Centre-Val de Loire
Loir-et-Cher
Arrondissement of Blois

Blois

Blois is a town in the Loir-et-Cher department of , almost equidistant between and .
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  • Type: Town with 46,800 residents
  • Description: French commune and city in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
  • Also known as: “Blesum” and “Ville de Blois”
  • Postal codes: 41000 and 41000
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château of Blois and Blois Cathedral.

Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Royal is a château located in the city center of Blois, , in the , France. In addition to having been the residence of the Counts of Blois and some French kings, Joan of Arc also went there by 1429 to be blessed by the Archbishop of Reims before departing with her army to drive out the English, who conquered the previous year.

Church
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, or the Cathedral of St. Louis of Blois, is a Late Gothic Catholic cathedral in Blois, . It has been a monument historique since 1906. It is the seat of the Diocese of Blois, established in 1697.

Railway station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The gare de Blois is a railway station serving the town Blois, department, central . It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway, between Orléans and Tours.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, commonly known as Saint-Gervais, is a commune in the French department of , administrative region of .

Blois

Latitude
47.5877° or 47° 35′ 16″ north
Longitude
1.3338° or 1° 20′ 2″ east
Population
46,800
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
IATA airport code
XBQ
United Nations Location Code
FR BLO
Open location code
8FV3H8QM+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692374
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3032213
Wiki­data ID
Q160927
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Blois” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blois”
  • Akan: “Blois”
  • Amharic: “ብሏ”
  • Arabic: “بلوا”
  • Arabic: “بلوة”
  • Aragonese: “Blois”
  • Armenian: “Բլոիս”
  • Armenian: “Բլորիս”
  • Armenian: “Բլուա”
  • Arpitan: “Blois”
  • Asturian: “Blois”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blua”
  • Bambara: “Blois”
  • Basque: “Blois”
  • Bavarian: “Blois”
  • Belarusian: “Блуа”
  • Belarusian: “Блюа”
  • Breton: “Bleaz”
  • Breton: “Blois”
  • Buginese: “Blois”
  • Bulgarian: “Блоа”
  • Cajun French: “Blois”
  • Catalan: “Bles”
  • Catalan: “Blois”
  • Cebuano: “Blois”
  • Chechen: “Блуа”
  • Chinese: “Blois”
  • Chinese: “布卢瓦”
  • Chinese: “布盧瓦”
  • Chinese: “布盧華”
  • Chuvash: “Блуа”
  • Corsican: “Blois”
  • Croatian: “Blois”
  • Czech: “Blois”
  • Dagbani: “Blois”
  • Danish: “Blois”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Blois”
  • Dutch: “Blois (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Blois”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلوه”
  • Esperanto: “Blezo”
  • Esperanto: “Blois”
  • Estonian: “Blois”
  • Faroese: “Blois”
  • Finnish: “Blois”
  • French: “Blois”
  • French: “Ville de Blois”
  • Friulian: “Blois”
  • Galician: “Blois”
  • German: “Blois”
  • Greek: “Μπλουά”
  • Hawaiian: “Blois”
  • Hebrew: “בלואה”
  • Hindi: “ब्लुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Blois”
  • Icelandic: “Blois”
  • Ido: “Blois”
  • Indonesian: “Blois”
  • Interlingua: “Blois”
  • Interlingue: “Blois”
  • Irish: “Blois”
  • Italian: “Blois”
  • Japanese: “ブロア”
  • Japanese: “ブロワ”
  • Kabyle: “Blois”
  • Kalaallisut: “Blois”
  • Kongo: “Blois”
  • Korean: “블루아”
  • Kurdish: “Blois”
  • Ladin: “Blois”
  • Latin: “Blesae”
  • Latin: “Blois”
  • Latvian: “Bluā”
  • Ligurian: “Blois”
  • Limburgan: “Blois”
  • Lithuanian: “Blois”
  • Lithuanian: “Blua”
  • Low German: “Blois”
  • Luxembourgish: “Blois”
  • Macedonian: “Блоа”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Blois”
  • Malagasy: “Blois”
  • Malagasy: “Marc Gricourt”
  • Malay: “Blois”
  • Marathi: “ब्लुआ”
  • Mazanderani: “بلوآ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blois”
  • Minangkabau: “Blois”
  • Narom: “Blois”
  • Neapolitan: “Blois”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blois”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blois”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blois”
  • Norwegian: “Blois”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Blois”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Blais”
  • Ossetian: “Блуа”
  • Papiamento: “Blois”
  • Persian: “بلوآ”
  • Persian: “بلوا”
  • Picard: “Bloés”
  • Piemontese: “Blois”
  • Polish: “Blois”
  • Portuguese: “Blois”
  • Prussian: “Blois”
  • Romagnol: “Blois”
  • Romanian: “Blois”
  • Romansh: “Blois”
  • Russian: “Blois”
  • Russian: “Блуа”
  • Sardinian: “Blois”
  • Scots: “Blois”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blois”
  • Serbian: “Bloa”
  • Serbian: “Blois”
  • Serbian: “Блоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blois”
  • Sicilian: “Blois”
  • Silesian: “Blois”
  • Slovak: “Blois”
  • Slovenian: “Blois”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلوآ”
  • Spanish: “Blois”
  • Swahili: “Blois”
  • Swedish: “Blois”
  • Swiss German: “Blois”
  • Tatar: “Блуа”
  • Thai: “Blois”
  • Thai: “บลัว”
  • Thai: “บลัวส์”
  • Turkish: “Blois”
  • Ukrainian: “Блуа”
  • Urdu: “بلوا”
  • Uzbek: “Blois”
  • Venetian: “Blois”
  • Vietnamese: “Blois”
  • Vlaams: “Blois”
  • Volapük: “Blois”
  • Walloon: “Blois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blois”
  • Welsh: “Blois”
  • Wolof: “Blois”
  • Wu Chinese: “布卢瓦”
  • Yiddish: “בלויס”
  • Yue Chinese: “鮑樂斯”
  • Zulu: “Blois”
  • “Blois”

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