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Bordeaux, world capital of wine.
Bordeaux is the 9th largest city in France with 250,000 inhabitants but it has the 6th largest metro area (1,010,000) that reaches the Atlantic ocean at the Bay of Arcachon over 60km away. It is situated in the soutwest of France (500km from Paris) along a curve of the Garonne river in the Aquitaine region and the Gironde department.
As a port city Bordeaux developed mainly on the west side of the Garonne upon a marsh plain. In the last decades the city was modernised with the removal of most harbor activities from the docks (though cruise ships still dock right in the city center) and the construction of several tram lines. A large part of the city center known as «le Port de la Lune» (the Port of the Moon due to the crescent shape of the river) has been classified by the UNESCO as a «an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble of the 18th century».
A few urban fun facts about Bordeaux : the «rue Sainte Catherine» is the longest pedestrian shopping strip in Europe with 1.2km, the «Place des Quinconces» is the (disputed) largest city square in Europe with 126,000 square meters and it also has the longest ring road in France (45km).
The map is 20x20km with 25 large cities roughly corresponding to Bordeaux's urban area (800,000 inhabitants regrouped ine the CUB (Urban Community of Bordeaux) and the central tile also roughly corresponding to the center of Bordeaux itself.
It is scaled and accurate though the elevation is not a 100% accurate but a bit simplified. The zip contains the config, the map in 16bits png (best used with SC4Terraformer or similar software) and the images attached (an in-game view, a terrain map with city limits, a satellite image with the config city limits as well).
I made this map in a series of french city maps that I'm doing as there was no map of the city here so far (there is a Bordeaux map on the STEX that is not Bordeaux actually) and because it is a beautiful city and an interesting area for a SC4 city as well.
I hope you'll like it, don't hesitate if you have any comment.
By the way I haven't decided what the next step of my SC4 mapping "Tour de France" will be between Toulouse, Nantes or Montpellier so if you have a favorite just say it.
