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La Possession

La Possession

La Possession is a commune in the overseas department of . It is located in the northwestern part of the island of Réunion, between the capital of and the commune of .
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  • Type: Town with 35,200 residents
  • Description: commune in La Réunion, France
  • Also known as: “Possession”
  • Postal codes: 97419 and 97419
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption and Stade Youri-Gagarine.

Church
Photo: Thierry Caro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Stadium
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is a stadium.

Power station
Photo: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a power station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Grande Chaloupe and Dos d’Âne.

Village
is a village on the island of , an overseas region of France in the Indian Ocean, located on its northern coast between and La Possession. It lies within the Ravine de Important Bird Area. is situated 5 km northeast of La Possession.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 8 km southeast of La Possession.

Locality
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is a locality, which is situated 8 km east of La Possession.

La Possession

Latitude
-20.92697° or 20° 55′ 37″ south
Longitude
55.33628° or 55° 20′ 11″ east
Population
35,200
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RE POS
Open location code
5HFQ38FP+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 853602239
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
935691
Wiki­data ID
Q429770
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Possession” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Possession”
  • Aragonese: “La Possession”
  • Arpitan: “La Possession”
  • Asturian: “La Possession”
  • Bambara: “La Possession”
  • Basque: “La Possession”
  • Bavarian: “La Possession”
  • Breton: “La Possession”
  • Cajun French: “La Possession”
  • Catalan: “La Possession”
  • Cebuano: “La Possession”
  • Chechen: “Ла-Поссесьйон”
  • Chinese: “拉波塞雄”
  • Chinese: “拉波西申”
  • Corsican: “La Possession”
  • Croatian: “La Possession”
  • Czech: “La Possession”
  • Dagbani: “La Possession”
  • Danish: “La Possession”
  • Dutch: “La Possession”
  • Esperanto: “La Posedaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “La Possession”
  • Estonian: “La Possession”
  • Faroese: “La Possession”
  • Finnish: “La Possession”
  • French: “La Possession (La Réunion)”
  • French: “La Possession (Réunion)”
  • French: “La Possession”
  • Friulian: “La Possession”
  • Galician: “La Possession”
  • German: “La Possession”
  • Greek: “Λα Ποσεσιόν”
  • Hungarian: “La Possession”
  • Icelandic: “La Possession”
  • Ido: “La Possession”
  • Indonesian: “La Possession”
  • Interlingua: “La Possession”
  • Interlingue: “La Possession”
  • Irish: “La Possession”
  • Italian: “La Possession”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “La Possession”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ポゼション”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ポゼッション”
  • Kabyle: “La Possession”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Possession”
  • Kongo: “La Possession”
  • Ladin: “La Possession”
  • Latvian: “La Possession”
  • Ligurian: “La Possession”
  • Limburgan: “La Possession”
  • Lithuanian: “La Possession”
  • Low German: “La Possession”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Possession”
  • Mainfränkisch: “La Possession”
  • Malagasy: “La Possession”
  • Malay: “La Possession”
  • Mazanderani: “لپوسسیون”
  • Minangkabau: “La Possession”
  • Narom: “La Possession”
  • Neapolitan: “La Possession”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Possession”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Possession”
  • Norwegian: “La Possession”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Possession”
  • Papiamento: “La Possession”
  • Persian: “لپوسسیون”
  • Picard: “La Possession”
  • Piemontese: “La Possession”
  • Polish: “La Possession”
  • Portuguese: “La Possession”
  • Prussian: “La Possession”
  • Romagnol: “La Possession”
  • Romanian: “La Possession”
  • Romansh: “La Possession”
  • Russian: “Ла-Посесьон”
  • Sardinian: “La Possession”
  • Scots: “La Possession”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Possession”
  • Serbian: “La Possession”
  • Serbian: “Ла Посесион”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Possession”
  • Sicilian: “La Possession”
  • Slovak: “La Possession”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لپوسسیون”
  • Spanish: “La Possession”
  • Swahili: “La Possession”
  • Swedish: “La Possession”
  • Swiss German: “La Possession”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Поссесьйон”
  • Turkish: “La Possession”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Поссесьйон”
  • Urdu: “لا پوسیسیون”
  • Venetian: “La Possession”
  • Vietnamese: “La Possession”
  • Vlaams: “La Possession”
  • Volapük: “La Possession”
  • Walloon: “La Possession”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Possession”
  • Welsh: “La Possession”
  • Wolof: “La Possession”
  • Zulu: “La Possession”
  • “La Possession”

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