Vendée
Arrondissement of Les Sables-d’Olonne
L’Aiguillon-sur-Mer

La Faute-sur-Mer

La Faute-sur-Mer is a former commune in the department in the region in western . It was merged with to form L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île on 1 January 2022.
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  • Type: Village with 972 residents
  • Description: commune in Vendée, France
  • Also known as: “La Faute”
  • Postal code: 85460

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse de La Faute-sur-Mer and Église Saint-Nicolas de L’Aiguillon-sur-Mer.

Church
Photo: Éduarel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Pantoine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Nature reserve
Photo: Réserve naturelle nationale de la Belle Henriette, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve, which is situated 3 km west of La Faute-sur-Mer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Michel-en-lHerm and Grues.

Village
Photo: Floflo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm is a commune in the department in the region in western . One of the most famous local landmarks is the Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm. is situated 6 km northeast of La Faute-sur-Mer.

Village
Photo: Wayne77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in western . is situated 8 km north of La Faute-sur-Mer.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in western . The final stages of the action of 30 June 1798, during which all three combatant frigates grounded, was fought just off the harbour. is situated 9 km west of La Faute-sur-Mer.

La Faute-sur-Mer

Latitude
46.33278° or 46° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
-1.32137° or 1° 19′ 17″ west
Population
972
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
8CRW8MMH+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 430191107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3009553
Wiki­data ID
Q932700
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Faute-sur-Mer” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Aragonese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Arpitan: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Bambara: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Basque: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Bavarian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Breton: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Cajun French: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Catalan: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Cebuano: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Chechen: “Ла-Фот-суьгӀ-МегӀ”
  • Chinese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Chinese: “滨海拉福特”
  • Corsican: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Croatian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Czech: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Danish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Dimli (individual language): “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Dutch: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Esperanto: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Estonian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Faroese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Finnish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • French: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Friulian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Galician: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • German: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Greek: “Λα Φωτ-συρ-Μερ”
  • Hungarian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Icelandic: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Ido: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Irish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Italian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Kabyle: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Kongo: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Ladin: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Latvian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Lithuanian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Low German: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Mainfränkisch: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Malay: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Narom: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Neapolitan: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Papiamento: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Piemontese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Polish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Prussian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Romagnol: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Romanian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Romansh: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Sardinian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Scots: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Serbian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Sicilian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Slovak: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Spanish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Swahili: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Swedish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Swiss German: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Фот-сюр-Мер”
  • Tosk Albanian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Turkish: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Фот-сюр-Мер”
  • Urdu: “لا فوٹی-سور-میر”
  • Venetian: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Vietnamese: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Welsh: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Wolof: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • Zulu: “La Faute-sur-Mer”
  • “La Faute-sur-Mer”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Faute-sur-Mer”. Photo: Pantoine, CC BY-SA 3.0.