Coordinates: 43°29′21″N 0°46′11″W / 43.4892°N 0.7697°W / 43.4892; -0.7697
Orthez (Gascon Ortès) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
It lies 40 km NW of Pau on the Southern railway to Bayonne. The town also encompasses the small village of Sainte-Suzanne thus residents of the town are called either Orthéziens or Sainte-Suzannais. The population figures from 1999 give the population of the commune at 10,121 and of the canton at 16,168. In 1906, the town had 4,159 and the commune had 6,254.
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