Gap

Gap is the prefecture of the department of , in the region of , southern France. With a population of about 41,000, it is the most populated city in Hautes-Alpes.
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  • Type: Town with 40,500 residents
  • Description: commune in Hautes-Alpes, France
  • Also known as: “Gap (Hautes-Alpes)”, “Gap Altos Alpes”, “Gap i Hautes-Alpes”, “Gap, Altos Alpes”, “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”, “Gapencais”, “Gapençais”, “Vapinci”, “Ґап”, “گـپ”, “گپ، پروانس آلپ -کوت دازور”, “گپ، پروانس الپ‌-کوت دازور”, “ガップ”, and “加镇”
  • Postal code: 05000

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gap station and Musée Muséum départemental des Hautes-Alpes.

Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station serving the town Gap, department, southeastern .

Museum
Photo: Olivier2000, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Town hall
Photo: Ludo29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a municipal building…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Romette and Rambaud.

Village
Photo: Fr.Latreille, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 3 km northeast of Gap.

Village
Photo: Harald Hetzner, CC0.
is a village, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Gap.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southeastern . is situated 7 km south of Gap.

Gap

Latitude
44.5612° or 44° 33′ 40″ north
Longitude
6.08206° or 6° 4′ 55″ east
Population
40,500
Elevation
741 metres (2,431 feet)
IATA airport code
GAT
UN/LOCODE
FR GAT
Open location code
8FP8H36J+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691823
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3016702
Wiki­data ID
Q175081
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gap” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Afrikaans: “Gap”
  • Albanian: “Gap”
  • Arabic: “غاب”
  • Arabic: “غب بروانس آلب كوت دازور”
  • Aragonese: “Gap”
  • Armenian: “Գապ”
  • Arpitan: “Gap”
  • Asturian: “Gap”
  • Bambara: “Gap”
  • Basque: “Gap”
  • Bavarian: “Gap”
  • Belarusian: “Гап”
  • Breton: “Gap”
  • Buginese: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Buginese: “Gap”
  • Bulgarian: “Гап”
  • Cajun French: “Gap”
  • Catalan: “Gap”
  • Cebuano: “Gap”
  • Chechen: “Гап”
  • Chinese: “加普”
  • Chuvash: “Гап”
  • Corsican: “Gap”
  • Croatian: “Gap”
  • Czech: “Gap”
  • Dagbani: “Gap”
  • Danish: “Gap”
  • Dutch: “Gap”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جب بروانس آلب كوت دازور”
  • Esperanto: “Gap”
  • Estonian: “Gap”
  • Faroese: “Gap”
  • Finnish: “Gap”
  • French: “Gap”
  • Friulian: “Gap”
  • Galician: “Gap”
  • German: “Gap”
  • Greek: “Γκαπ”
  • Hebrew: “גאפ”
  • Hungarian: “Gap”
  • Icelandic: “Gap”
  • Ido: “Gap”
  • Indonesian: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Indonesian: “Gap”
  • Interlingua: “Gap”
  • Interlingue: “Gap”
  • Irish: “Gap”
  • Italian: “Gap”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gap”
  • Japanese: “ギャップ”
  • Jèrriais: “Gap”
  • Kabyle: “Gap”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gap”
  • Kongo: “Gap”
  • Korean: “가프”
  • Kurdish: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Kurdish: “Gap”
  • Ladin: “Gap”
  • Latin: “Vapincum”
  • Latvian: “Gapa”
  • Ligurian: “Gap”
  • Limburgan: “Gap”
  • Lingala: “Gap”
  • Lithuanian: “Gapas”
  • Lombard: “Gap”
  • Low German: “Gap”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gap”
  • Macedonian: “Гап”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Gap”
  • Malagasy: “Gap”
  • Malay: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Malay: “Gap”
  • Mazanderani: “گاپ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gap”
  • Minangkabau: “Gap”
  • Neapolitan: “Gap”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gap”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gap”
  • Norwegian: “Gap”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gap”
  • Ossetian: “Гап (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Гап”
  • Papiamento: “Gap”
  • Persian: “گاپ”
  • Persian: “گپ، اوت آلپ”
  • Persian: “گپ، پروانس آلپ-کوت دازور”
  • Persian: “گپ، پروانس آلپ‌-کوت دازور”
  • Picard: “Gap”
  • Piemontese: “Gap”
  • Polish: “Gap”
  • Portuguese: “Gap”
  • Prussian: “Gap”
  • Romagnol: “Gap”
  • Romanian: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Romanian: “Gap”
  • Romansh: “Gap”
  • Russian: “Гап”
  • Sardinian: “Gap”
  • Scots: “Gap”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gap”
  • Serbian: “Gap”
  • Serbian: “Гап”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gap”
  • Sicilian: “Gap”
  • Silesian: “Gap”
  • Slovak: “Gap”
  • Slovenian: “Gap”
  • Spanish: “Gap”
  • Swahili: “Gap”
  • Swedish: “Gap”
  • Swiss German: “Gap”
  • Tatar: “Гап (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Гап”
  • Turkish: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Turkish: “Gap”
  • Ukrainian: “Гап”
  • Urdu: “گیپ، بالائی-آلپ”
  • Urdu: “گیپ”
  • Venetian: “Gap”
  • Vietnamese: “Gap”
  • Vlaams: “Gap”
  • Volapük: “Gap”
  • Walloon: “Gap”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gap”
  • Welsh: “Gap”
  • Wolof: “Gap”
  • Wu Chinese: “加普”
  • Yue Chinese: “Gap, Hautes-Alpes”
  • Yue Chinese: “Gap”
  • Zulu: “Gap”
  • “Gap”

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