Northern Basque Country: indicators

Boundaries of the Northern Basque Country
Province of Labourd
Province of Soule
Province of Lower Navarre

Source: CodeSyntax / www.ahotsak.com

A territory at the heart of a euro-region

A privileged cross-border situation (with the Autonomous Region of Euskadi and the Chartered Community of Navarre)
A major point of transit for north/south European exchanges: 52 million tons of merchandise (by road and rail), A European freight centre (600 000 tons by combined rail/road)
The port of Bayonne: 9th port in France, serving the regional economy (4 million tons of merchandise)

Source: www.lurraldea.net

Northern Basque Country into Basque Country All the provinces

Demographic profiles of constituencies

Source: www.lurraldea.net

Probable evolution of population around 2020

Source: www.lurraldea.net

Distribution of employment according to sector

Source: www.lurraldea.net

Statistic portrait

Gaindegia, the observatory for the economic and social development of the Basque Country works for greater recognition of this territory. In December the observatory published a description of the Northern Basque Country's economy and society (in four languages).

Download "+idata - A snapshot of the Northern Basque Country"
(PDF - 1,6 Mo)
Download - "A snapshot of the Northern Basque Country" (full version in basque and french) (pdf - 1,4 Mo)

More about Iparralde...

Download - "Le Pays Basque en chiffres" (in french and euskara) (pdf - 3,46Mo)
Download - Charte de développement durable de la montagne basque(in french and euskara). Association des commissions syndicales de la montagne basque, 2008. (pdf - 6,09 Mo)

The Basque language in Iparralde

A brief description for the Northern Basque Country of the results of the sociolinguistic survey carried out in 2006.

2006 sociolinguistic survey