Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime is a department in the region of southwestern . Mild climatic conditions, preserved architectural and environmental heritage, a lively and diverse cultural life, and the attractiveness of the coastline and its islands make Charente-Maritime the leading tourist department on the French Atlantic coast.
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is a city in Charente-Maritime on the Atlantic coast of France. It has a charming old town and harbour, and is often called "la ville blanche" for its limestone buildings: they're handsome in any weather, but brilliant when the sun shines down from a big blue Atlantic sky.

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is a port city and seaside resort in Charente-Maritime, southwestern . It's along with , and one of the most famous resorts on the French Atlantic coast.

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is a city on the Charente river in Charente-Maritime, in southwestern France. It was the capital of the historical Saintogne County, many landmarks from its glorious past have been preserved, and as such it has been classified as a Ville d'art et d'histoire.

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is a port town and seaside resort on the Arvert peninsula in Charente-Maritime, southwestern France. This small town with about 4,500 inhabitants, and famous for its flat oysters just like the surrounding Marennes-Oléron region.

Charente-Maritime

Latitude of center
45.7556° or 45° 45′ 20″ north
Longitude of center
-0.7131° or 0° 42′ 47″ west
Population
668,000
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3026644
Wiki­data ID
Q3278
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Charente-Maritime” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Albanian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Arabic: “شارنت البحرية”
  • Arabic: “شارنت ماريتيم”
  • Arabic: “شرنت البحرية”
  • Arabic: “شَرَنت مرتم”
  • Arabic: “شرنت مريتيم”
  • Arabic: “شَرَنت مريتيم”
  • Aragonese: “Charente Maritimo”
  • Armenian: “Ծովափնյա Շարանտ”
  • Arpitan: “Charente-Maritima”
  • Asturian: “Charente Marítimu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dənizkənarı Şaranta”
  • Basque: “Itsas Charente”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Прыморская Шаранта”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Шаранта Прыморская”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Шаранта Прыморская”
  • Belarusian: “Прыморская Шаранта”
  • Belarusian: “Шаранта Прыморская”
  • Bengali: “শারঁত-মারিতিম”
  • Breton: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Breton: “Charentez-an-Arvor”
  • Bulgarian: “Шарант Маритим”
  • Catalan: “Charanta Marítima”
  • Catalan: “Charente Marítim”
  • Catalan: “Xaranta Marítima”
  • Cebuano: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Chechen: “ХӀордан йистера ШагӀанта”
  • Chinese: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Chinese: “滨海夏朗德省”
  • Chinese: “濱海夏朗德省”
  • Chinese: “濱海沙藍特”
  • Chuvash: “Тинĕс енчи Шаранта”
  • Corsican: “Charente Marittima”
  • Czech: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Danish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Dutch: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Esperanto: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Estonian: “Charente-Maritime’i departemang”
  • Estonian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Finnish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • French: “Charente-Inférieure”
  • French: “Charente-Maritime”
  • French: “département de la Charente-Inférieure”
  • French: “département de la Charente-Maritime”
  • French: “Département de la Charente-Maritime”
  • French: “FR-17”
  • Galician: “Charente Marítimo”
  • Georgian: “ზღვისპირა შარანტა”
  • German: “Charente-Maritime”
  • German: “Département Charente-Maritime”
  • Greek: “Σαράντ-Ανφεριέρ”
  • Greek: “Σαράντ-Μαριτίμ”
  • Gujarati: “બામાકો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Hebrew: “השראנט הימי”
  • Hebrew: “שראנט מריטים”
  • Hebrew: “שראנט-מריטים”
  • Hindi: “शाराँत-मारितिम”
  • Hungarian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Indonesian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Charente-Maritime”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Charente-Maritime”
  • Irish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Italian: “Charente Marittima”
  • Japanese: “シャラント＝マリティーム県”
  • Kannada: “ಚರೆನ್ಟೆ-ಮಾರಿಟೈಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Шаранта-Маритим”
  • Kongo: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Korean: “샤랑트마리팀주”
  • Ladin: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Ladino: “Charente Maritime”
  • Latin: “Carantonus maritimus”
  • Latin: “Carantonus Maritimus”
  • Latvian: “Piejūras Šaranta”
  • Limburgan: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Lithuanian: “Pajūrio Šaranta”
  • Lombard: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Low German: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Charente-Maritime”
  • Macedonian: “Приморска Шаранта”
  • Malagasy: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Malay: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Marathi: “शारांत-मरितीम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Narom: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Northern Frisian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Northern Sami: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Norwegian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Charanta Maritima”
  • Ossetian: “Денджызгæрон Шарантæ”
  • Pampanga: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Persian: “شارانت-ماریتیم”
  • Persian: “شرانت-ماریتیم”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Charente marìtima”
  • Polish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Portuguese: “Carântono Marítimo”
  • Portuguese: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Romanian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Charente-Maritime”
  • Russian: “Приморская Шаранта”
  • Scots: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Serbian: “Приморски Шарант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Sinhala: “චරෙන්ටේ-මරිටයිම්”
  • Slovak: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Slovenian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Spanish: “Charenta Marítima”
  • Spanish: “Charente Maritimo”
  • Spanish: “Charente Marítimo”
  • Swahili: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Swedish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Шаранта Приморская”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Шарантаи Наздибаҳрӣ”
  • Tamil: “சாரெண்டே -மாரிடைம்”
  • Telugu: “చారెంట్-మారిటైమ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชาร็องต์-มารีตีม”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Charente-Maritime”
  • Turkish: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Ukrainian: “Приморська Шаранта”
  • Urdu: “شارنت-ماریتیم”
  • Venetian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Vietnamese: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Vlaams: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Volapük: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Charente-Maritime”
  • Welsh: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Western Frisian: “Charente-Maritime”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع شارنتے-میریٹائیم”
  • Wu Chinese: “滨海夏朗德省”
  • Yue Chinese: “濱海沙藍特”

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