Haute-Vienne (French pronunciation: [ot vjɛn]; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The neighbouring departments are Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre.
There are three arrondissements (administrative districts) in the department; the arrondissement of Limoges, the seat of which is Limoges; the arrondissement of Bellac, the seat of which is Bellac, some 45 km (28 mi) to the northwest of Limoges; and the arrondissement of Rochechouart, with its seat, Rochechouart to the west of Limoges. The prefecture and largest city in the department is Limoges, the other towns in the department each having fewer than twenty thousand inhabitants.... Wikipedia ()