Oléron

The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island is an island off the Atlantic coast of France, on the southern side of the strait. It is the second largest island of metropolitan France, after , with a length of 30 km and a width of 8 km.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Charente-Maritime, New Aquitaine, France
  • Also known as: “Ilâte d’Olerun”, “Ile d’Oleron”, “Ile d’Oléron”, “Île d’Oleron”, “Ile de Oleron”, “île lumineuse”, “Île lumineuse”, “Île-d’Oléron”, “Île-de-la-Liberté”, “Isla de oleron”, “Isla de Oléron”, “Island o Oléron”, “Island of Oleron”, “Island of Oléron”, “Isle of Oléron”, “la lumineuse”, “Oleron Island”, “Oléron Island”, “Olerun”, “Uliarus”, “о. Олерон”, “Олерон (острів)”, “Олерон (остров)”, “острів Олерон”, and “أوليرون”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Town hall of Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron and Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron.

Town hall
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Church
Photo: Onyssius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: KiwiNeko14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Boyard.

Locality
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is a fort built on Boyard bank, an ocean… is situated 10 km northeast of Oléron.

Oléron

Latitude
45.93333° or 45° 56′ north
Longitude
-1.3° or 1° 18′ west
Population
21,800
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8CQWWMMX+8X
Geo­Names ID
2989626
Wiki­data ID
Q292568
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Oléron” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة أوليرون”
  • Asturian: “Islla d’Oleron”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oleron”
  • Basque: “Oléron”
  • Belarusian: “Алерон”
  • Breton: “Enez Oléron”
  • Catalan: “Oléron”
  • Cebuano: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Chinese: “奥莱龙岛”
  • Chinese: “奧萊龍島”
  • Czech: “Oléron”
  • Danish: “Oléron”
  • Dutch: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Dutch: “Île dOléron”
  • Esperanto: “Oléron”
  • Estonian: “Oléron”
  • Finnish: “Oléron”
  • French: “île d’Oléron”
  • French: “Île d’Oléron”
  • French: “Île dOléron”
  • Galician: “Olerón”
  • Galician: “Oléron”
  • German: “île d’Oléron”
  • German: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Greek: “Ολερόν”
  • Hebrew: “אולרון”
  • Hungarian: “Oléron”
  • Indonesian: “Oléron”
  • Italian: “Oléron”
  • Japanese: “オレロン島”
  • Korean: “올레롱섬”
  • Latin: “Uliarus insula”
  • Lithuanian: “Oleronas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Macedonian: “Олерон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Norwegian: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa d’Oleron”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Olairon”
  • Polish: “Oléron”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Oléron”
  • Romanian: “Oléron”
  • Russian: “Олерон”
  • Scots: “Isle o Oléron”
  • Scots: “Oléron Island”
  • Silesian: “Oléron”
  • Slovenian: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Oleron”
  • Swedish: “Île d’Oléron”
  • Turkish: “Oléron”
  • Ukrainian: “Олерон”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Oléron”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: L’Ile d’Oléron and Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron Airport and Golf d’Oléron.

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