Saltèrne―Détroit

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Saltèrne—Détroit

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Motto: In duplo maximum (Latin)
(Twice the greatest)
Capital
and largest city
Amis
Official languagesFrench
Demonym(s)Saltèrois
GovernmentConstitutional parliamentary democracy
• Premier
Olivier Quint (D)
• Deputy Premier
Nicolas Jean Raoult (D)
• President of the Assembly
Anne Rigal (D)
LegislatureSaltèrne—Détroit Assembly
Province of Ainin
• Creation from Saltèrne and Détroit
1971
• Passage of the Twenty-third Amendment
1986
Area
• Total
161,800 km2 (62,500 sq mi)
• Water (%)
7.25
Population
• 2016 estimate
19,105,500 (8th)
• 2014 census
18,239,419
• Density
112.7/km2 (291.9/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)2014 estimate
• Total
$645 billion (8th)
• Per capita
$35,340 (8th)
GDP (nominal)2015 estimate
• Total
$680 billion (7th)
• Per capita
$37,284 (7th)
Gini (2014)37.8
medium
HDI (2014)0.833
very high
Time zoneST+2:00
Internet TLD.sd.ai

Saltèrne—Détroit (French: [sal.tɛʁn de.tʁwa]) is a province of Ainin. With a geographic extent largely overlapping with the Saltèrne Valley and the basin of the Amis River, the province is bounded to the west and south by the Saltèrne Mountains, to the east by the Strait of Tourres and to the north by Ponant. It also shares maritime borders with Isle-Royale and land borders with Côte-Dorée, Radisson―Pays-de-l'Est and Montagnes, although there are no road connections to the last.

The province was created as part of the provincial reorganisation of 1971, when the province of Saltèrne was divided, with its western half being joined to parts of southern Linaque to form Montagnes, and the eastern half joining the extant province of Détroit to form Saltèrne—Détroit. The province's hyphenated name owes to its origin as the merger of these two historic provinces. Covering an approximate 15% of the country's landmass, Saltèrne—Détroit is the largest province in Ainin by land area and has immense ecological and climatological diversity, ranging from tropical rainforests to alpine permafrost.

Its capital and largest city is Amis, which is also its largest metropolitan area. Other major cities include Del, a suburb of Huimont that is home to Esquarium's longest transoceanic bridge and Lac-Saint-Sauveur, the administrative seat of the former Saltèrne province. Template:Provinces of Ainin