Haute-Corse

Haute-Corse
Department
Coat of arms
Location of Haute-Corse in France Location of Haute-Corse in France
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Corsica
Prefecture	Bastia
Subprefectures	Calvi Corte
Government
• President of the General Council	Joseph Castelli (since November 2010)
Area
• Total	4,666 km2 (1,802 sq mi)
Population (1999)
• Total	141,603
• Rank	93rd
• Density	30/km2 (79/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Department number	2B
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	15
Communes	236
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Haute-Corse (French pronunciation: ​[ot.kɔʁs]; Corsican: Corsica suprana) (English: Upper Corsica) is a department of France consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica.

History

The department was formed on 15 September 1975, when the department of Corsica was divided into Upper Corsica (Haute-Corse) and South Corsica (Corse-du-Sud). The department corresponds exactly to the former department of Golo, which existed between 1793 and 1811.

File:Haute-Corse department relief location map.jpg

Map of Haute-Corse

Geography

The department is surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea and on the south by the department of Corse-du-Sud.

Demographics

The people living in this subregion are called "Northeners" (Supranacci).

Culture and politics

The Corsicans are a fiercely independent people. However, a 6 July 2003 referendum on increased autonomy was voted down by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against to 49.02 percent for. This was a major setback for French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to use Corsica as the first step in his decentralization policies.

General Council

The President of the General Council is Paul Giacobbi, who has held the office since 1998.

Party		seats
•	Left Radical Party	9
•	Miscellaneous left	7
•	Union for a Popular Movement	5
•	Miscellaneous right	5
•	Socialist Party	3
•	MoDem	1

Tourism

• 

  Bastia

• 

  Calvi seen from Notre-Dame de la Serra

• Sant'Antonino Vi1JPG.jpg

  Sant'Antonino, one of the most beautiful villages of France

• Saleccia 2004 1.jpg

  Désert des Agriates

• Riviere-restonica.jpg

  Restonica Gorge

See also

• Cantons of the Haute-Corse department
• Communes of the Haute-Corse department
• Arrondissements of the Haute-Corse department

External links

• (French) General Council website
• (English) Haute-Corse at DMOZ
• (French) University of Corsica website
• (English) Corsica Isula