Rochefort
Rochefort, unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer for disambiguation, is a city and commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, located in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,100 residents
- Description: French commune in Charente-Maritime, New Aquitaine
- Also known as: “Rochefort-sur-Mer” and “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Postal codes: 17133 AIR, 17300, and 17300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Théâtre de la Coupe d’Or and Museum of old shops.
Théâtre de la Coupe d’Or
Theater building
Photo: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Théâtre de la Coupe d’Or is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loire-les-Marais and Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente.
Loire-les-Marais
Village
Photo: Symac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Loire-les-Marais is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Loire-les-Marais is situated 7 km north of Rochefort.
Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente
Village
Photo: Piso17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. In the 1680s, Fort Lupin was constructed near Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente. Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente is situated 7 km west of Rochefort.
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée
Village
Photo: Salix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée is a French commune and town in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée is situated 8 km northwest of Rochefort.
Rochefort
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Rochefort, Arrondissement of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.93666° or 45° 56′ 12″ northLongitude
-0.96164° or 0° 57′ 42″ westPopulation
23,100Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
RCOUnited Nations Location Code
FR RCOOpen location code
8CQXW2PQ+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 26692174OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2983276Wikidata ID
Q207587
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rochefort” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Afrikaans: “Rochefort”
- Arabic: “روشفور سور مير”
- Arabic: “روشفور”
- Aragonese: “Rochefort”
- Armenian: “Ռոշֆոր”
- Arpitan: “Rochefort”
- Asturian: “Rochefort”
- Azerbaijani: “Roşfor”
- Bambara: “Rochefort”
- Basque: “Rochefort”
- Bavarian: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Bavarian: “Rochefort”
- Belarusian: “Рашфор”
- Breton: “Roc’hfort”
- Breton: “Rochefort”
- Bulgarian: “Рошфор (Франция)”
- Bulgarian: “Рошфор”
- Cajun French: “Rochefort”
- Catalan: “Ròchafòrt de Mar”
- Catalan: “Ròchafòrt”
- Catalan: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Catalan: “Rochefort”
- Cebuano: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Cebuano: “Rochefort”
- Chechen: “ГӀошфогӀ”
- Chinese: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Chinese: “Rochefort”
- Chinese: “罗什福尔”
- Chinese: “罗谢福尔”
- Chinese: “羅什福爾”
- Corsican: “Rochefort”
- Croatian: “Rochefort”
- Czech: “Rochefort”
- Danish: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Danish: “Rochefort”
- Dutch: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Dutch: “Rochefort”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روشفور”
- Esperanto: “Rochefort”
- Estonian: “Rochefort”
- Faroese: “Rochefort”
- Finnish: “Rochefort”
- French: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- French: “Rochefort”
- Friulian: “Rochefort”
- Galician: “Rochefort”
- Georgian: “როშფორი”
- German: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- German: “Rochefort”
- Greek: “Λιμάνι του Ροσφόρ”
- Greek: “Ροσφόρ-συρ-Μερ”
- Greek: “Ροσφόρ”
- Hebrew: “רושפור”
- Hungarian: “Rochefort”
- Icelandic: “Rochefort”
- Ido: “Rochefort”
- Indonesian: “Rochefort”
- Interlingua: “Rochefort”
- Interlingue: “Rochefort”
- Irish: “Rochefort”
- Italian: “Rochefort”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Rochefort”
- Japanese: “シャラント=マリティーム県ロシュフォール”
- Japanese: “ロシュフォール”
- Japanese: “ロシュフォール=シュル=メール”
- Kabyle: “Rochefort”
- Kalaallisut: “Rochefort”
- Kongo: “Rochefort”
- Korean: “로슈포르 쉬르 메르”
- Korean: “로슈포르”
- Korean: “로슈포르쉬르메르”
- Kurdish: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Ladin: “Rochefort”
- Latin: “Rupifortium”
- Latvian: “Rochefort”
- Ligurian: “Rochefort”
- Limburgan: “Rochefort”
- Lithuanian: “Rošforas”
- Low German: “Rochefort”
- Luxembourgish: “Rochefort”
- Macedonian: “Рошфор”
- Mainfränkisch: “Rochefort”
- Malagasy: “Rochefort”
- Malay: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Malay: “Rochefort”
- Mazanderani: “روشفو، شارانت-ماریتیم”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rochefort”
- Minangkabau: “Rochefort”
- Narom: “Rochefort”
- Neapolitan: “Rochefort”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rochefort i Charente-Maritime”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rochefort”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rochefort i Charente-Maritime”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rochefort”
- Norwegian: “Rochefort”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ròchafòrt de Mar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ròchafòrt”
- Papiamento: “Rochefort”
- Persian: “روشفو، شارانت-ماریتیم”
- Persian: “روشفور، شرانت-ماریتیم”
- Picard: “Rochefort”
- Piemontese: “Rochefort”
- Polish: “Rochefort”
- Portuguese: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Portuguese: “Rochefort”
- Prussian: “Rochefort”
- Romagnol: “Rochefort”
- Romanian: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Romanian: “Rochefort”
- Romansh: “Rochefort”
- Russian: “Рошфор”
- Sardinian: “Rochefort”
- Scots: “Rochefort”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rochefort”
- Serbian: “Rochefort”
- Serbian: “Рошфор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rochefort”
- Sicilian: “Rochefort”
- Slovak: “Rochefort”
- Slovenian: “Rochefort”
- Spanish: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Spanish: “Rochefort”
- Swahili: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Swahili: “Rochefort”
- Swedish: “Rochefort-sur-Mer”
- Swedish: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Swedish: “Rochefort”
- Swiss German: “Rochefort”
- Tatar: “Рошфор”
- Turkish: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Turkish: “Rochefort”
- Ukrainian: “Рошфор-сюр-Мер”
- Ukrainian: “Рошфор”
- Venetian: “Rochefort”
- Vietnamese: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Vietnamese: “Rochefort”
- Vlaams: “Rochefort”
- Volapük: “Rochefort”
- Walloon: “Rochefort”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rochefort”
- Welsh: “Rochefort”
- Wolof: “Rochefort”
- Yue Chinese: “Rochefort, Charente-Maritime”
- Zulu: “Rochefort”
- “Rochefort”
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