Editing Côte-d'Or (section)

== Economy ==
This is a premier [[wine-growing region]] of France. It produces what are arguably the world's finest, and definitely most expensive [[Pinot noir]] and [[Chardonnay]] wines from some of the most rigorously and painstakingly (thanks to the region's many monasteries) classified vineyards in the world. Wine from the Côte-d'Or was a favorite of the emperor Charlemagne. Other crops include cereal grains and potatoes. Sheep and cattle are also raised in the department. The region is famous for [[Dijon mustard]].

There are coal mines and [[heavy industry]], including steel, machinery, and earthenware.
The industries most developed in Côte-d'Or are
* agriculture and food (14% of employees)
* metallurgy and metal manufacture (12% of employees)
* chemicals, rubber and plastics (12% of employees)
* pharmacy
* electrical and electronic components and equipment
* wood and paper industries.
The big works are generally in the conurbation of Dijon although the biggest (CEA Valduc) is at [[Salives]] in the Plateau de Langres. There is also the SEB metal works at Selongey below the plateau on the margin of the Saône plain and the Valourec metalworking group at [[Montbard]] in the west of the department on the River Brenne near its confluence with the Armançon. The [[Pharmaceutical industry]] has shown the greatest growth in recent years. However, since the Dijon employment statistics zone includes the urban and administrative centre of the [[Bourgogne|Burgundy region]], the [[service sector]] is proportionately bigger there in relation to the industrial, than in the other three zones of Côte-d'Or.
* Reference [https://web.archive.org/web/20020605135912/http://www.industrie-bourgogne.org/Site/Template/IndexGeo.php?NumSecteur=0&NumeroPage=0 Industry in Bourgogne website]