Geography of Burgundy

With the northern , low Burgundy is an area of sedimentary plains: it includes the agricultural Sénonais and the Pays of forest Othe, which dominates the valleys of the Yonne and the Armançon.

With the is , the countries of the the Saone correspond to plains of collapse covered with fatty meadows and fields (corn, corn, oléoprotéagineux, truck farming).

With the center , the Burgundian plates, limestones, incline themselves gently towards the North-West, but drop abruptly towards south-east; they include/understand the Auxerrois, platform rocky where the vine (Chablis) was established, the Tonnerrois, of lower altitude, the Châtillonais, poor country where agriculture knows difficulties, the Dijonese crossroads and the Côte of Gold, last abrupt escarpment of the “Mountain”, which carries one of the most famous vineyards of France. The Morvan, forest old solid mass, is surrounded by argillaceous plains where the breeding is practiced, incised by the carboniferous depression of Dheune-Bourbince.

On the southern finally, the Mâconnais, country of mixed-farming, breeding and vineyard, is pressed on the first buttresses of the Massif Central.

Hydrography

Principal agglomerations

  • Population in 1999
    • Dijon: 236.953
    • Chalon-sur-Saône: 75.447
    • Nevers: 57.515
    • Mâcon : 46.624
    • Montceau-the-Mines: 43.438
    • Auxerre: 40.945
    • Direction: 38.717
    • Creusot: 37.576
    • Beaune: 21.923

If the Burgundian area does not count important agglomeration, it is partly because it is under the influence of its two large neighbors, Paris in north and Lyon in the south.

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