Anglet is a town and commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwest France. Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a department in the southwest of France which takes its name from the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Pyrénées-Atlantiques is part of the Aquitaine region of Southwest France. It is bordered by the Landes, Hautes-Pyrénées , Gers departments and the Bay of Biscay. The parts of the department that were part of Guyenne and Béarn have a culture heavily influenced by the Basques. Both the Gascon language and the Basque language are indigenous to the region here. Gascon is an Occitan language that is more closely related to Catalan than it is to French. Basque is a language isolate. Geographic Information   Closest Towns Town Anglet   Biarritz at 3.8 km (7 mn) Insee code 64024   Bayonne at 4.3 km (9 mn) Postcode 64600   Saint-Pierre-d'Irube at 6.5 km (13 mn) Latitude 43.4833312   Bassussarry at 6.8 km (9 mn) Longitude -1.5333325   Arbonne at 7.3 km (9 mn) Altitude     Arcangues at 7.9 km (11 mn) Surface 26.93 km2   Bidart at 8.7 km (11 mn) Population 37900 inhabitants   Boucau at 9 km (17 mn) Density 1407 inhabitants/km2   Tarnos at 10.5 km (19 mn) Administrative center Pau (at 118 km, 75 mn)   Guéthary at 11.2 km (15 mn) Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques   Ahetze at 12.1 km (14 mn) Region Aquitaine     The sandy coast which commences 200 km to the North at the Pointe de Grave, the end of the Gironde estuary, ends here. Numerous dikes mark the Anglet shoreline.