Cher
Cher is a department in central France, part of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Named after the river Cher, its prefecture is Bourges. In 2019, it had a population of 302,306.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of France with 299,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Cher (department)”
- Neighbors: Nièvre and Yonne
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gare de Saint-Germain-du-Puy and Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-du-Puy.
Gare de Saint-Germain-du-Puy
Railway station
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Gare de Saint-Germain-du-Puy is a railway station.
Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-du-Puy
Church
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Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-du-Puy is a church.
Église Sainte-Solange de Sainte-Solange
Church
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Église Sainte-Solange de Sainte-Solange 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.
Moulins-sur-Yèvre
Village
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Moulins-sur-Yèvre is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Saint-Michel-de-Volangis
Village
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Saint-Michel-de-Volangis is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Saint-Michel-de-Volangis is situated 4 km north of Cher.
Osmoy
Village
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Osmoy is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Osmoy is situated 4½ km south of Cher.
Cher
- Location: Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “Cher”
- Chinese: “些爾”
- 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”
- Hungarian: “Cher”
- Icelandic: “Cher”
- Indonesian: “Cher”
- Interlingua: “Departimento 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”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Шер”
- Tamil: “செர்”
- Telugu: “చెర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแชร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Cher”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Le Grand Nérigny and Maubranche.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St-Germain du Puy Railway Station and Colin River.
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