Chartres
Chartres is a small city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France, approximately an hour south-west of Paris by train. Population is 39,000 although that rises to 100,000 when the surrounding towns are taken into consideration.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 38,400 residents
- Description: commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
- Postal codes: 28000 and 28000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chartres Cathedral and Chartres station.
Chartres Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Chartres Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 km southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary, it was mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220.
Chartres station
Railway station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chartres station is a railway station serving the town of Chartres in the Eure-et-Loir department and Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is situated on the Paris–Brest railway.
Porte Guillaume
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Porte Guillaume is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lucé.
Lucé
Town
Photo: Le Passant, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lucé is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Chartres
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.4439° or 48° 26′ 38″ northLongitude
1.4881° or 1° 29′ 17″ eastPopulation
38,400Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)IATA airport code
QTJUnited Nations Location Code
FR CHAOpen location code
8FW3CFVQ+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1768128336OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3026467Wikidata ID
Q130272
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chartres” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chartres”
- Amharic: “ሻርትረ”
- Arabic: “شارتر”
- Aragonese: “Chartres”
- Armenian: “Շարտր”
- Arpitan: “Chartres”
- Asturian: “Chartres”
- Azerbaijani: “Şartr”
- Bambara: “Chartres”
- Basque: “Chartres”
- Bavarian: “Chartres”
- Belarusian: “Шартр”
- Bengali: “চার্টেস”
- Breton: “Chartres”
- Breton: “Chartrez”
- Buginese: “Chartres”
- Bulgarian: “Шартр”
- Bulgarian: “Шартър”
- Cajun French: “Chartres”
- Catalan: “Chartres”
- Cebuano: “Chartres”
- Chechen: “ШагӀтгӀ”
- Chinese: “Chartres”
- Chinese: “沙特尔”
- Chinese: “沙特爾”
- Chuvash: “Шартр”
- Corsican: “Chartres”
- Croatian: “Chartres”
- Czech: “Chartres”
- Dagbani: “Chartres”
- Danish: “Chartres”
- Dutch: “Autricum”
- Dutch: “Chartres”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شارتر”
- Esperanto: “Chartres”
- Estonian: “Chartres”
- Faroese: “Chartres”
- Finnish: “Chartres”
- French: “Chartres”
- Friulian: “Chartres”
- Galician: “Chartres”
- Georgian: “შარტრი”
- German: “Autricum”
- German: “Carnotum”
- German: “Chartres”
- Greek: “Σαρτρ”
- Gujarati: “ચાર્ટ્રેસ”
- Hebrew: “שארטר”
- Hindi: “शारतरे”
- Hungarian: “Carnotum”
- Hungarian: “Chartres”
- Icelandic: “Chartres”
- Ido: “Chartres”
- Indonesian: “Chartres”
- Interlingua: “Chartres”
- Interlingue: “Chartres”
- Irish: “Chartres”
- Italian: “Chartres”
- Italian: “Ciartre”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Chartres”
- Japanese: “シャルトル”
- Kabyle: “Chartres”
- Kalaallisut: “Chartres”
- Kannada: “ಚಾರ್ಟ್ರೆಸ್”
- Kongo: “Chartres”
- Korean: “샤르트르”
- Kurdish: “Chartres”
- Ladin: “Chartres”
- Latin: “Autricum Carnutum”
- Latin: “Autricum”
- Latin: “Carnotes”
- Latin: “Carnotum”
- Latin: “Chartres”
- Latvian: “Šartra”
- Ligurian: “Chartres”
- Limburgan: “Chartres”
- Lithuanian: “Chartres”
- Lithuanian: “Šartras”
- Low German: “Chartres”
- Luxembourgish: “Chartres”
- Macedonian: “Шартр”
- Mainfränkisch: “Chartres”
- Malagasy: “Chartres”
- Malay: “Chartres”
- Maltese: “Chartres”
- Marathi: “चार्टर्स”
- Mazanderani: “شارتر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chartres”
- Minangkabau: “Chartres”
- Narom: “Chartres”
- Neapolitan: “Chartres”
- Northern Frisian: “Chartres”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chartres”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chartres”
- Norwegian: “Chartres”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chartras”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chartres”
- Ossetian: “Шартр”
- Papiamento: “Chartres”
- Persian: “شارتر”
- Picard: “Chartres”
- Piemontese: “Chartres”
- Polish: “Chartres”
- Portuguese: “Chartres”
- Prussian: “Chartres”
- Romagnol: “Chartres”
- Romanian: “Chartres”
- Romansh: “Chartres”
- Russian: “Шартр”
- Sardinian: “Chartres”
- Scots: “Chartres”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chartres”
- Serbian: “Chartres”
- Serbian: “Šartr”
- Serbian: “Шартр”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chartres”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šartr”
- Sicilian: “Chartres”
- Sinhala: “චට්රෙස්”
- Slovak: “Chartres”
- Slovenian: “Chartres”
- South Azerbaijani: “شارتر”
- Spanish: “Chartres”
- Swahili: “Chartres”
- Swedish: “Chartres”
- Swiss German: “Chartres”
- Tamil: “சார்ட்ரேஸ்”
- Tatar: “Шартр”
- Telugu: “చార్ట్రెస్”
- Thai: “ชาทร์”
- Turkish: “Chartres”
- Ukrainian: “Шартр”
- Urdu: “شاغتغ”
- Uzbek: “Chartres”
- Venetian: “Chartres”
- Vietnamese: “Chartres”
- Vlaams: “Chartres”
- Volapük: “Chartres”
- Walloon: “Chartres”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chartres”
- Welsh: “Chartres”
- Western Armenian: “Չարթըր”
- Western Frisian: “Chartres”
- Wolof: “Chartres”
- Wu Chinese: “沙特尔”
- Yue Chinese: “沙特爾”
- Zulu: “Chartres”
- “Chartres”
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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 “Chartres”. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0.