Brittany
Morbihan
Arrondissement of Lorient

Carnac

Carnac is a small town in Morbihan, . Its main claim to fame are the menhirs surrounding the town. In 2025 these stones were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Village with 4,220 residents
  • Description: commune in Morbihan, France
  • Postal codes: 56340 and 56340

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prehistory Museum of Carnac and Saint-Michel tumulus.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a megalithic grave mound, located east of Carnac in Brittany, . It is the largest grave mound in continental Europe.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Plouharnel.

Village
Photo: Palamède, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department of in north-western .

Carnac

Latitude
47.5837° or 47° 35′ 1″ north
Longitude
-3.0794° or 3° 4′ 46″ west
Population
4,220
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR NAC
Open location code
8CVRHWMC+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26697820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3028575
Wiki­data ID
Q70925
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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”
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  • Bavarian: “Carnac”
  • Belarusian: “Карнак”
  • Bengali: “কার্নাক”
  • Breton: “Karnag”
  • Cajun French: “Carnac”
  • Catalan: “Carnac”
  • Cebuano: “Carnac”
  • Chinese: “Carnac”
  • Chinese: “卡尔纳克”
  • Chinese: “卡那克”
  • Corsican: “Carnac”
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  • 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”
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  • Ido: “Carnac”
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  • Irish: “Karnag”
  • Italian: “Carnac”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Carnac”
  • Japanese: “カルナック”
  • Kabyle: “Carnac”
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  • Kazakh: “Карнак”
  • Kongo: “Carnac”
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  • Ladin: “Carnac”
  • Latin: “Carnac”
  • Latin: “Carnacum”
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  • Manx: “Karnag”
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  • Narom: “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”
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  • Russian: “Карнак”
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  • Serbian: “Карнак”
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  • Sicilian: “Carnac”
  • Slovak: “Carnac”
  • Spanish: “Alineamientos de Carnac”
  • Spanish: “Carnac”
  • Swahili: “Carnac”
  • Swedish: “Carnac”
  • Swiss German: “Carnac”
  • Tamil: “கர்னாக் கற்கள்”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Carnac”
  • Turkish: “Carnac”
  • Ukrainian: “Карнак”
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  • Welsh: “Carnac”
  • Welsh: “Karnag”
  • Wolof: “Carnac”
  • Zulu: “Carnac”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Carnac”. Photo: Kamel15, CC BY-SA 3.0.