Cher
The Cher is a river in central France, a left tributary of the Loire, with a length of 365.1 km, and a basin area of 13,718 km2. The source is in the Creuse department, north-east of Crocq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in central France
- Also known as: “Cher River” and “La Cher Rivière”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château de la Farinière and Cinq-Mars pile.
Cinq-Mars pile
Photo: Duch.seb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cinq-Mars pile is an ancient tower that overlooks the Loire Valley in the commune of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, located in Indre-et-Loire, approximately twenty kilometers west of Tours.
Gare de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile
Railway station
Photo: Cramos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gare de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langeais and Azay-le-Rideau.
Langeais
Photo: Claude villetaneuse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Langeais is a city on the Loire river in Centre-Val de Loire.
Azay-le-Rideau
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
Azay-le-Rideau is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central-west France.
Cher
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Cher from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Cher” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Շեր”
- Asturian: “Ríu Cher”
- Basque: “Cher”
- Belarusian: “Рака Шэр”
- Belarusian: “Шэр”
- Breton: “Cher”
- Bulgarian: “Шер (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Шер”
- Catalan: “Cher”
- Catalan: “Riu Cher”
- Cebuano: “Cher”
- Chinese: “謝爾河”
- Chinese: “谢尔河”
- Czech: “Cher”
- Danish: “Cher”
- Dutch: “Cher (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Cher”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تشير”
- Esperanto: “Cher”
- Estonian: “Cheri jõgi”
- Finnish: “Cher”
- French: “Cher”
- Georgian: “შერი”
- German: “Cher”
- Greek: “Σερ”
- Hungarian: “Cher”
- Irish: “Cher”
- Italian: “Cher”
- Japanese: “シェール川”
- Latin: “Caris”
- Latin: “Carus”
- Latvian: “Šēra”
- Lithuanian: “Šeras”
- Luxembourgish: “Cher”
- Macedonian: “Шер”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Cher”
- Norwegian: “Cher”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Char”
- Persian: “شر”
- Piemontese: “Cher”
- Polish: “Cher”
- Portuguese: “Cher”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cher”
- Romanian: “Cher”
- Romanian: “Raul Cher”
- Romanian: “Râul Cher”
- Russian: “Кар”
- Russian: “Карус”
- Russian: “Шер (река)”
- Russian: “Шер”
- Serbian: “Šer”
- Serbian: “Шер”
- Slovenian: “Cher”
- South Azerbaijani: “شر چایی”
- Spanish: “Cher”
- Spanish: “rio Cher”
- Spanish: “río Cher”
- Spanish: “Río Cher”
- Swedish: “Cher”
- Turkish: “Cher Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Шер”
- Venetian: “Fiume Cher”
- Welsh: “Afon Cher”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Cher”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Villandry and Cinq-Mars-la-Pile.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cinq-Mars Railway Station and Château de Villandry.
Centre-Val de Loire: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Orléans, Tours, Chartres, and Bourges.
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