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Aude is a department in , . Its tourist office promotes it as "Cathar country"; it was one of the main areas of Cathar influence until the Albigensian Crusade against them in the 13th century.
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is a city in southern , best known for its UNESCO World Heritage listed walled city. It can be visited comfortably as a day trip. Among board game enthusiasts, the city may ring a bell as the inspiration for the 2000 German board game of the same name.

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is a city in Aude, , , in the heart of the Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Natural Park. also has other listed natural sites, such as the Clape massif and the Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide abbey, as well as the Bages-Sigean pond.

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is in Aude in the south of France. The town has been known since the 16th century for the production of a renowned sparkling wine, blanquette de .

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is a Mediterranean coastal town in the Aude region of , southern .

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is just the other side of the hot springs of Rennes les Bains from Fourtou and La Mouline. It is the home of the world-famous enigma highlighted by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

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is a small village in the Aude region of south-west .

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is a commune in the Aude department in southern .

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is a village of 800 people in the Languedoc region of the south of , inland between Narbonne and Perpignan, in the heart of a wine-producing region.

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is a small village of only a few hundred people in Aude, a Department of Languedoc-Rousillon in . is set in the heartland of the wine-growing Corbieres district.

Aude

Latitude of center
43.0833° or 43° 5′ north
Longitude of center
2.5° or 2° 30′ east
Population
378,000
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3036264
Wiki­data ID
Q3207
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Aude” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aude”
  • Albanian: “Aude”
  • Arabic: “أود”
  • Aragonese: “Aude”
  • Armenian: “Օդ”
  • Arpitan: “Ôde”
  • Asturian: “Aude”
  • Azerbaijani: “Od (departament)”
  • Basque: “Aude”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Од”
  • Belarusian: “Од (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Од (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Од”
  • Bengali: “ওদ”
  • Breton: “Aude”
  • Bulgarian: “Од”
  • Catalan: “Aude”
  • Cebuano: “Aude”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئود”
  • Chechen: “Од (департамент)”
  • Chechen: “Од”
  • Chinese: “Aude”
  • Chinese: “奥德省”
  • Chinese: “奧德”
  • Chinese: “奧德省”
  • Chuvash: “Од”
  • Czech: “Aude”
  • Danish: “Aude”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aude”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Od”
  • Dutch: “Aude (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Aude”
  • Esperanto: “Aude”
  • Estonian: “Aude’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Aude”
  • French: “Aude”
  • French: “département de l’Aude”
  • French: “FR-11”
  • Galician: “Aude”
  • Georgian: “ოდი”
  • Georgian: “ოდის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Aude”
  • German: “Département Aude”
  • Greek: “Ωντ”
  • Gujarati: “ઔડ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aude-sén”
  • Hebrew: “אוד”
  • Hindi: “ओडे”
  • Hungarian: “Aude”
  • Indonesian: “Aude”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Aude”
  • Irish: “Aude”
  • Italian: “Aude”
  • Japanese: “オード県”
  • Kannada: “ಔಡೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Од”
  • Kongo: “Aude”
  • Korean: “오드주”
  • Ladin: “Aude”
  • Ladino: “Aude”
  • Latin: “Atax”
  • Latvian: “Oda”
  • Limburgan: “Aude”
  • Lithuanian: “Odas”
  • Lombard: “Aude”
  • Low German: “Aude”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Aude”
  • Macedonian: “Од”
  • Malay: “Aude”
  • Maltese: “Aude”
  • Marathi: “ऑद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aude”
  • Mongolian: “Од аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Од”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aude (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aude”
  • Northern Sami: “Aude”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aude”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aude”
  • Norwegian: “Aude”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aude”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament d’Aude”
  • Ossetian: “Од (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Од”
  • Pampanga: “Aude”
  • Persian: “اود”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Aude”
  • Polish: “Aude”
  • Portuguese: “Aude”
  • Romanian: “Aude”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Aude”
  • Russian: “Од”
  • Scots: “Aude”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aude”
  • Serbian: “Од”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aude”
  • Sinhala: “ඖඩේ”
  • Slovak: “Aude”
  • Slovenian: “Aude”
  • Spanish: “Aude”
  • Swahili: “Aude”
  • Swedish: “Aude”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Од”
  • Tamil: “ஆடி”
  • Telugu: “ఆడ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอด”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Aude”
  • Turkish: “Aude”
  • Ukrainian: “Од”
  • Urdu: “اود”
  • Uzbek: “Aude”
  • Venetian: “Aude”
  • Vietnamese: “Aude”
  • Vlaams: “Aude”
  • Volapük: “Aude”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aude”
  • Welsh: “Aude”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اود”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥德省”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧德”
  • Zeeuws: “Aude”

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