Loire
Loire is a landlocked department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France occupying the river Loire's upper reaches. Its prefecture is Saint-Étienne. It had a population of 765,634 in 2019.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of France with 772,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Department of Loire” and “FR-42”
- Neighbors: Ardèche and Drôme, Greater Lyon, Isère, Puy-de-Dôme, and Saône-et-Loire
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stade Geoffroy-Guichard and Gare de Saint-Étienne-Châteaucreux.
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Stadium
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Stade Geoffroy-Guichard is a multi-purpose stadium in Saint-Étienne, France. It is used primarily for football matches, and tournaments such as the UEFA Euro 1984 and 2016, the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Gare de Saint-Étienne-Châteaucreux
Railway station
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Saint-Étienne Châteaucreux station is the main railway station in the town of Saint-Étienne. The station is situated in Châteaucreux, a little outside the centre of Saint-Étienne.
Musée d’art moderne
Museum
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, or MAMC, is an art museum in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It was inaugurated as a separate museum in 1987. It has one of the largest collections of its type in France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Étienne and Saint-Chamond.
Saint-Étienne
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Saint-Étienne is a city in the central eastern part of France, 60 km southwest of Lyon, in the Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the prefecture of the Loire Department. It is in the Massif Central.
Saint-Chamond
Town
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Saint-Chamond is a commune in the Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France. Situated 13 km northeast of the city of Saint-Étienne and 46 km southwest of Lyon, the town dates back to the Roman period. Saint-Chamond is situated 6 km east of Loire.
Loire
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Loire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Loire”
- Albanian: “Loire”
- Arabic: “لوار”
- Aragonese: “Loira”
- Armenian: “Լուար”
- Arpitan: “42”
- Arpitan: “dèpartement de Lêre”
- Arpitan: “FR-42”
- Arpitan: “Lêre”
- Asturian: “Loira”
- Azerbaijani: “Luara”
- Balinese: “Loire (departemén)”
- Balinese: “Loire”
- Basque: “Loira”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Луара”
- Belarusian: “Луара (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Луара”
- Belarusian: “Люара”
- Bengali: “লইরা”
- Breton: “Liger”
- Breton: “Loire”
- Bulgarian: “Лоар”
- Catalan: “Loira”
- Cebuano: “Loire”
- Chechen: “ЛуагӀа (департамент)”
- Chechen: “ЛуагӀа”
- Chinese: “Loire”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔省”
- Chinese: “盧瓦爾省”
- Chinese: “盧華爾”
- Chuvash: “Луара”
- Croatian: “Loire”
- Czech: “Loire”
- Dagbani: “Loire”
- Danish: “Loire”
- Dimli (individual language): “Loire”
- Dutch: “Loire”
- Esperanto: “Loire”
- Estonian: “Loire’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Loire”
- French: “Département de la Loire”
- French: “FR-42”
- French: “Loire”
- Galician: “Departamento de Loira”
- Galician: “Loira, Francia”
- Galician: “Loira”
- Georgian: “ლუარა”
- Georgian: “ლუარის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departement Loire”
- German: “Département Loire”
- German: “FR-42”
- German: “Loire”
- Greek: “Λουάρ”
- Gujarati: “લોઈરે”
- Hebrew: “לואר”
- Hindi: “लोयर”
- Hungarian: “Loire”
- Indonesian: “Loire”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Loire”
- Interlingue: “Département Loire”
- Irish: “Loire”
- Italian: “Loira”
- Japanese: “ロワール県”
- Kabyle: “Loire”
- Kannada: “ಲೋಯರ್”
- Kazakh: “Луара”
- Kongo: “Loire”
- Korean: “루아르주”
- Ladin: “Loire”
- Ladino: “Loire”
- Latin: “Liger”
- Latvian: “Luāra”
- Limburgan: “Loire”
- Lithuanian: “Luara”
- Lombard: “Loire”
- Low German: “Loire”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Loire”
- Macedonian: “Лоара”
- Malagasy: “Loire”
- Malay: “Loire”
- Marathi: “लावार”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Loire”
- Northern Frisian: “Loire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Loire”
- Norwegian: “Loire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Léger”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Léger”
- Ossetian: “Луарæ (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Луарæ”
- Pampanga: “Loire”
- Persian: “لوآر”
- Piemontese: “dipartiment ëd la Lòira”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Lòira”
- Piemontese: “Lòira”
- Polish: “Loara”
- Portuguese: “Loire”
- Romanian: “departamentul Loire”
- Romanian: “Loire”
- Russian: “Луара”
- Scots: “Loire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loire”
- Serbian: “Лоара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loire”
- Sinhala: “ලොයිරේ”
- Slovak: “Loire”
- Slovenian: “Loire”
- Spanish: “Loira”
- Swahili: “Loire”
- Swedish: “Loire”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Луара”
- Tamil: “லோயர்”
- Telugu: “లోయిర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดลัวร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Loire”
- Turkish: “Loire”
- Ukrainian: “Луара”
- Urdu: “لویری”
- Uzbek: “Luara (departament)”
- Uzbek: “Luara”
- Venetian: “Łoira”
- Vietnamese: “Loire”
- Volapük: “Loire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Loire”
- Welsh: “Loire”
- Western Frisian: “Departemint Loire”
- Western Frisian: “Loire”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع لوار”
- Wu Chinese: “卢瓦尔省”
- Yue Chinese: “盧華爾”
- “Loire”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as La Talaudière and Sorbiers.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St-Étienne Bus Station and St-Étienne-La Terrasse Railway Station.
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