The
comarca
A ''comarca'' (, or , or ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, ...
of Roussillon ( ca, Rosselló) is a
historical Catalan comarca of
Northern Catalonia, now part of the
French department of
Pyrénées-Orientales
Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ...
. Its capital is
Perpignan
Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...
(Catalan: ''Perpinyà'').
Rosselló has an area of 1,498
km²
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1 km2 is equa ...
. In 1990, Rosselló had a
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
of 303,850 inhabitants, with a density of 202.8 people per km².
It comprises most of the
historic county and province of
Roussillon.
See also
*
Counts of Roussillon
This is a list of the counts of Roussillon ( ca, Comtes de Rosselló, , ) who ruled over the eponymous County of Roussillon.
Carolingian counts
These counts were nominated by the Carolingian kings of France, of whom they were vassals.
*Gaucelm (81 ...
External links
El Rosselló''in Catalan Encyclopaedia.''
Geography of Pyrénées-Orientales
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