. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' Auxerre (pronounced) is a commune in the Bourgogne region of north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. 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). The French National Assembly. The other is the Senate ( “Sénat”) Its two senators also represent the UMP. The Senate (Sénat is the Upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a president.

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

The following is the list of the 42 cantons of the Yonne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: Arrondissement The following is a list of the 454 communes of the Yonne département in France. The 3 arrondissements of the Yonne department are Arrondissement of Auxerre, ( prefecture of the Yonne department The Open Directory Project ( ODP) also known as dmoz (from directory

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