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The Côte d'Azur (in Provençal: Couosto d'Azur [ˈkɔst' daˈzyʁ] or [ˈkwast' daˈzyʁ]) is a choronym of literary origin designating a portion to the east of the French Mediterranean coast, with the principality of Monaco. We will specify the French Riviera, up to Cape Mortolà, then the Ligurian Riviera up to Porto-Maurizio, a portion that the Italians call Riviera dei Fiori, literally "the Shore of Flowers" in reference to the horticultural production, numerous between Ventimiglia and Sanremo, and the flower gardens laid out mainly by English tourists on holiday in the 19th century, peculiarities that are also found as far west as Hyères, because the entire stretch of coast between Cap des Gardéens Carqueiranne and the province of Imperia experienced the first tourist epic with the arrival of the railway and the first tourists at the end of the 1800s.

This is a term coined in 1887 by Stéphen Liégeard in his book entitled: La Côte d'Azur, a tourist choronym used to describe his trip along the coasts of Provence and Liguria, more precisely from Marseille to Genoa. The lack of awareness of Stéphen Liégeard's work, as well as the desire of certain political figures to centralize tourism in specific territories, resulted in a variable number of demarcations of the Côte d'Azur, generally excluding Liguria. The exclusion of the latter is explained by its being Italian and because the term Ligurian Riviera is generalized alongside the name Liégeard in France.

Since the Côte d'Azur is not strictly speaking a territory, the names of the inhabitants are those of the departments and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, although the term "Azuréen" is commonly used to refer to the Maralpins (inhabitants of the Alpes-Maritimes department) on its Côte d'Azur coastal strip (from Menton to Théoule-sur-Mer pointe Notre-Dame), but however, the local media generally include at least the east of the Var department in their coverage (BFM Nice-Côte-d'Azur and France 3 Côte d'Azur). Given the exchanges between the Nice metropolitan area, the principality of Monaco, the districts of Grasse and Draguignan, we can more legitimately consider that the Côte d'Azur is a territorial area extending from the Massif des Maures to the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula, to be broad.

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