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Catalan Countries
The term Catalan Regions (Catalan: Comunits Catalans).
The Catalan Regions would include:
- Andorra in the Pyrenees
- Inside the current territory of Spain:
- the Balearic Islands (Islas Baleares)
- Catalonia (Cataluña)
- Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana)
- Inside the current territory of France:
- Roussillon (Rosellón)
This territory does not coincide exactly with the places where Catalan is the native language. For example, in the north-western region of Catalonia known as Val d'Aran (Valle de Arán), a dialect of Occitan is spoken and considered the native language, although Spanish and Catalan are also spoken. In some western and south-western places in the Autonomous Community of Valencia, only Spanish is spoken. The Catalan Regions are sometimes referred to as el pi de les tres branques (the three-branched pine, in Catalan) for its territory can be roughly divided in three parts:
- The former kingdom of Majorca
- The former kingdom of Valencia
- The former Catalonia, comprising the Roussillon, and the current Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia.
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