Chalmette

Chalmette is a suburb of in , USA. Chalmette is the "Parish seat" of , known to locals simply as "The Parish".
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  • Type: Town with 16,800 residents
  • Description: unincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States
  • Also known as: Chalmette, LA”, “Chalmette, Louisiana”, and “Port Chalmette
  • Postal codes: 70043 and 70044

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chalmette High School and Chalmette National Cemetery.

School
is a public secondary school in the unincorporated Chalmette area of , United States. It is a part of St. Bernard Parish Public Schools.

Cemetery
is a United States National Cemetery located within in Chalmette, Louisiana.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arabi.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. It lies on the eastern bank of the , between the Lower 9th Ward of and Chalmette within the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area. is situated 2½ miles west of Chalmette.

Chalmette

Latitude
29.9428° or 29° 56′ 34″ north
Longitude
-89.9629° or 89° 57′ 47″ west
Population
16,800
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
United Nations Location Code
US CLQ
Open location code
76XGW2VP+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153813191
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4319518
Wiki­data ID
Q528541
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Chalmette” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تشالميت
  • Basque: Chalmette
  • Bulgarian: Чалмете
  • Catalan: Chalmette
  • Cebuano: Chalmette
  • Chechen: Чалметт
  • Chinese: Chalmette
  • Chinese: 查尔梅特
  • Dutch: Chalmette
  • French: Chalmette
  • German: Chalmette
  • Gilaki: چلمت (لۊئيزيانا)
  • Gilaki: چلمت
  • Hungarian: Chalmette
  • Irish: Chalmette
  • Italian: Chalmette
  • Japanese: シャルメット
  • Ladin: Chalmette
  • Min Nan Chinese: Chalmette
  • Persian: چالمت، لوئیزیانا
  • Persian: چالمت
  • Polish: Chalmette
  • Portuguese: Chalmette
  • Russian: Чалметт
  • Serbian: Chalmette
  • Serbian: Шалмет
  • Serbo-Croatian: Chalmette, Louisiana
  • Serbo-Croatian: Chalmette
  • South Azerbaijani: چالمت، لوئیزیانا
  • Spanish: Chalmette (Luisiana)
  • Spanish: Chalmette
  • Swedish: Chalmette
  • Tatar: Чалметт
  • Turkish: Chalmette, Louisiana
  • Turkish: Chalmette
  • Ukrainian: Чалметт
  • Urdu: شالمیٹ، لوزیانا
  • Urdu: شالمیٹ
  • Volapük: Chalmette
  • Welsh: Chalmette, Louisiana
  • Welsh: Chalmette

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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 “Chalmette”. Photo: TJM, CC BY 2.0.