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Pays de la Loire

Loire

The Loire is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of 1,006 kilometres, it drains 117,054 km2, more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: longest river in France
  • Also known as: “La Loire Fleuve”, “Loire River”, and “River Loire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include German U-Boats Bunker/ U-Boat pens and French submarine Espadon.

Photo: KaTeznik, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
The submarine base of Saint-Nazaire is one of five large fortified U-boat pens built by Germany during the Second World War in occupied , France.

Museum
Photo: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Espadon was a Narval-class submarine of the French Navy. Along with sister boat Marsouin, the boat was the first French submarine to steam under sea ice. The boat is currently a museum ship.

Work of art
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
Serpent d'océan is a work by artist Huang Yong Ping. Depicting a long sea serpent skeleton, it is installed in the intertidal zone at , , and was inaugurated on June 20, 2012.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Nazaire and Saint-Brevin-les-Pins.

Photo: TouN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a port town of 153,000 people at the mouth of the Loire, near in western .

Village
Photo: JYB Devot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in western . It is known as the site of the , a giant sea serpent sculpture by artist Huang Yong Ping. is situated 2½ km southeast of Loire.

Suburb
Photo: Demeester, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a seaside resort in , situated in the commune of . It is located 6 kilometres to the west of the center of the town of Saint-Nazaire, of which it is a district. is situated 8 km southwest of Loire.

Loire

Latitude
47.26952° or 47° 16′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.18349° or 2° 11′ 1″ west
Open location code
8CVV7R98+RJ
Geo­Names ID
2997872
Wiki­data ID
Q1469
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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”
  • Amharic: “ሏር ወንዝ”
  • Arabic: “اللوار”
  • Arabic: “نهر اللوار”
  • Aragonese: “Río Loira”
  • Armenian: “Լուար”
  • Arpitan: “Lêre”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Loira”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luara çayı”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Loire”
  • Bashkir: “Луара”
  • Basque: “Loira”
  • Belarusian: “Луара”
  • Belarusian: “Люара”
  • Bengali: “লোয়ার নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “लोयर नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Loara”
  • Breton: “Al Liger”
  • Breton: “Liger”
  • Bulgarian: “Лоара”
  • Catalan: “Loira”
  • Catalan: “Riu Loira”
  • Cebuano: “Loire”
  • Chinese: “Loire Khe”
  • Chinese: “卢瓦尔河”
  • Chinese: “盧華爾河”
  • Chinese: “羅亞爾河”
  • Chuvash: “Луара”
  • Corsican: “Loira”
  • Croatian: “Loire”
  • Czech: “Loira”
  • Danish: “Loire”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Loire”
  • Dutch: “Loire (rivier)”
  • Dutch: “Loire”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوار”
  • Esperanto: “Luaro”
  • Estonian: “Loire”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Loire Naddi”
  • Fijian: “Loire”
  • Finnish: “Loire”
  • French: “Loire”
  • Galician: “Río Loira, Francia”
  • Galician: “Río Loira”
  • Georgian: “ლუარა”
  • German: “Loire”
  • Greek: “Λίγηρας”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Loire-sén”
  • Hausa: “Loire”
  • Hebrew: “לואר”
  • Hindi: “लवार नदी”
  • Hindi: “लोयर नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Loire”
  • Icelandic: “Leira”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Loire”
  • Igbo: “Loire”
  • Igbo: “Oke osimiri Loire”
  • Igbo: “Osimiri Loire”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Loire”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Loire”
  • Irish: “An Loire”
  • Irish: “Loire”
  • Italian: “Loira”
  • Japanese: “ロワール川”
  • Kazakh: “Луара”
  • Kirghiz: “Луара”
  • Korean: “루아르강”
  • Ladin: “Loire”
  • Latin: “Liger”
  • Latvian: “Luāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Luara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Loire”
  • Macedonian: “Лоара”
  • Malayalam: “ലോയർ”
  • Marathi: “लाऊआर नदी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Loire Khe”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუარა”
  • Mongolian: “Луар мөрөн”
  • Nepali: “लोइर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Loire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loire”
  • Norwegian: “Loire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Léger”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ligore”
  • Ossetian: “Луарæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੁਆਰ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “لوآر”
  • Persian: “لوار”
  • Piemontese: “Lòira”
  • Polish: “Loara”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Loire”
  • Romanian: “Loara”
  • Russian: “Луара”
  • Sardinian: “Lòira”
  • Scots: “Loire”
  • Serbian: “Лоара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loire”
  • Sicilian: “Loira”
  • Slovak: “Loira”
  • Slovenian: “Loara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوآر”
  • Spanish: “Loira”
  • Spanish: “Río Loira”
  • Swahili: “Mto Loire”
  • Swedish: “Floden Loire”
  • Swedish: “Loire”
  • Swiss German: “Loire”
  • Tajik: “Луара”
  • Tamil: “லுவார் ஆறு”
  • Telugu: “లోరీ”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำลัวร์”
  • Tibetan: “ལུའུ་ཝར་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Loire”
  • Turkish: “Loire Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Луара”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Loire”
  • Urdu: “لوار”
  • Uzbek: “Luara”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Loira”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Loire”
  • Vlaams: “Loire (riviere)”
  • Vlaams: “Loire”
  • Welsh: “Afon Loire”
  • Western Frisian: “Loire”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢瓦尔河”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧華爾河”
  • “Loire”
  • “लोयर नदी”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Mindin and Penhoët.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Le Nez de Chien and Pointe de Mindin.

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