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Languedoc ​Roussillon

​​The area known as "Languedoc" covered a large part of southern France; Roussillon is a much smaller area, being more or less the area covered by the Eastern Pyrenees department where people still speak Catalan as well as French.​ The major cities in the region are Montpellier, Nimes, Narbonne, Sete, Perpignan and the medieval city of Carcassonne listed by Unesco. Today, the coast of Languedoc is characterised by long sandy beaches, often with plenty of space, and a modern tourist infrastructure, with twentieth-century resorts such as Cap d'Agde, Palavas, or Narbonne Plage. Stretching from the Mediterranean sea to the Atlantic Ocean, there is a man made waterway called Canal du Midi or Canal des Deux Mers which is also listed by Unesco and very famous for river cruises.