Provence
Provence is a geographical, cultural region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region
- Description: region and historical province of southeastern France
- Also known as: “Provença” and “Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chapelle Saint-Elzéar de Puimichel and Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Olivier.
Chapelle Saint-Elzéar de Puimichel
Church
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Chapelle Saint-Elzéar de Puimichel is a church, which is situated 3 km southeast of Provence.
Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Olivier
Church
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Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Olivier is a church, which is situated 4 km northwest of Provence.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Salette des Mées
Church
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Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Salette des Mées is a church, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Provence.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Mées and Malijai.
Les Mées
Village
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Les Mées is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Les Mées is situated 4 km northwest of Provence.
Malijai
Village
Malijai is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. In 1974, it absorbed the former commune Chénerilles. Malijai is situated 6 km northeast of Provence.
Peyruis
Village
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Peyruis is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Peyruis is situated 6 km northwest of Provence.
Provence
- Categories: cultural region, historical region, and regions of Occitania
- Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Provence” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Provence”
- Albanian: “Provenca”
- Arabic: “بروفانس”
- Aragonese: “Probenza”
- Aragonese: “Provenza”
- Armenian: “Պրովանս”
- Arpitan: “Provence”
- Asturian: “Provenza”
- Azerbaijani: “Provans”
- Basque: “Proventza”
- Belarusian: “Праванс”
- Bengali: “প্রভাঁস”
- Breton: “Provañs”
- Bulgarian: “Прованс”
- Catalan: “la Provença”
- Catalan: “Provença”
- Chinese: “Provence”
- Chinese: “普罗文斯”
- Chinese: “普罗旺斯”
- Chinese: “普罗旺斯省”
- Chinese: “普羅旺斯”
- Corsican: “Pruvenza”
- Croatian: “Provansa”
- Czech: “Provence”
- Czech: “Provensálsko”
- Danish: “Provence”
- Dutch: “Provence”
- Esperanto: “Provenco”
- Estonian: “Provence”
- Extremaduran: “Provença”
- Finnish: “Provence”
- French: “Provence”
- Galician: “Provenza”
- Georgian: “პროვანსი”
- German: “Grafschaft Provence”
- German: “Haute Provence”
- German: “Provence”
- Greek: “Προβένς”
- Greek: “Προβηγκία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Provence-sén”
- Hebrew: “חבל פרובנס”
- Hebrew: “פרובאנס”
- Hebrew: “פרובינצא”
- Hebrew: “פרובינצה”
- Hebrew: “פרובנס”
- Hungarian: “Provence”
- Indonesian: “Provence”
- Irish: “Provence”
- Italian: “Provenza”
- Japanese: “プロヴァンス”
- Japanese: “プロバンス”
- Japanese: “プロベンサ”
- Kashubian: “Prowansjô”
- Kirghiz: “Прованс”
- Korean: “프로방스”
- Korean: “프루벤소”
- Latin: “Comitatus Provinciae”
- Latvian: “Provansa”
- Ligurian: “Provensa”
- Lithuanian: “Provansas”
- Low German: “Provença”
- Low German: “Provence”
- Macedonian: “Прованса”
- Malay: “Provence”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Provence”
- Mingrelian: “პროვანსი”
- Narom: “Prouvenche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provence”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provence”
- Norwegian: “Provence”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Prouvènço”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Provença”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Profense”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Profentse”
- Ossetian: “Прованс”
- Persian: “پروانس”
- Polish: “Prowansja”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Provença”
- Portuguese: “Provença”
- Portuguese: “Provence”
- Quechua: “Pruwinsa”
- Quechua: “Puruwinsa”
- Romanian: “Provence”
- Romanian: “Provența”
- Russian: “Прованс”
- Sardinian: “Proventza”
- Scots: “Provença”
- Scots: “Provence”
- Serbian: “Provansa”
- Serbian: “Прованса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Provansa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Provence”
- Sicilian: “Pruvenza”
- Silesian: “Prowansyjo”
- Slovak: “Provensalsko”
- Slovak: “Provensálsko”
- Slovenian: “Provansa”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرووانس”
- Spanish: “Provenza”
- Swahili: “Provence”
- Swedish: “Provençalsk”
- Swedish: “Provence”
- Swedish: “Provensalsk”
- Swiss German: “Provence”
- Tamil: “புரோவென்சு”
- Thai: “Provence”
- Thai: “โปรวองซ์”
- Thai: “พรอว็องส์”
- Tibetan: “ཕོ་རོའོ་ཝང་སི་”
- Tibetan: “ཕོ་རོའོ་ཝང་སི།”
- Tibetan: “ཕོ་རོའོ་ཝང་སིའི་”
- Tosk Albanian: “Provence”
- Turkish: “Provence”
- Ukrainian: “Прованс”
- Uzbek: “Provence”
- Venetian: “Provensa”
- Vietnamese: “Provence”
- Welsh: “Profens”
- Western Frisian: “Provâns”
- Wu Chinese: “普罗旺斯”
- Yakut: “Прованц”
- Yue Chinese: “普羅旺斯”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur and Puimichel.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bléone and Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Airport.
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