What is Northern Catalonia?
[[Image:Canigó.jpeg|thumb|right|The [[Canigou]] (2785&nbsp;m) seen from near Perpignan]] '''Northern Catalonia''' ({{lang-ca|Catalunya Nord}}, {{lang-fr|Catalogne Nord}}) is a name that sometimes is used, mainly in [[Catalonia|Catalan]] [[writing]]s, to refer to the [[territory]] given to [[France]] by [[Spain]] in 1659. The area corresponds approximately to the modern [[France|French]] [[Departments of France|''département'']] of the [[Pyrénées-Orientales]]. The [[French language|French]] name, ''Catalogne Nord'', is used nowadays, although less often than the more [[Politics|politically]] neutral '''[[Roussillon]]''' (in reference to the pre-[[French Revolution|Revolutionary]] [[province]]). Sometimes '''French Catalonia''' is also used. == Geography == Northern Catalonia forms a [[triangle]] between the [[Pyrenees]] to the south, the [[Corbières (mountains)|Corbières]] to the north-west and the [[Mediterranean Sea]] to the east. The [[Plain]] of Roussillon in the east, by far the area where more people live, is formed by the [[floodplain]]s of the [[Tech (river)|Tech]], [[Têt (river)|Têt]] and [[Agly]] rivers ({{lang-ca|Tec, Tet, Aglí}}). The districts of [[Vallespir]] and [[Conflent]] cover the upper valleys of the Tech and the Têt respectively. The mountain [[Canigou|Le Canigou]] ({{lang-ca|Canigó}}), {{Convert|2784|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}, dominates much of the territory. The climate is of the [[Mediterranean climate|Mediterranean type]], with hot, dry summers and winters which are relatively mild, at least on the Roussillon plain where snow is rare. More of a quarter of the population of Northern Catalonia is in the city of [[Perpignan]] ({{lang-ca|Perpinyà}}).<ref name=insee>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/recensement/populations-legales/france-departements.asp |title=Populations légales 2010 |publisher=Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE |language=French |accessdate=5 July 2013|date= }}</ref> Perpignan is the only important [[Administration|admini