Buoy
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Photo: Andrea Pravettoni, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,070 residents
- Description: floating device
- Also known as: “Bouee” and “buoy”
- Postal codes: 44260 and 44260
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eglise Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception de Bouée and Moulin de Rochoux.
Eglise Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception de Bouée
Church
Photo: Pymouss44, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eglise Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception de Bouée is a church.
Moulin de la Pâquelais
Windmill
Photo: Fhiv, Public domain.
Moulin de la Pâquelais is a windmill, which is situated 2½ km north of Buoy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cordemais and Savenay.
Cordemais
Village
Photo: KaTeznik, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Cordemais is a commune situated in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Cordemais is situated 4 km southeast of Buoy.
Savenay
Village
Photo: KaTeznik, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Savenay is a town in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France which is part of the Pays de la Loire region. It is located on the Sillon de Bretagne and overlooks the marshes of the Loire river, seven kilometers to its south. Savenay is situated 5 km northwest of Buoy.
Prinquiau
Village
Photo: Liberliger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Prinquiau is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Prinquiau is situated 9 km northwest of Buoy.
Buoy
- Categories: float, beacon, and locality
- Location: Bouée, Arrondissement of Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.32024° or 47° 19′ 13″ northLongitude
-1.91019° or 1° 54′ 37″ westPopulation
1,070Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR BUEOpen location code
8CVW83CQ+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 442848346OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Buoy” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Bova”
- Arabic: “طافية”
- Arabic: “عوامة بحرية”
- Armenian: “Բույ”
- Azerbaijani: “Buy”
- Basque: “Buia”
- Belarusian: “Буй”
- Breton: “Balizenn”
- Breton: “Bozeg”
- Bulgarian: “Шамандура”
- Burmese: “ဗော်ယာ”
- Burmese: “ရေကြောင်းမှတ်”
- Catalan: “boia”
- Catalan: “Boia”
- Chinese: “浮标”
- Chinese: “浮標”
- Croatian: “Plutača”
- Czech: “bóje”
- Czech: “Bóje”
- Czech: “bójka”
- Danish: “Bøje”
- Dutch: “boei”
- Dutch: “Boei”
- Esperanto: “buo”
- Esperanto: “Buo”
- Estonian: “Poi”
- Finnish: “poiju”
- Finnish: “Poiju”
- French: “bouée”
- French: “Bouée”
- German: “Boje”
- Greek: “Σημαδούρα”
- Greek: “Σημαντήρας”
- Greek: “Τσαμαδούρα”
- Hebrew: “מצוף”
- Hindi: “उत्प्लव”
- Hungarian: “bója”
- Icelandic: “Bauja”
- Ido: “Boyo”
- Indonesian: “Boya”
- Irish: “baoi”
- Irish: “Baoi”
- Italian: “boa”
- Italian: “Boa”
- Japanese: “浮標”
- Kirghiz: “Буй”
- Korean: “부표”
- Latin: “Bouée”
- Latvian: “Boja”
- Lithuanian: “Plūduras”
- Macedonian: “бова”
- Macedonian: “пловка”
- Macedonian: “Пловка”
- Malay: “Boya”
- Northern Frisian: “Siatiaken”
- Northern Frisian: “Tanen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “bøye”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “bøye”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bøye”
- Norwegian: “Bøye”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gavitèl”
- Persian: “بویه های شناور”
- Persian: “بویهٔ های شناور”
- Persian: “بویه”
- Persian: “بویههای شناور”
- Polish: “boja”
- Polish: “Boja”
- Portuguese: “boia”
- Portuguese: “Boia”
- Portuguese: “Bóia”
- Portuguese: “Marca”
- Romanian: “geamandură”
- Romanian: “Geamandură”
- Russian: “буй”
- Russian: “Буй”
- Russian: “томбуй”
- Serbian: “Бова”
- Shan: “တေႃၼႄတၢင်း”
- Shan: “တေႃၽူး”
- Slovak: “bója”
- Slovak: “Bója”
- Slovenian: “boja”
- Slovenian: “Boja”
- Spanish: “boya”
- Spanish: “Boya”
- Swahili: “Boya”
- Swedish: “boj”
- Swedish: “Boj”
- Tamil: “மிதவை”
- Thai: “ทุ่น”
- Turkish: “Şamandıra (denizcilik)”
- Turkish: “Şamandıra”
- Udmurt: “буй”
- Ukrainian: “Буй”
- Uzbek: “Buy”
- Welsh: “Bwi”
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