Challans
Challans is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Challans station has rail connections to Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.
Photo: Cécile Didier, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 22,500 residents
- Description: commune in Vendée, France
- Postal code: 85300
Places of Interest
Highlights: Challans station and Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Challans.
Challans station
Railway station
Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Challans
Church
Menhir dit Pierre-du-Diable
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soullans and La Garnache.
Soullans
Village
La Garnache
Village
Sallertaine
Village
Challans
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Challans, Arrondissement of Les Sables-d’Olonne, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
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Latitude
46.84781° or 46° 50′ 52″ north
Longitude
-1.87743° or 1° 52′ 39″ west
Population
22,500
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FR CAA
Open location code
8CRWR4XF+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Challans” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Challans”
- Arabic: “شلانس”
- Aragonese: “Challans”
- Arpitan: “Challans”
- Asturian: “Challans”
- Bambara: “Challans”
- Basque: “Challans”
- Bavarian: “Challans”
- Breton: “Challans”
- Cajun French: “Challans”
- Catalan: “Challans”
- Cebuano: “Challans”
- Chechen: “Шаллан”
- Chinese: “沙朗”
- Corsican: “Challans”
- Croatian: “Challans”
- Czech: “Challans”
- Danish: “Challans”
- Dimli (individual language): “Challans”
- Dutch: “Challans”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شلانس”
- Esperanto: “Challans”
- Estonian: “Challans”
- Faroese: “Challans”
- Finnish: “Challans”
- French: “Challans”
- Friulian: “Challans”
- Galician: “Challans”
- German: “Challans”
- Greek: “Σαλάν”
- Hungarian: “Challans”
- Icelandic: “Challans”
- Ido: “Challans”
- Indonesian: “Challans”
- Interlingua: “Challans”
- Interlingue: “Challans”
- Irish: “Challans”
- Italian: “Challans”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Challans”
- Japanese: “シャラン”
- Jèrriais: “Challans”
- Kabyle: “Challans”
- Kalaallisut: “Challans”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Challans”
- Kongo: “Challans”
- Ladin: “Challans”
- Latvian: “Challans”
- Ligurian: “Challans”
- Limburgan: “Challans”
- Lithuanian: “Challans”
- Low German: “Challans”
- Luxembourgish: “Challans”
- Mainfränkisch: “Challans”
- Malagasy: “Challans”
- Malay: “Challans”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Challans”
- Minangkabau: “Challans”
- Neapolitan: “Challans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Challans”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Challans”
- Norwegian: “Challans”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chaland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Challans”
- Papiamento: “Challans”
- Picard: “Challans”
- Piemontese: “Challans”
- Polish: “Challans”
- Portuguese: “Challans”
- Prussian: “Challans”
- Romagnol: “Challans”
- Romanian: “Challans”
- Romansh: “Challans”
- Russian: “Шалан”
- Russian: “Шаллан”
- Sardinian: “Challans”
- Scots: “Challans”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Challans”
- Serbian: “Challans”
- Serbian: “Шалан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Challans”
- Sicilian: “Challans”
- Slovak: “Challans”
- Spanish: “Challans”
- Swahili: “Challans”
- Swedish: “Challans”
- Swiss German: “Challans”
- Tatar: “Шаллан”
- Turkish: “Challans”
- Ukrainian: “Шаллан”
- Urdu: “شالان”
- Uzbek: “Challans”
- Venetian: “Challans”
- Vietnamese: “Challans”
- Vlaams: “Challans”
- Volapük: “Challans”
- Walloon: “Challans”
- Waray (Philippines): “Challans”
- Welsh: “Challans”
- Wolof: “Challans”
- Zulu: “Challans”
- “Challans”
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Places to explore: Résidence Le Clos des Lavandes and Résidence Les Ormeaux.
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Highlights: Les Halles and Game Center.
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