Cantal

Cantal is a rural department in the region of France, with its prefecture in . Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour and ; its residents are known as Cantalians.
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  • Type: department of France with 144,000 residents
  • Description: French department
  • Also known as: “Cantal (departement)”, “Cantau”, “departamentul Cantal”, “département du Cantal”, “Канталь (дэпартамент)”, “قنطال”, and “كانتال”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Puy de la Tourte and Suc de la Blatte.

Volcano
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is a volcano.

Volcano
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is a volcano.

Peak
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is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Le Falgoux and Le Claux.

Village
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is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central .

Village
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is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central . is situated 5 km northeast of Cantal.

Village
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is a commune in the Cantal department in Auvergne, south-central . is situated 7 km southwest of Cantal.

Cantal

Latitude
45.1399° or 45° 8′ 24″ north
Longitude
2.6495° or 2° 38′ 58″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)
Open location code
8FQ44JQX+WQ
Geo­Names ID
3028791
Wiki­data ID
Q3259
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cantal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cantal”
  • Albanian: “Cantal”
  • Arabic: “كنتال”
  • Aragonese: “Cantal”
  • Armenian: “Կանտալ”
  • Arpitan: “Cantal”
  • Arpitan: “Chantâl”
  • Asturian: “Cantal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kantal”
  • Basque: “Cantal”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Канталь”
  • Belarusian: “Канталь”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টাল”
  • Breton: “Cantal”
  • Bulgarian: “Кантал”
  • Catalan: “Cantal”
  • Cebuano: “Cantal”
  • Chechen: “Канталь”
  • Chinese: “康塔尔省”
  • Chinese: “康塔爾省”
  • Chuvash: “Канталь”
  • Corsican: “Cantal”
  • Czech: “Cantal”
  • Danish: “Cantal”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cantal”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kantal”
  • Dutch: “Cantal”
  • Esperanto: “Cantal”
  • Estonian: “Cantali departemang”
  • Finnish: “Cantal”
  • French: “Cantal”
  • French: “Département du Cantal”
  • Galician: “Cantal”
  • Georgian: “კანტალი”
  • German: “Cantal”
  • German: “Département Cantal”
  • Greek: “Καντάλ”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટલ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cantal-sén”
  • Hebrew: “קנטל”
  • Hindi: “काँताल”
  • Hindi: “कैंटाल”
  • Hungarian: “Cantal”
  • Indonesian: “Cantal”
  • Interlingua: “Cantal”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Cantal”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Cantal”
  • Interlingue: “Département Cantal”
  • Irish: “Cantal”
  • Italian: “Cantal”
  • Japanese: “カンタル県”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಟಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Канталь”
  • Kongo: “Cantal”
  • Korean: “캉탈주”
  • Ladin: “Cantal”
  • Ladino: “Cantal”
  • Latin: “Mons Cantalinus”
  • Latin: “Mons Celtorum”
  • Latvian: “Kantāla”
  • Limburgan: “Cantal”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantalis”
  • Lombard: “Cantal”
  • Low German: “Cantal”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Cantal”
  • Macedonian: “Кантал”
  • Malagasy: “Cantal”
  • Malay: “Cantal”
  • Marathi: “कांतॅल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cantal”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cantal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cantal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cantal”
  • Norwegian: “Cantal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cantal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Cantal”
  • Ossetian: “Канталь”
  • Pampanga: “Cantal”
  • Persian: “کانتال”
  • Piemontese: “Cantal”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Cantal”
  • Polish: “Cantal”
  • Portuguese: “Cantal”
  • Romanian: “Cantal”
  • Russian: “Канталь”
  • Scots: “Cantal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cantal”
  • Serbian: “Кантал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cantal”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ටල්”
  • Slovak: “Cantal”
  • Slovenian: “Cantal”
  • Spanish: “Cantal”
  • Swahili: “Cantal”
  • Swedish: “Cantal”
  • Swiss German: “Département Cantal”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Кантал”
  • Tamil: “காண்டல்”
  • Telugu: “కాంటాల్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดก็องตาล”
  • Turkish: “Cantal”
  • Ukrainian: “Канталь”
  • Urdu: “کانتال”
  • Uzbek: “Cantal”
  • Venetian: “Cantal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cantal”
  • Volapük: “Cantal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cantal”
  • Welsh: “Cantal”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کنٹال”
  • Wu Chinese: “康塔尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “康塔爾”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Cantal”.

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: La Chaze and La Franconèche.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Forêt de Falgoux and Suc Gros.

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