Cantal
Cantal is a rural department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, with its prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour and Mauriac; its residents are known as Cantalians.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of France with 144,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Neighbors: Aveyron, Lot, Lozère, and Puy-de-Dôme
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puy de la Tourte and Pas de Peyrol.
Pas de Peyrol
Mountain saddle
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Pas de Peyrol is a mountain pass located in Auvergne, France, and is the highest road pass in the Massif Central. The pass is on the slopes of Puy Mary and is situated at the junction of three roads:…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Falgoux and Le Claux.
Le Claux
Village
Photo: Cantalou, Public domain.
Le Claux is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. It is located in Auvergne, in the department of Cantal. It is located in the Massif central, specifically in the monts du Cantal. Le Claux is situated 5 km northeast of Cantal.
Le Fau
Village
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Le Fau is a commune in the Cantal department in Auvergne, south-central France. It is a small community built around winter sports and tourism. It has a campsite at the Domaine Lissart de Miège. Le Fau is situated 7 km southwest of Cantal.
Cantal
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cantal” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cantal”
- Albanian: “Cantal”
- Arabic: “قنطال”
- Arabic: “كانتال”
- Arabic: “كنتال”
- Aragonese: “Cantal”
- Armenian: “Կանտալ”
- Arpitan: “Cantal”
- Arpitan: “Chantâl”
- Asturian: “Cantal”
- Azerbaijani: “Kantal”
- Basque: “Cantal”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Канталь”
- Belarusian: “Канталь (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Канталь”
- Bengali: “ক্যান্টাল”
- Breton: “Cantal”
- Bulgarian: “Кантал”
- Catalan: “Cantal”
- Cebuano: “Cantal”
- Chechen: “Канталь”
- Chinese: “Cantal”
- Chinese: “康塔尔省”
- Chinese: “康塔爾”
- Chinese: “康塔爾省”
- Chuvash: “Канталь”
- Corsican: “Cantal”
- Czech: “Cantal”
- Danish: “Cantal”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cantal”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kantal”
- Dutch: “Cantal (departement)”
- Dutch: “Cantal”
- Esperanto: “Cantal”
- Estonian: “Cantali departemang”
- Finnish: “Cantal”
- French: “Cantal”
- French: “département du 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: “कैंटाल”
- Hungarian: “Cantal”
- Indonesian: “Cantal”
- Interlingua: “Cantal”
- Interlingua: “Departimento 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 (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Cantal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cantal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cantal”
- Norwegian: “Cantal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cantal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cantau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Cantal”
- Ossetian: “Канталь”
- Pampanga: “Cantal”
- Persian: “کانتال”
- Piemontese: “Cantal”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Cantal”
- Polish: “Cantal”
- Portuguese: “Cantal”
- Romanian: “Cantal”
- Romanian: “departamentul 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”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Кантал”
- Tamil: “காண்டல்”
- Telugu: “కాంటాల్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดก็องตาล”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Cantal”
- 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”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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