The Côte d'Azur (French: Côte d'Azur, Occitan: Còsta d'Azur) is one of the most famous resort areas in the world and is the name given to the Mediterranean coastal area of France between Cassis (in the Bouches-du-Rhône) and Menton (in Alpes-Maritimes). It covers the eastern costal part of the the department of the Bouches-du-Rhône and the whole costal parts of the Var and of the Alpes-Maritimes, and is flanked on the north by the Southern Alps.
The French Riviera is the anglicised name, quite unknown locally, given to the extreme eastern coastal and hinterland section of the Côte d'Azur, historically extending from Monaco to Menton. It represents the comparatively small French extension of the Italian Riviera, which reaches right round to La Spezia. For geographers, the western limit of the Riviera is Cap Ferrat, lying a short distance east of Nice. This means that the eastern section of the Alpes-Maritimes département forms the French Riviera, but the western section and the Var département do not. Geographical and descriptive references to this small riviera traditionally ignore any implications of the constitutional status of the principality of Monaco
For tourism however, which has its own agenda, the French Riviera is held to embrace additional high-profile attractions lying further west than Cap Ferrat, such as Nice, Antibes and Cannes. But there is no technical basis for that view, which is promoted purely for commercial expedience. The French Riviera should not be confused with the Côte d'Azur. The majority of the content of this article concerns the Côte d'Azur as a whole, rather than simply the small part of it forming the French Riviera.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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