Landes (department)

Landes Lanas (Occitan) Landak (Basque)
Department of France
Prefecture building in Mont-de-Marsan
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Landes in France
Coordinates: 44°0′N 0°50′W / 44.000°N 0.833°W / 44.000; -0.833
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Prefecture	Mont-de-Marsan
Subprefecture	Dax
Government
• President of the Departmental Council	Xavier Fortinon[1] (PS)
Area 1
• Total	9,243 km2 (3,569 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	422,976
• Rank	59th
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number	40
Arrondissements	2
Cantons	15
Communes	327
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Landes (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃d] ^ⓘ; Gascon and Occitan: Lanas [ˈlanəs]; Basque: Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It also borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-east, and Gironde to the north. Located on the Atlantic coast, it had a population of 413,690 as of 2019.^[3] Its prefecture is Mont-de-Marsan.

The department is the second-largest department in France and it covers the Forest of Landes. The southwestern part of the department is part of the wider conurbation of Biarritz and Bayonne across the Pyrénées-Atlantique border.