Comarques of Northern Catalonia

Northern Catalonia is traditionally divided into five historical comarques (counties).

[1][2] These counties formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until the territory was incorporated into France following the Treaty of the Pyrenees, with Cerdanya county split between Spain and France.

[3] After the French Revolution, the current department of Pyrénées-Orientales was created, comprising the Northern Catalan counties along with part of the Occitan parçan of Fenouillèdes (Fenolhedés).

[4] Although this subdivision finds widespread use in Catalan culture and linguistics,[2] as well as in Catalan-language works and sources in general,[5][6][7][8] it has no administrative status (unlike in Southern Catalonia, where counties are fully official and administrative), as the French state officially subdivides the department into three arrondissements and 31 cantons.

[9] (in the department)