Carnac
Carnac is a small town in Morbihan, Brittany. Its main claim to fame are the menhirs surrounding the town. In 2025 these stones were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Village with about 4,190 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (50 feet)
- Description: commune in Morbihan, France
- Postal code: 56340
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prehistory Museum of Carnac and Saint-Michel tumulus.
Prehistory Museum of Carnac
The Musée de Préhistoire de Carnac is a single-theme…
Saint-Michel tumulus
The Saint-Michel tumulus is a megalithic grave mound, located east of Carnac in Brittany, France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plouharnel and La Trinité-sur-Mer.
Plouharnel
Plouharnel is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
La Trinité-sur-Mer
La Trinité-sur-Mer is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany, in north-western France. La Trinité-sur-Mer is situated 4 km east of Carnac.
Carnac
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Latitude
47.5837° or 47° 35′ 1″ north
Longitude
-3.0794° or 3° 4′ 46″ west
UN/LOCODE
FR NAC
Open location code
8CVRHWMC+F6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Carnac” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Carnac”
- Arabic: “كارناك”
- Aragonese: “Carnac”
- Aragonese: “Karnag”
- Arpitan: “Carnac”
- Asturian: “Carnac”
- Bambara: “Carnac”
- Basque: “Carnac”
- Bavarian: “Carnac”
- Belarusian: “Карнак”
- Bengali: “কার্নাক”
- Breton: “Karnag”
- Cajun French: “Carnac”
- Catalan: “Carnac”
- Cebuano: “Carnac”
- Chechen: “КагӀнак”
- Chinese: “卡尔纳克”
- Chinese: “卡那克”
- Corsican: “Carnac”
- Croatian: “Carnac”
- Czech: “Carnac”
- Danish: “Carnac”
- Dutch: “Carnac”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارناك”
- Esperanto: “Carnac”
- Esperanto: “Karnag”
- Estonian: “Carnac”
- Faroese: “Carnac”
- Finnish: “Carnac”
- French: “Carnac”
- French: “Karnag”
- French: “Saint-Colomban-Carnac”
- Friulian: “Carnac”
- Galician: “Carnac”
- German: “Carnac”
- Hebrew: “קרנאק”
- Hungarian: “Carnac”
- Icelandic: “Carnac”
- Ido: “Carnac”
- Indonesian: “Carnac”
- Interlingua: “Carnac”
- Interlingue: “Carnac”
- Irish: “Karnag”
- Italian: “Carnac”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Carnac”
- Japanese: “カルナック”
- Jèrriais: “Carnac”
- Kabyle: “Carnac”
- Kalaallisut: “Carnac”
- Kazakh: “Карнак”
- Kongo: “Carnac”
- Kurdish: “Carnac”
- Ladin: “Carnac”
- Latin: “Carnac”
- Latin: “Carnacum”
- Latvian: “Carnac”
- Ligurian: “Carnac”
- Limburgan: “Carnac”
- Lithuanian: “Karnakas”
- Low German: “Carnac”
- Luxembourgish: “Carnac”
- Mainfränkisch: “Carnac”
- Malagasy: “Carnac”
- Malay: “Carnac”
- Manx: “Karnag”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carnac”
- Minangkabau: “Carnac”
- Neapolitan: “Carnac”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carnac-steinene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carnac”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carnac”
- Norwegian: “Carnac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Karnag”
- Papiamento: “Carnac”
- Persian: “کارناک”
- Persian: “کرنس”
- Picard: “Carnac”
- Piemontese: “Carnac”
- Polish: “Carnac”
- Portuguese: “Carnac”
- Prussian: “Carnac”
- Romagnol: “Carnac”
- Romanian: “Carnac”
- Romansh: “Carnac”
- Russian: “Карнак”
- Sardinian: “Carnac”
- Scots: “Carnac”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Carnac”
- Serbian: “Carnac”
- Serbian: “Карнак”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carnac”
- Sicilian: “Carnac”
- Slovak: “Carnac”
- Spanish: “Alineamientos de Carnac”
- Spanish: “Carnac”
- Swahili: “Carnac”
- Swedish: “Carnac”
- Swiss German: “Carnac”
- Tamil: “கர்னாக் கற்கள்”
- Turkish: “Carnac”
- Ukrainian: “Карнак”
- Urdu: “کارناک”
- Uzbek: “Carnac”
- Venetian: “Carnac”
- Vietnamese: “Carnac”
- Vlaams: “Carnac”
- Volapük: “Carnac”
- Walloon: “Carnac”
- Waray (Philippines): “Carnac”
- Welsh: “Carnac”
- Welsh: “Karnag”
- Wolof: “Carnac”
- Zulu: “Carnac”
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