Chinon

Chinon is a commune in the department, , France. The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginning in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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  • Town with about 8,140 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (120 feet)
  • Description: French commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
  • Also known as
    “37072”
    “Chinon-sur-Vienne”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Chinon and Town hall of Chinon.
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The is a château located on the…
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Town hall
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Arts center
is an arts center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rivière.
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Village
is a commune in the department in central . is situated 3½ km southeast of Chinon.

Chinon

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Latitude
47.1667° or 47° 10′ 0″ north
Longitude
0.2402° or 0° 14′ 25″ east
Open location code
8FV2568R+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26694878
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6448684
Wiki­data ID
Q194138

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chinon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chinon”
  • Arabic: “شينون”
  • Aragonese: “Chinon”
  • Armenian: “Շինոն”
  • Arpitan: “Chinon”
  • Asturian: “Chinon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şinon”
  • Bambara: “Chinon”
  • Basque: “Chinon”
  • Bavarian: “Chinon”
  • Belarusian: “Шынон”
  • Breton: “Chinon”
  • Cajun French: “Chinon”
  • Catalan: “Chinon”
  • Cebuano: “Chinon”
  • Chechen: “Шинон”
  • Chinese: “希农”
  • Chinese: “希農”
  • Corsican: “Chinon”
  • Croatian: “Chinon”
  • Czech: “Chinon”
  • Danish: “Chinon”
  • Dutch: “Chinon (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Chinon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شينون”
  • Erzya: “Шинон ош”
  • Esperanto: “Chinon”
  • Estonian: “Chinon”
  • Faroese: “Chinon”
  • Finnish: “Chinon”
  • French: “Chinon-sur-Vienne”
  • French: “Chinon”
  • Friulian: “Chinon”
  • Galician: “Chinon”
  • Georgian: “შინონი”
  • German: “Chinon”
  • Greek: “Σινόν”
  • Hebrew: “שינון (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “שינון”
  • Hindi: “शिन्यों”
  • Hungarian: “Chinon”
  • Icelandic: “Chinon”
  • Ido: “Chinon”
  • Indonesian: “Chinon”
  • Interlingua: “Chinon”
  • Interlingue: “Chinon”
  • Irish: “Chinon”
  • Italian: “Chinon”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Chinon”
  • Japanese: “シノン”
  • Japanese: “シノン＝シュル＝ヴィエンヌ”
  • Jèrriais: “Chinon”
  • Kabyle: “Chinon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chinon”
  • Kongo: “Chinon”
  • Korean: “시농”
  • Kurdish: “Chinon”
  • Ladin: “Chinon”
  • Latin: “Chinonium”
  • Latvian: “Chinon”
  • Ligurian: “Chinon”
  • Limburgan: “Chinon”
  • Lithuanian: “Chinon”
  • Low German: “Chinon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chinon”
  • Macedonian: “Шинон”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Chinon”
  • Malagasy: “Chinon”
  • Malay: “Chinon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chinon”
  • Minangkabau: “Chinon”
  • Neapolitan: “Chinon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chinon”
  • Norwegian: “Chinon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chinon”
  • Papiamento: “Chinon”
  • Persian: “شینون”
  • Picard: “Chinon”
  • Piemontese: “Chinon”
  • Polish: “Chinon”
  • Portuguese: “Chinon”
  • Prussian: “Chinon”
  • Romagnol: “Chinon”
  • Romanian: “Chinon”
  • Romansh: “Chinon”
  • Russian: “Шинон”
  • Sardinian: “Chinon”
  • Scots: “Chinon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chinon”
  • Serbian: “Chinon”
  • Serbian: “Šinon”
  • Serbian: “Шинон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chinon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šinon”
  • Sicilian: “Chinon”
  • Slovak: “Chinon”
  • Slovenian: “Chinon”
  • Spanish: “Chinon”
  • Swahili: “Chinon”
  • Swedish: “Chinon”
  • Swiss German: “Chinon”
  • Tajik: “Шинун”
  • Tatar: “Шинон”
  • Turkish: “Chinon”
  • Ukrainian: “Шинон”
  • Ukrainian: “Шінон”
  • Urdu: “شینوں”
  • Uzbek: “Chinon”
  • Venetian: “Chinon”
  • Vietnamese: “Chinon”
  • Vlaams: “Chinon”
  • Volapük: “Chinon”
  • Walloon: “Chinon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chinon”
  • Welsh: “Chinon”
  • Wolof: “Chinon”
  • Wu Chinese: “希农”
  • Zulu: “Chinon”

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