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”, “departamentul Sarthe”, “Department of Sarthe”, “FR-72”, “إقليم سارت”, and “サルト”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: L’Épau Abbey and Le Mans Cathedral.

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L'Épau Royal Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey…

Church
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is a Catholic church situated in , . 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.

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.

Village
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is a commune in the Sarthe department in the… is situated 5 km east of Sarthe.

Village
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is a commune in the department of Sarthe… 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: “سارت”
  • Aragonese: “Sarthe”
  • Armenian: “Սարթ”
  • Arpitan: “Sarte”
  • Asturian: “Sarthe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sarta”
  • Basque: “Sarthe”
  • Bavarian: “Département Sarthe”
  • Bavarian: “Sarthe”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Сарта”
  • Belarusian: “Сарта”
  • Bengali: “সাঁর্তে”
  • Breton: “Sarthe”
  • Bulgarian: “Сарт”
  • Catalan: “Sarthe”
  • Cebuano: “Sarthe”
  • Chechen: “СагӀта”
  • Chechen: “Сарта”
  • Chinese: “萨尔特省”
  • 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: “Sarthe”
  • Galician: “Sarthe”
  • Georgian: “სარტა”
  • 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): “Sarthe”
  • Ossetian: “Сартæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Сартæ”
  • Pampanga: “Sarthe”
  • Persian: “سارت”
  • Persian: “سرت”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Sarthe”
  • Piemontese: “Sarthe”
  • Polish: “Sarthe”
  • Portuguese: “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”
  • Swiss German: “Département Sarthe”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Сарт”
  • Tamil: “சேர்த்தே”
  • Telugu: “సార్థె”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดซาร์ต”
  • 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”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Sarthe”.

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Yvré-l’Évêque and Le Logis de l’Huisne.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Golf Sargé-lès-Le Mans and Mercure Le Mans Centre.

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