Centre-Val de Loire
Cher
Arrondissement of Bourges

Bourges

Bourges is a commune in central on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of , and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry. It is part of the region of France.
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  • Type: Town with 63,700 residents
  • Description: French commune and prefecture of Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
  • Postal codes: 18000 and 18000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bourges Cathedral and Bourges station.

Church
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or the Cathedral of Saint Stephen of Bourges is a Roman Catholic church located in Bourges, . The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen and is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town Bourges, department, central .

Town hall
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Bourges, , central France, standing on Rue Jacques Rimbault.

Bourges

Latitude
47.0812° or 47° 4′ 52″ north
Longitude
2.3991° or 2° 23′ 57″ east
Population
63,700
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
IATA airport code
BOU
United Nations Location Code
FR BOU
Open location code
8FV439JX+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692403
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3031005
Wiki­data ID
Q132404
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bourges” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bourges”
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  • Albanian: “Bourges”
  • Amharic: “ቡርዥ”
  • Arabic: “بورج”
  • Arabic: “بورجيز”
  • Aragonese: “Bourges”
  • Aragonese: “Burch”
  • Armenian: “Բուրժ”
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  • Azerbaijani: “Burj”
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  • Belarusian: “Бурж”
  • Breton: “Bourges”
  • Breton: “Bourjez”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурж”
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  • Cebuano: “Bourges”
  • Chechen: “БугӀж”
  • Chinese: “Bourges”
  • Chinese: “博格斯”
  • Chinese: “布尔日”
  • Chinese: “布爾日”
  • Chuvash: “Бурж”
  • Corsican: “Bourges”
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  • Danish: “Bourges”
  • Dutch: “Avaricum Biturigum”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورج”
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  • Finnish: “Bourges”
  • French: “Auaricum”
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  • Georgian: “ბურჟი”
  • German: “Avaricum”
  • German: “Bourges”
  • Greek: “Μπουρζ”
  • Hebrew: “בורז‘”
  • Hebrew: “בורז’”
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  • Hungarian: “Bourges”
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  • Irish: “Bourges”
  • Italian: “Avarico”
  • Italian: “Bourges”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bourges”
  • Japanese: “ブールジュ”
  • Japanese: “ブルジュ”
  • Kabyle: “Bourges”
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  • Kirghiz: “Бурж”
  • Kongo: “Bourges”
  • Korean: “부르주”
  • Kurdish: “Bourges”
  • Ladin: “Bourges”
  • Latin: “Avaricum Biturigum”
  • Latin: “Avaricum”
  • Latin: “Bitorex”
  • Latin: “Bituricum”
  • Latvian: “Burža”
  • Ligurian: “Bourges”
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  • Lithuanian: “Buržas”
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  • Macedonian: “Бурж”
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  • Mazanderani: “بورژ”
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  • Norwegian: “Bourges”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Borges”
  • Ossetian: “Бурж”
  • Papiamento: “Bourges”
  • Persian: “بورژ”
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  • Romansh: “Bourges”
  • Russian: “Бурж”
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  • Serbian: “Bourges”
  • Serbian: “Burž”
  • Serbian: “Бурж”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “بورژ”
  • Spanish: “Bourges”
  • Swahili: “Bourges”
  • Swedish: “Avaricum”
  • Swedish: “Bourges”
  • Swiss German: “Bourges”
  • Tatar: “Бурж”
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  • Turkish: “Bourges”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурж”
  • Urdu: “بوغج”
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  • Welsh: “Bourges”
  • Wolof: “Bourges”
  • Wu Chinese: “布尔日”
  • Yue Chinese: “布爾日”
  • Zulu: “Bourges”
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