Cher

Cher is a department in central France, part of the region. Named after the river , its prefecture is . In 2023, it had a population of 298,660.
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  • Department of France with 299,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 152 metres (499 feet)
  • …is also known as “Cher (department)”
  • Description: French department
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Saint-Germain-du-Puy and Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-du-Puy.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 4 km northeast of Cher.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moulins-sur-Yèvre and Saint-Michel-de-Volangis.

Village
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is a commune in the Cher department in the region of .

Village
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is a commune in the Cher… is situated 4 km north of Cher.

Village
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is a commune in the Cher department in the region of . is situated 4½ km south of Cher.

Cher

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Latitude
47.113° or 47° 6′ 47″ north
Longitude
2.5098° or 2° 30′ 35″ east
Open location code
8FV44G75+6W
Geo­Names ID
3025480
Wiki­data ID
Q3286

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cher” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cher”
  • Albanian: “Cher”
  • Arabic: “شار”
  • Arabic: “شير”
  • Aragonese: “Char”
  • Armenian: “Շեր”
  • Arpitan: “Ch·èr”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şer (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şer”
  • Basque: “Cher”
  • Bavarian: “Département Cher”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Шэр”
  • Belarusian: “Шэр (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Шэр (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Шэр”
  • Bengali: “চের”
  • Breton: “Cher”
  • Bulgarian: “Шер”
  • Catalan: “Cher”
  • Cebuano: “Cher”
  • Chechen: “ШегӀ (департамент)”
  • Chechen: “ШегӀ”
  • Chinese: “謝爾省”
  • Chinese: “谢尔省”
  • Chuvash: “Шер”
  • Czech: “Cher”
  • Danish: “Cher”
  • Dutch: “Cher (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Cher”
  • Esperanto: “Cher”
  • Estonian: “Cheri departemang”
  • Finnish: “Cher”
  • French: “Cher”
  • French: “département du Cher”
  • French: “Département du Cher”
  • French: “FR-18”
  • Galician: “Cher”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Cher”
  • Georgian: “შერი”
  • Georgian: “შერის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Cher”
  • German: “Département Cher”
  • Greek: “Σερ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cher-sén”
  • Hebrew: “שר (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “שר”
  • Hindi: “चेर”
  • Hindi: “शेर”
  • Hungarian: “Cher”
  • Icelandic: “Cher”
  • Indonesian: “Cher”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Cher”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Cher”
  • Irish: “Cher”
  • Italian: “Cher”
  • Japanese: “シェール県”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Шер”
  • Kongo: “Cher”
  • Korean: “셰르주”
  • Ladin: “Cher”
  • Ladino: “Cher”
  • Latin: “Carus”
  • Latvian: “Šēra”
  • Limburgan: “Cher”
  • Lithuanian: “Šeras”
  • Lombard: “Cher”
  • Low German: “Cher”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Cher”
  • Macedonian: “Шер”
  • Malagasy: “Cher”
  • Malay: “Cher”
  • Marathi: “शेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cher”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cher (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cher”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cher (departement)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cher”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Cher”
  • Norwegian: “Cher”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Char”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Char”
  • Ossetian: “Шер (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Шер”
  • Pampanga: “Cher”
  • Persian: “شر”
  • Piemontese: “Cher”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Cher”
  • Polish: “Cher”
  • Portuguese: “Cher”
  • Romanian: “Cher”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Cher”
  • Russian: “Шер”
  • Russian: “Шера”
  • Scots: “Cher”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cher”
  • Serbian: “Шер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cher”
  • Sinhala: “චෙර්”
  • Slovak: “Cher”
  • Slovenian: “Cher”
  • Spanish: “Cher”
  • Swahili: “Cher”
  • Swedish: “Cher”
  • Swiss German: “Département Cher”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Шер”
  • Tamil: “செர்”
  • Telugu: “చెర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดแชร์”
  • Turkish: “Cher, Fransa”
  • Turkish: “Cher”
  • Ukrainian: “Шер”
  • Urdu: “شر”
  • Uzbek: “Cher (departament)”
  • Uzbek: “Cher”
  • Venetian: “Cher”
  • Vietnamese: “Cher, Centre-Val de Loire”
  • Vietnamese: “Cher, Centre”
  • Vietnamese: “Cher”
  • Volapük: “Cher”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cher”
  • Welsh: “Cher”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع شر”
  • Wu Chinese: “谢尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “些爾”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St-Germain du Puy Railway Station and Colin River.

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