Charente
Charente is a department in western France, north half of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is named after the Charente River, the most important river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.
Photo: Jack ma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Notable Places in the Area
Angoulême – Brie – Champniers Airport
Aerodrome
Angoulême – Cognac International Airport, also known as Angoulême – Brie – Champniers Airport… Photo: Jack ma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Charente
- Type: Department of France
- Description: French department
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
- Neighbors: Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Dordogne and Vienne
Latitude 45.706° or 45° 42' 21.5" north | Longitude 0.1816° or 0° 10' 53.8" east |
Population 364,000 | Elevation 102 metres (335 feet) |
GeoNames ID 3026646 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Charente
- Albanian: Charente
- Arabic: Charente
- Arabic: شارنت
- Aragonese: Charanta
- Armenian: Շարանտ
- Arpitan: Charente
- Asturian: Charente
- Azerbaijani: Şaranta (departament)
- Azerbaijani: Şaranta
- Basque: Charente
- Belarusian: Шаранта (дэпартамент)
- Belarusian: Шаранта
- Belarusian: дэпартамент Шаранта
- Bengali: চারেন্ট
- Breton: Charente
- Breton: Charentez
- Bulgarian: Шарант
- Catalan: Charente
- Cebuano: Charente
- Chechen: Шаранта
- Chinese: Charente
- Chinese: 夏朗德省
- Chinese: 沙藍特
- Chuvash: Шаранта
- Czech: Charente
- Danish: Charente
- Dutch: Charente (departement)
- Dutch: Charente
- English: Departement de la Charente
- English: Département de la Charente
- Esperanto: Charente
- Estonian: Charente'i departemang
- Finnish: Charente
- French: 16
- 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
- Hausa: Charente
- Hebrew: שראנט
- Hindi: चेरंटी
- Hungarian: Charente
- Indonesian: Charente
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Departimento Charente
- Italian: Charente
- Japanese: シャラント県
- Kannada: ಚರೆನ್
- Kazakh: Шаранта
- Kongo: Charente
- Korean: 샤랑트주
- Ladino: Charente
- Latin: Carantonus
- Latvian: Šaranta
- Limburgan: Charente
- Lithuanian: Šaranta
- Lombard: Charente
- Low German: Charente
- Luxembourgish: Departement Charente
- Macedonian: Шаранта
- Malagasy: Charente
- Malay: Charente
- Marathi: शारांत
- Min Nan Chinese: Charente
- Northern Sami: Charente
- Norwegian: Charente
- Norwegian Bokmål: Charente
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Charente
- Occitan (post 1500): Charanta
- Pampanga: Charente
- Persian: شارانت
- Persian: شارنت
- Piemontese: Charente
- Piemontese: Dipartiment ëd la Charente
- Polish: Charente
- Portuguese: Carântono
- Portuguese: Charente
- Romanian: 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
- Turkish: Charente
- Ukrainian: Шаранта
- Urdu: شارنت
- 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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