Chartres

Chartres is a small city in the region of , approximately an hour south-west of by train. Population is 39,000 although that rises to 100,000 when the surrounding towns are taken into consideration.
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  • Type: Town with 38,400 residents
  • Description: commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
  • Postal code: 28000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chartres Cathedral and Chartres station.

Church
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is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 km southwest of , and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary, it was mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town of Chartres in the department and region of . It is situated on the Paris–Brest railway.

Museum
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The is an example of naïve architecture made up of earthenware and glass mosaics cast in cement. It is located in Chartres, France and depends on the Museum of Fine Arts of the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lucé.

Town
Photo: Le Passant, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in northern .

Chartres

Latitude
48.4439° or 48° 26′ 38″ north
Longitude
1.4881° or 1° 29′ 17″ east
Population
38,400
Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)
IATA airport code
QTJ
United Nations Location Code
FR CHA
Open location code
8FW3CFVQ+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1768128336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3026467
Wiki­data ID
Q130272
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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”
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  • 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”
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  • Friulian: “Chartres”
  • Galician: “Chartres”
  • Georgian: “შარტრი”
  • German: “Autricum”
  • German: “Carnotum”
  • German: “Chartres”
  • Greek: “Σαρτρ”
  • Gujarati: “ચાર્ટ્રેસ”
  • Hebrew: “שארטר”
  • Hindi: “शारतरे”
  • Hindi: “शार्त्र”
  • Hungarian: “Carnotum”
  • Hungarian: “Chartres”
  • Icelandic: “Chartres”
  • Ido: “Chartres”
  • Indonesian: “Chartres”
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  • 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”
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  • Narom: “Chartres”
  • Neapolitan: “Chartres”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chartres”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chartres”
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  • 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”
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  • 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”
  • Tumbuka: “Chartres”
  • 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”
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