What is "haute-vienne"

Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the river Vienne. It is one of the 12 departments that together constitute the French region of Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes. The neighbouring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre.

There are three arrondissements (administrative regions) in the department; the Arrondissement of Limoges, the capital of which is Limoges; the Arrondissement of Bellac, the capital of which is Bellac, some to the northwest of Limoges; and the Arrondissement of Rochechouart, with its capital, Rochechouart to the west of Limoges. The chief and largest city in the department is Limoges, the other towns in the department each having fewer than twenty thousand inhabitants.