Bordeaux is a port ceety on the Garonne River in soothwast Fraunce, wi an estimatit (2008) population o 250,082. The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan aurie, haes a population o 1,010,000 an constitutes the saxt-lairgest urban aurie in Fraunce. It is the caipital o the region o New Aquitaine, as well as the prefectur o the Gironde depairtment. Its inhabitants are cried Bordelais.