Escaut

Escaut was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day and . It was named after the river , which is called the Escaut in French.
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  • Locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 3 metres (10 feet)
  • Description: former French department (1795-1814)

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Escaut

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Latitude
51.03333° or 51° 2′ north
Longitude
3.78333° or 3° 47′ east
Open location code
9F352QMM+88
Geo­Names ID
2787091
Wiki­data ID
Q1366860

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In Other Languages

From Breton to Vlaams—“Escaut” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Escaut (departamant)”
  • Breton: “Escaut”
  • Catalan: “Departement de l’Escaut”
  • Chinese: “斯海尔德省”
  • Dutch: “Schelde”
  • Dutch: “Scheldedepartement”
  • French: “département de l’Escaut”
  • French: “Escaut”
  • German: “Département Escaut”
  • German: “Schelde (Departement)”
  • Greek: “Εσκώ (νομός)”
  • Greek: “Εσκώ”
  • Greek: “Κατάλογος νομαρχών του Εσκώ”
  • Greek: “Νομάρχης του Εσκώ”
  • Greek: “Νομός του Εσκώ”
  • Irish: “Escaut”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento della Schelda”
  • Japanese: “エスコー県”
  • Korean: “에스코”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Escaut”
  • Romanian: “Escaut (departament)”
  • Romanian: “Escaut”
  • Russian: “Эско”
  • Swedish: “Escaut”
  • Turkish: “Escaut”
  • Vlaams: “Schelde (departement)”
  • Vlaams: “Schelde”

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