Nontronnais

The Nontronnais is a natural region in the northern Dordogne département and therefore part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It covers the surrounding of the centrally placed subprefecture Nontron. Jules Verne had called the Nontronnais Périgord vert (Green Périgord) referring to the region's lush vegetation. The term Périgord vert is used mainly in tourism, but is not identical with the Nontronnais, which covers a much smaller area.

==Geography== The Nontronnais is situated in the far north of the Dordogne. Administratively it is composed of the Communauté de communes du Périgord vert nontronnais and the Communauté de communes du Haut-Périgord, which have fused by now to become the Communauté de communes du Périgord Nontronnais. It contains 28 communes and was inhabited in 2014 by 15,567 people. The surface area of the Nontronnais is 560.25 square kilometres resulting in a population density of 28 inhabitants per square kilometre — a rather low figure.