Sansan
Sansan is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. The vicinity of Sansan is known for its Miocene fossil deposits where geologist Edouard Lartet unearthed the jaw of the primate Pliopithecus antiquus in 1837.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 97 residents
- Description: commune in Gers, France
- Also known as: “32411” and “Sansan, Gers”
- Postal code: 32260
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sansan paleontological site and Château d’Orbessan.
Sansan paleontological site
The Sansan paleontological site is a Miocene fossil deposit in Sansan, in the French department of Gers. Searched by Edouard Lartet until 1847, it was considered useful for Science and is registered by the Inventaire national du Patrimoine Géologique as an international-level site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ornézan and Orbessan.
Ornézan
Village
Photo: Tudwald47, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ornézan is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
Orbessan
Village
Photo: Culex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orbessan is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
Traversères
Village
Photo: Culex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Traversères is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Traversères is situated 3½ km east of Sansan.
Sansan
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Mirande, Gers, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.5314° or 43° 31′ 53″ northLongitude
0.6083° or 0° 36′ 30″ eastPopulation
97Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)Open location code
8FM2GJJ5+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 393475654OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6616531Wikidata ID
Q380721
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sansan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sansan”
- Aragonese: “Sansan”
- Arpitan: “Sansan”
- Asturian: “Sansan”
- Bambara: “Sansan”
- Basque: “Sançan”
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- Bavarian: “Sansan”
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- Buginese: “Sansan”
- Cajun French: “Sansan”
- Catalan: “Sançan”
- Catalan: “Sansan”
- Cebuano: “Sansan”
- Chechen: “Сансан (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Сансан”
- Chinese: “Sansan, Gers”
- Chinese: “Sansan”
- Chinese: “桑桑”
- Corsican: “Sansan”
- Croatian: “Sansan”
- Czech: “Sansan”
- Danish: “Sansan”
- Dutch: “Sansan”
- Esperanto: “Sansan”
- Estonian: “Sansan”
- Faroese: “Sansan”
- Finnish: “Sansan”
- French: “Sansan”
- Friulian: “Sansan”
- Galician: “Sansan”
- German: “Fossillagerstätte Sansan”
- German: “Sansan”
- Hungarian: “Sansan”
- Icelandic: “Sansan”
- Ido: “Sansan”
- Indonesian: “Sansan”
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- Italian: “Sansan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sansan”
- Kabyle: “Sansan”
- Kalaallisut: “Sansan”
- Kongo: “Sansan”
- Kurdish: “Sansan, Gers”
- Kurdish: “Sansan”
- Ladin: “Sansan”
- Latin: “Sansan”
- Latvian: “Sansan”
- Ligurian: “Sansan”
- Limburgan: “Sansan”
- Lithuanian: “Sansan”
- Low German: “Sansan”
- Luxembourgish: “Sansan”
- Mainfränkisch: “Sansan”
- Malagasy: “Chantal Tachoires”
- Malagasy: “Sansan”
- Malay: “Sansan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sansan”
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- Narom: “Sansan”
- Neapolitan: “Sansan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sansan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sansan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sançan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sansan”
- Papiamento: “Sansan”
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- Piemontese: “Sansan”
- Polish: “Sansan”
- Portuguese: “Sansan”
- Prussian: “Sansan”
- Romagnol: “Sansan”
- Romanian: “Sansan”
- Romansh: “Sansan”
- Russian: “Сансан”
- Sardinian: “Sansan”
- Scots: “Sansan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sansan”
- Serbian: “Sansan”
- Sicilian: “Sansan”
- Slovak: “Sansan”
- Spanish: “Sansan”
- Swahili: “Sansan”
- Swedish: “Sansan”
- Swiss German: “Sansan”
- Tatar: “Сансан (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Сансан”
- Turkish: “Sansan”
- Ukrainian: “Сансан”
- Uzbek: “Sansan”
- Venetian: “Sansan”
- Vietnamese: “Sansan”
- Vlaams: “Sansan”
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- Walloon: “Sansan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sansan”
- Welsh: “Sansan”
- Wolof: “Sansan”
- Yue Chinese: “Sansan”
- Zulu: “Sansan”
- “Sansan”
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