Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) is one of the 27 régions of France.

It is made up of:

-the former French province of Provence ;

-the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin ;

-the former Sardinian-Piedmontese county of Nice, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera, and in French as the Côte d'Azur ;

-the southeastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps.

It encompasses six départements in south-eastern France, bounded to the east by the Italian border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea to the north by Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Languedoc-Roussillon, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.

Notable cities and places in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur include: Aix-en-Provence, Antibes, Apt, Arles, Avignon, Les Baux de Provence, Cannes, Cassis, Cavaillon, Digne-les-Bains, Frejus, Grasse, Juan-les-Pins, Marseille, Menton, Nice, Orange, Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saint-Tropez, Tende, Toulon, Vence.