Charente
Charente is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Angoulême.
Angoulême
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Angoulême is the capital of the Charente department. It lies about 135 km north of Bordeaux in south west France.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Sainte-Eulalie and Angoulême – Cognac International Airport.
Angoulême – Cognac International Airport
Aerodrome
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Angoulême–Cognac International Airport, also known as Angoulême–Brie–Champniers Airport, is an airport located 15 kilometres northeast of Angoulême, between Brie and Champniers, all communes of the Charente département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine région of France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brie.
Brie
Village
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Brie is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
Charente
- Type: department of France with 352,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Charente Department”, “département de la Charente”, “Département de la Charente”, and “Department of Charente”
- Neighbors: Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Dordogne, and Vienne
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Charente” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Charente”
- Albanian: “Charente”
- Arabic: “شارنت”
- Arabic: “شرنت”
- Arabic: “شَرَنت”
- Aragonese: “Charanta”
- Armenian: “Շարանտ”
- Arpitan: “Charente”
- Asturian: “Charente”
- Azerbaijani: “Şaranta”
- Basque: “Charente”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Шаранта”
- Belarusian: “Шаранта (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Шаранта”
- Bengali: “চারেন্ট”
- Breton: “Charente”
- Breton: “Charentez”
- Bulgarian: “Шарант”
- Catalan: “Charente”
- Catalan: “Departament de la Xarenta”
- Catalan: “Departament del Charente”
- Catalan: “Xaranta”
- Catalan: “Xarenta”
- Cebuano: “Charente”
- Chechen: “ШагӀанта”
- Chinese: “Charente”
- Chinese: “夏朗德省”
- Chinese: “沙藍特”
- Chuvash: “Шаранта”
- Czech: “Charente”
- Danish: “Charente”
- Dutch: “Charente (departement)”
- Dutch: “Charente”
- Esperanto: “Charente”
- Estonian: “Charente’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Charente”
- French: “Charente”
- French: “département de la Charente”
- French: “Département de la Charente”
- Galician: “Charente”
- Georgian: “შარანტა”
- German: “Charente”
- German: “Département Charente”
- Greek: “Σαράντ”
- Gujarati: “શેરેન્ટે”
- Hakka Chinese: “Charente”
- Hebrew: “שראנט”
- Hindi: “चेरंटी”
- Hungarian: “Charente”
- Indonesian: “Charente”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Charente”
- Irish: “Charente”
- Italian: “Charente”
- Japanese: “シャラント県”
- Kannada: “ಚರೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Шаранта”
- Kongo: “Charente”
- Korean: “샤랑트 (데파르트망)”
- Korean: “샤랑트”
- Korean: “샤랑트주”
- Ladin: “Charente”
- Ladino: “Charente”
- Latin: “Carantonus”
- Latvian: “Šaranta”
- Limburgan: “Charente”
- Lithuanian: “Šaranta”
- Lombard: “Charente”
- Low German: “Charente”
- Luxembourgish: “Charente”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Charente”
- Macedonian: “Шаранта”
- Malagasy: “Charente”
- Malay: “Charente”
- Marathi: “शारांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Charente”
- Northern Frisian: “Charente (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Charente”
- Northern Sami: “Charente”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charente”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charente”
- Norwegian: “Charente”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Charanta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Charanta”
- Ossetian: “Шарантæ”
- Pampanga: “Charente”
- Persian: “شارانت”
- Persian: “شارنت”
- Picard: “Charinte”
- Piemontese: “Charente”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Charente”
- Polish: “Charente”
- Portuguese: “Carântono”
- Portuguese: “Charente”
- Romanian: “Charente”
- Romanian: “departamentul Charente”
- Russian: “Шаранта”
- Scots: “Charente”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Charente”
- Serbian: “Шарант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charente”
- Sinhala: “චරෙන්ටේ”
- Slovak: “Charente”
- Slovenian: “Charente”
- Spanish: “Charenta”
- Spanish: “Charente”
- Swahili: “Charente”
- Swedish: “Charente”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Шаранта”
- Tamil: “சாரெண்டே”
- Telugu: “చారెంట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชาร็องต์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Charente”
- Turkish: “Charente”
- Ukrainian: “Шаранта”
- Urdu: “شارنت”
- Uzbek: “Charente”
- Venetian: “Charente”
- Vietnamese: “Charente”
- Vlaams: “Charente”
- Volapük: “Charente”
- Waray (Philippines): “Charente”
- Welsh: “Charente”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شارنتے”
- Wu Chinese: “夏朗德省”
- Yue Chinese: “沙藍特”
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