Haute-Loire

Haute-Loire is a landlocked department in the region of south-central France. Named after the , it is surrounded by the departments of , , , and .
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  • Type: department of France with 228,000 residents
  • Description: French department
  • Also known as: “departamentul Haute-Loire”, “FR-43”, “дэпартамент Луара Верхняя”, and “Луара Верхняя”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Blanzac and Chapelle Saint-Joseph de Saint-Paulien.

Church
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is a church.

Historic site
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is a historic site, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Haute-Loire.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Haute-Loire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Paulien and Blanzac.

Village
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is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central . is situated 3½ km northwest of Haute-Loire.

Village
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is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central .

Village
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is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central . is situated 3½ km west of Haute-Loire.

Haute-Loire

Latitude
45.11° or 45° 6′ 36″ north
Longitude
3.8394° or 3° 50′ 22″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
724 metres (2,375 feet)
Open location code
8FQ54R6Q+2Q
Geo­Names ID
3013760
Wiki­data ID
Q12572
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Haute-Loire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Haute-Loire”
  • Albanian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Arabic: “لوار العليا”
  • Aragonese: “Alta Loira”
  • Armenian: “Վերին Լուար”
  • Arpitan: “Hiôta-Lêre”
  • Arpitan: “Hôta-Lêre”
  • Asturian: “Altu Loira”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ot-Luağ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Luara”
  • Basque: “Loira Garaia”
  • Belarusian: “Верхняя Луара”
  • Belarusian: “Верхняя Люара”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Верхняя Луара”
  • Bengali: “হাউততে লুইর”
  • Breton: “Liger-Uhel”
  • Bulgarian: “От Лоар”
  • Catalan: “Alt Loira”
  • Cebuano: “Haute-Loire”
  • Chechen: “Лакха ЛуагӀа”
  • Chinese: “上卢瓦尔省”
  • Chinese: “上盧瓦爾省”
  • Chinese: “上羅亞爾省”
  • Chuvash: “Тури Луара”
  • Croatian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Czech: “Haute-Loire”
  • Danish: “Haute-Loire”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Haute-Loire”
  • Dutch: “Haute-Loire”
  • Esperanto: “Haute-Loire”
  • Estonian: “Haute-Loire’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Haute-Loire”
  • French: “Département de la Haute-Loire”
  • French: “Haute-Loire”
  • Galician: “Alto Loira”
  • Georgian: “ზემო ლუარა”
  • German: “Département Haute-Loire”
  • German: “Haute-Loire”
  • Greek: “Ωτ-Λουάρ”
  • Gujarati: “હૌટ-લોઈર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sông Loire-sén”
  • Hebrew: “לואר עילי”
  • Hindi: “ओट-लोइर”
  • Hindi: “ओत-ल्वार”
  • Hungarian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Indonesian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Haute-Loire”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Haute-Loire”
  • Interlingue: “Département Haute-Loire”
  • Irish: “Haute-Loire”
  • Italian: “Alta Loira”
  • Japanese: “オート＝ロワール県”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಟೆ-ಲೋಯರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Луара”
  • Kongo: “Haute-Loire”
  • Korean: “오트루아르주”
  • Ladin: “Haute-Loire”
  • Ladino: “Haute Loire”
  • Latin: “Liger superior”
  • Latin: “Liger Superior”
  • Latvian: “Augšluāra”
  • Limburgan: “Haute-Loire”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Luara”
  • Lombard: “Haute-Loire”
  • Low German: “Haute-Loire”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Haute-Loire”
  • Macedonian: “Горна Лоара”
  • Malagasy: “Haute-Loire”
  • Malay: “Haute-Loire”
  • Marathi: “ऑत-लावार”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haute-Loire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Northern Sami: “Haute-Loire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haute-Loire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haute-Loire”
  • Norwegian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Naut Léger”
  • Ossetian: “Уæллаг Луарæ”
  • Pampanga: “Haute-Loire”
  • Persian: “اوت-لوآر”
  • Persian: “اوت-لوار”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Àuta Lòira”
  • Polish: “Górna Loara”
  • Portuguese: “Alto Loire”
  • Portuguese: “Haute-Loire”
  • Romanian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Russian: “Верхняя Луара”
  • Scots: “Haute-Loire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Haute-Loire”
  • Serbian: “Горња Лоара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Sinhala: “හෞටේ-ලොයිරේ”
  • Slovak: “Haute-Loire”
  • Slovenian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Spanish: “Alto Loira”
  • Swahili: “Haute-Loire”
  • Swedish: “Haute-Loire”
  • Swiss German: “Département Haute-Loire”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Луара Болоӣ”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Луараи Болоӣ”
  • Tamil: “ஹூட் -லோயிரே”
  • Telugu: “హాట్-లోయిర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอต-ลัวร์”
  • Turkish: “Haute-Loire”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхня Луара”
  • Urdu: “بالائی-لوار”
  • Uzbek: “Haute-Loire”
  • Venetian: “Alta Loira”
  • Vietnamese: “Haute-Loire”
  • Volapük: “Haute-Loire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Haute-Loire”
  • Welsh: “Haute-Loire”
  • Western Frisian: “Haute-Loire”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہواتے-لوار”
  • Wu Chinese: “上卢瓦尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “上盧華爾”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Blanzac and Azanières.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: la Roche de Luc and Musac.

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