Blois
Blois is a town in the Loir-et-Cher department of Centre-Val de Loire, almost equidistant between Tours and Orléans.
- Type: Town with 46,800 residents
- Description: French commune and city in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
- Also known as: “Blesum”, “Blezo”, “Blois (stad)”, “Ville de Blois”, “Բլորիս”, “บลัวส์”, and “ブロア”
- Postal code: 41000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château of Blois and Saint Louis Cathedral of Blois.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt.
Blois
- Categories: commune of France, city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
FR BLO
Open location code
8FV3H8QM+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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: “Blois”
- Cebuano: “Blois”
- Chechen: “Блуа”
- Chinese: “布卢瓦”
- Chinese: “布盧瓦”
- Chuvash: “Блуа”
- Corsican: “Blois”
- Croatian: “Blois”
- Czech: “Blois”
- Dagbani: “Blois”
- Danish: “Blois”
- Dimli (individual language): “Blois”
- Dutch: “Blois”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلوه”
- Esperanto: “Blois”
- Estonian: “Blois”
- Faroese: “Blois”
- Finnish: “Blois”
- French: “Blois”
- Friulian: “Blois”
- Galician: “Blois”
- German: “Blois”
- Greek: “Μπλουά”
- Hawaiian: “Blois”
- Hebrew: “בלואה”
- Hindi: “ब्लुआ”
- Hindi: “ब्ल्वा”
- Hungarian: “Blois”
- Icelandic: “Blois”
- Ido: “Blois”
- Indonesian: “Blois”
- Interlingua: “Blois”
- Interlingue: “Blois”
- Irish: “Blois”
- Italian: “Blois”
- Japanese: “ブロワ”
- Jèrriais: “Blois”
- Kabyle: “Blois”
- Kalaallisut: “Blois”
- Kongo: “Blois”
- Korean: “블루아”
- Kurdish: “Blois”
- Ladin: “Blois”
- Latin: “Blesae”
- Latvian: “Bluā”
- Ligurian: “Blois”
- Limburgan: “Blois”
- Lithuanian: “Blua”
- Low German: “Blois”
- Luxembourgish: “Blois”
- Macedonian: “Блоа”
- Mainfränkisch: “Blois”
- Malagasy: “Blois”
- Malay: “Blois”
- Marathi: “ब्लुआ”
- Mazanderani: “بلوآ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Blois”
- Minangkabau: “Blois”
- Neapolitan: “Blois”
- Northern Frisian: “Blois”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blois”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blois”
- Norwegian: “Blois”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bles”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Blais”
- Ossetian: “Блуа”
- Papiamento: “Blois”
- Persian: “بلوآ”
- Picard: “Bloés”
- Piemontese: “Blois”
- Polish: “Blois”
- Portuguese: “Blois”
- Prussian: “Blois”
- Romagnol: “Blois”
- Romanian: “Blois”
- Romansh: “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: “บลัว”
- Tumbuka: “Blois”
- 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: “布盧華”
- Yue Chinese: “鮑樂斯”
- Zulu: “Blois”
- “Blois”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Résidence des Carmélites and Les Granges.
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Worth a closer look: Orléans and Tours.
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