Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher is a department in the region of . It is named after two rivers which run through it, the in its northern part and the in its southern part.
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  • Type: department of France with 329,000 residents
  • Description: French department in the region of Centre-Val de Loire
  • Also known as: “Loir et Cher” and “Loire-et-Cher”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Cheverny and Église Saint-Étienne de Cheverny.

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The is located in , Loir-et-Cher, . It is one of the châteaux of the Loire Valley.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is situated 3½ km west of Loir-et-Cher.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fontaines-en-Sologne and Tour-en-Sologne.

Village
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is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, central . is situated 4 km east of Loir-et-Cher.

Village
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is a commune of the Loir-et-Cher department in the administrative region of , . is situated 4½ km north of Loir-et-Cher.

Loir-et-Cher

Latitude
47.5° or 47° 30′ north
Longitude
1.5° or 1° 30′ east
Population
329,000
Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR L98
Open location code
8FV3GG22+22
Geo­Names ID
2997856
Wiki­data ID
Q12564
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Loir-et-Cher” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Amharic: “ሏር-ኤ-ሼር”
  • Arabic: “لوار وشير”
  • Aragonese: “Loir y Cher”
  • Armenian: “Լուար և Շեր”
  • Arpitan: “Lêr-et-Ch·èr”
  • Asturian: “Loir y Cher”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luar və Şer”
  • Basque: “Loir eta Cher”
  • Bavarian: “Département Loir-et-Cher”
  • Bavarian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Луар і Шэр”
  • Belarusian: “Луар і Шэр”
  • Belarusian: “Люар і Шэр”
  • Bengali: “লয়ের-এত-চের”
  • Breton: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Bulgarian: “Лоар е Шер”
  • Catalan: “Loir et Cher”
  • Catalan: “Loir i Cher”
  • Cebuano: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Chechen: “ЛуагӀ а, ШегӀ а”
  • Chechen: “ЛуагӀ а”
  • Chinese: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Chinese: “卢瓦-谢尔省”
  • Chinese: “盧瓦-謝爾省”
  • Chinese: “盧華－些爾”
  • Chuvash: “Луар тата Шер”
  • Corsican: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Czech: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Danish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Dutch: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Esperanto: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Estonian: “Loir-et-Cheri departemang”
  • Finnish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • French: “FR-41”
  • French: “Loir et Cher”
  • French: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Galician: “Loir e Cher”
  • Georgian: “ლუარი და შერი”
  • German: “Département du Loir-et-Cher”
  • German: “Département Loir-et-Cher”
  • German: “Loir et Cher”
  • German: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Greek: “Λουάρ-ε-Σερ”
  • Gujarati: “લોઈર-એટ-ચેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Hebrew: “לואר ושר”
  • Hindi: “लुआर-ए-शेर”
  • Hindi: “ल्वार-ए-शेर”
  • Hungarian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Icelandic: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Indonesian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Loir-et-Cher”
  • Interlingua: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Irish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Italian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Italian: “Loiro e Caro”
  • Japanese: “ロワール＝エ＝シェール”
  • Japanese: “ロワール＝エ＝シェール県”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋಯಿರ್-ಎಟ್-ಚೆರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Луар және Шер”
  • Kongo: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Korean: “루아레셰르주”
  • Korean: “루아르 에 셰르주”
  • Korean: “루아르에셰르주”
  • Ladin: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Ladino: “Loir et Cher”
  • Latin: “Lidericus et Carus”
  • Latvian: “Luāra un Šēra”
  • Limburgan: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Lithuanian: “Luaras ir Šeras”
  • Lombard: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Low German: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Loir-et-Cher”
  • Macedonian: “Лоар и Шер”
  • Malagasy: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Malay: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Marathi: “लुआर-ए-शेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Northern Frisian: “Loir-et-Cher (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Northern Sami: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Norwegian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Loir e Char”
  • Ossetian: “Луар æмæ Шер”
  • Pampanga: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Persian: “لوآر-ا-شر”
  • Persian: “لوآره شر”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd Loir e Cher”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd Loir-et-Cher”
  • Polish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Portuguese: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Loir-et-Cher”
  • Romanian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Russian: “Луар и Шер”
  • Russian: “Луар-и-Шер”
  • Scots: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Serbian: “Лоар и Шер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Sinhala: “ලයර්-එට්-චෙර්”
  • Slovak: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Slovenian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوآر-ا-شر”
  • Spanish: “FR-41”
  • Spanish: “Loir y Cher”
  • Swahili: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Swedish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Луар ва Шер”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Луар и Шер”
  • Tamil: “லோயர்-எட் -செர்”
  • Telugu: “లోయిర్-ఎట్-చెర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดลัวเรแชร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Loir-et-Cher”
  • Turkish: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Ukrainian: “Луар і Шер”
  • Urdu: “لوار-اے-شر”
  • Uzbek: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Venetian: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Vietnamese: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Volapük: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Welsh: “Loir-et-Cher”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع لوآره شر”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢瓦-谢尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧華－些爾”
  • “Loir-et-Cher”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny.

Notable Places Nearby

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