Sarthe

Sarthe is a department of the French region of , and the province of Maine, situated in the Grand-Ouest of the country. It is named after the river , which flows from east of to just north of .
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  • Type: department of France with 566,000 residents
  • Description: French department
  • Also known as: “72”, “Department of Sarthe”, and “FR-72”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include L’Épau Abbey and Le Mans Cathedral.

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L'Épau Royal Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey founded by the English queen Berengaria of Navarre in 1229. It is located on the outskirts of the city of , on the left bank of the , adjoining the town of .

Church
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is a Catholic church situated in , . The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Julian of Le Mans, the city's first bishop, who established Christianity in the area around the beginning of the 4th century. is situated 5 km west of Sarthe.

Museum
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The is the central museum of fine arts for the city of in France. It is located on the edge of the and the Parc de Tessé.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Le Mans and Champagné.

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is a town in in France, best known for its annual 24-hour automobile race. is twinned with , .

Village
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is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of in north-western . is situated 5 km east of Sarthe.

Village
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is a commune in the department of Sarthe in the of north-western . is located in the canton of Écommoy and the arrondissement of Le Mans. is situated 7 km south of Sarthe.

Sarthe

Latitude
48.0049° or 48° 0′ 18″ north
Longitude
0.2652° or 0° 15′ 55″ east
Population
566,000
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Open location code
8FW22738+X3
Geo­Names ID
2975926
Wiki­data ID
Q12740
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sarthe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sarthe”
  • Albanian: “Sarthe”
  • Arabic: “إقليم سارت”
  • Arabic: “سارت”
  • Aragonese: “Sarthe”
  • Armenian: “Սարթ”
  • Arpitan: “Sarte”
  • Asturian: “Sarthe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sarta”
  • Basque: “Sarthe”
  • Bavarian: “Département Sarthe”
  • Bavarian: “Sarthe”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Сарта”
  • Belarusian: “Сарт”
  • Belarusian: “Сарта”
  • Bengali: “সাঁর্তে”
  • Breton: “Sarthe”
  • Bulgarian: “Сарт”
  • Catalan: “Sarthe”
  • Cebuano: “Sarthe”
  • Chechen: “СагӀта”
  • Chechen: “Сарта”
  • Chinese: “Sarthe”
  • Chinese: “萨尔特省”
  • Chinese: “薩爾特”
  • Chuvash: “Сарт”
  • Corsican: “Sarthe”
  • Czech: “Sarthe”
  • Danish: “Sarthe”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sarthe”
  • Dutch: “Sarthe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سارت”
  • Esperanto: “Sarthe”
  • Estonian: “Sarthe’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Sarthe”
  • French: “Département de la Sarthe”
  • French: “FR-72”
  • French: “Sarthe”
  • Galician: “Sarthe”
  • Georgian: “სარტა”
  • German: “Departement Sarthe”
  • German: “Département Sarthe”
  • German: “Sarthe”
  • Greek: “Σαρτ”
  • Gujarati: “સર્થે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sarthe-sén”
  • Hebrew: “סארת”
  • Hindi: “सार्थे”
  • Hungarian: “Sarthe”
  • Indonesian: “Sarthe”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Sarthe”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Sarthe”
  • Irish: “Sarthe”
  • Italian: “Sarthe”
  • Japanese: “サルト”
  • Japanese: “サルト県”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾರ್ಥೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Сарта”
  • Kongo: “Sarthe”
  • Korean: “사르트주”
  • Ladin: “Sarthe”
  • Ladino: “Sarthe”
  • Latin: “Sartha”
  • Latvian: “Sarta”
  • Limburgan: “Sarthe”
  • Lithuanian: “Sartas”
  • Lombard: “Sarthe”
  • Low German: “Sarthe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Sarthe”
  • Macedonian: “Сарта”
  • Malagasy: “Sarthe”
  • Malay: “Sarthe”
  • Marathi: “सार्त”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sarthe”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sarthe (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sarthe”
  • Northern Sami: “Sarthe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarthe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarthe”
  • Norwegian: “Sarthe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Sarta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sarta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sarthe”
  • Ossetian: “Сартæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Сартæ”
  • Pampanga: “Sarthe”
  • Persian: “سارت”
  • Persian: “سرت”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Sarthe”
  • Piemontese: “Sarthe”
  • Polish: “Sarthe”
  • Portuguese: “Sarthe”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Sarthe”
  • Romanian: “Sarthe”
  • Russian: “Сарта”
  • Scots: “Sarthe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sarthe”
  • Serbian: “Сарт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sarthe”
  • Sinhala: “සර්තේ”
  • Slovak: “Sarthe”
  • Slovenian: “Sarthe”
  • Spanish: “Sarthe”
  • Swahili: “Sarthe”
  • Swedish: “Sarthe”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Сарт”
  • Tamil: “சேர்த்தே”
  • Telugu: “సార్థె”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดซาร์ต”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Sarthe”
  • Turkish: “Sarthe”
  • Ukrainian: “Сарта”
  • Urdu: “سارت”
  • Uzbek: “Sarthe”
  • Venetian: “Sarthe”
  • Vietnamese: “Sarthe”
  • Vlaams: “Sarthe”
  • Volapük: “Sarthe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sarthe”
  • Welsh: “Sarthe”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع سارٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔特省”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩爾特”

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