Culan
Culan is a commune in the Cher département in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is best known for its 12th-15th century medieval castle, the Château de Culan, one of the oldest castles still occupied in the world.
- Type: Locality with 723 residents
- Description: commune in Cher, France
- Also known as: “18083” and “Arnon-Libre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château de Culan and Église Saint-Vincent de Culan.
Château de Culan
Castle
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reigny and Saint-Christophe-le-Chaudry.
Reigny
Village
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.Saint-Christophe-le-Chaudry
Village
Sidiailles
Village
Culan
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Saint-Claude, Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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Latitude
46.5475° or 46° 32′ 51″ north
Longitude
2.3492° or 2° 20′ 57″ east
Population
723
Elevation
269 metres (883 feet)
Open location code
8FR4G8XX+2M
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Culan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Culan”
- Aragonese: “Culan”
- Aragonese: “Culant”
- Arpitan: “Culan”
- Asturian: “Culan”
- Bambara: “Culan”
- Basque: “Culan”
- Bavarian: “Culan”
- Breton: “Culan”
- Cajun French: “Culan”
- Catalan: “Culan”
- Catalan: “Culant”
- Cebuano: “Culan”
- Chechen: “Куьлан (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Куьлан”
- Chinese: “Culan”
- Chinese: “屈朗”
- Corsican: “Culan”
- Croatian: “Culan”
- Czech: “Culan”
- Danish: “Culan”
- Dutch: “Culan”
- Esperanto: “Culan”
- Estonian: “Culan”
- Faroese: “Culan”
- Finnish: “Culan”
- French: “Arnon-Libre”
- French: “Culan”
- Friulian: “Culan”
- Galician: “Culan”
- German: “Culan”
- Hungarian: “Culan”
- Icelandic: “Culan”
- Ido: “Culan”
- Indonesian: “Culan”
- Interlingua: “Culan”
- Interlingue: “Culan”
- Irish: “Culan”
- Italian: “Culan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Culan”
- Japanese: “キュラン”
- Kabyle: “Culan”
- Kalaallisut: “Culan”
- Kongo: “Culan”
- Kurdish: “Culan”
- Ladin: “Culan”
- Latin: “Culan”
- Latvian: “Culan”
- Ligurian: “Culan”
- Limburgan: “Culan”
- Lithuanian: “Culan”
- Low German: “Culan”
- Luxembourgish: “Culan”
- Mainfränkisch: “Culan”
- Malagasy: “Culan”
- Malay: “Culan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Culan”
- Minangkabau: “Culan”
- Narom: “Culan”
- Neapolitan: “Culan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Culan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Culan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Culan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Culant”
- Papiamento: “Culan”
- Picard: “Culan”
- Piemontese: “Culan”
- Polish: “Culan”
- Portuguese: “Culan”
- Prussian: “Culan”
- Romagnol: “Culan”
- Romanian: “Culan”
- Romansh: “Culan”
- Russian: “Кюлан”
- Sardinian: “Culan”
- Scots: “Culan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Culan”
- Serbian: “Culan”
- Serbian: “Kilan”
- Serbian: “Килан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Culan”
- Sicilian: “Culan”
- Slovak: “Culan”
- Spanish: “Culan”
- Swahili: “Culan”
- Swedish: “Culan”
- Swiss German: “Culan”
- Tatar: “Кюлан (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Кюлан”
- Turkish: “Culan”
- Ukrainian: “Кюлан”
- Uzbek: “Culan”
- Venetian: “Culan”
- Vietnamese: “Culan”
- Vlaams: “Culan”
- Volapük: “Culan”
- Walloon: “Culan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Culan”
- Welsh: “Culan”
- Wolof: “Culan”
- Yue Chinese: “Culan”
- Zulu: “Culan”
- “Culan”
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