Gard

Gard is a department in Southern France, located in the region of . It had a population of 770,940 as of 2023; its prefecture is . The department is named after the river .
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is a city with a population of around 137,000 in the département of Gard in the south of . It has a stunning Roman temple whose pristine condition is unmatched by any extant ones in . There are a few other fine Roman relics and Diana's Palace.

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is a small town in , . Although known as the capital of the Cevennes, you may have a hard time getting to , partly because it's off the well-trod tourist track, and partly because everyone will assume you want to go to nearby, and bigger, .

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is a town in the region in southwest , with well-preserved medieval city walls surrounding a historical centre.

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is a town in in , best known for Roman aqueduct the Pont du Gard.

Gard

Latitude of center
44.0179° or 44° 1′ 4″ north
Longitude of center
4.2875° or 4° 17′ 15″ east
Population
764,000
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3016670
Wiki­data ID
Q12515
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gard” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gard”
  • Albanian: “Gard”
  • Arabic: “غارد”
  • Aragonese: “Gardon”
  • Armenian: “Գար”
  • Arpitan: “Gard”
  • Asturian: “Gard”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qar”
  • Basque: “Gard”
  • Belarusian: “Гар (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Гар”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Гар”
  • Bengali: “গার্ড”
  • Breton: “Gard”
  • Bulgarian: “Гар”
  • Catalan: “Gard”
  • Cebuano: “Gard”
  • Central Kurdish: “گار”
  • Chechen: “ГагӀ (департамент)”
  • Chechen: “ГагӀ”
  • Chinese: “Gard”
  • Chinese: “加尔省”
  • Chinese: “加爾”
  • Chinese: “加爾省”
  • Chuvash: “Гар”
  • Czech: “Gard”
  • Danish: “Gard”
  • Dutch: “Gard (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Gard”
  • Esperanto: “Gard”
  • Estonian: “Gard’i departemang”
  • Estonian: “Gardi departemang”
  • Finnish: “Gard”
  • French: “Département du Gard”
  • French: “FR-30”
  • French: “Gard”
  • Galician: “Gard”
  • Georgian: “გარი”
  • Georgian: “გარის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Département du Gard”
  • German: “Département Gard”
  • German: “Gard”
  • Greek: “Γκαρ”
  • Gujarati: “ગાર્ડ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gard-sén”
  • Hausa: “Gard”
  • Hebrew: “גאר (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “גאר”
  • Hindi: “गार”
  • Hungarian: “Gard”
  • Indonesian: “Gard”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Gard”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Gard”
  • Irish: “Gard”
  • Italian: “Gard”
  • Japanese: “ガール県”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾರ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Гар”
  • Kongo: “Gard”
  • Korean: “가르주”
  • Ladin: “Gard”
  • Ladino: “Gard”
  • Latin: “Gardus”
  • Latin: “Vardo”
  • Latvian: “Gāra”
  • Limburgan: “Gard”
  • Lithuanian: “Garas”
  • Lombard: “Gard”
  • Low German: “Gard”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Gard”
  • Macedonian: “Гар”
  • Malagasy: “Gard”
  • Malay: “Gard”
  • Marathi: “गार्द”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gard”
  • Mongolian: “Гар аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Гар”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gard (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gard”
  • Northern Sami: “Gard”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gard”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Gard”
  • Norwegian: “Gard”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gard”
  • Ossetian: “Гар (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Гар”
  • Pampanga: “Gard”
  • Persian: “گار”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Gard”
  • Polish: “Gard”
  • Portuguese: “Gard”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Gard”
  • Romanian: “Gard”
  • Russian: “Гар”
  • Scots: “Gard”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gard”
  • Serbian: “Гар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gard”
  • Sicilian: “Gard”
  • Sinhala: “ගාර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Gard”
  • Slovenian: “Gard”
  • Spanish: “Gard”
  • Spanish: “Gardon”
  • Swahili: “Gard”
  • Swedish: “Gard”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Гар”
  • Tamil: “கார்ட்”
  • Telugu: “గార్డ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดการ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Gard”
  • Turkish: “Gard”
  • Ukrainian: “Гар”
  • Urdu: “گار”
  • Uzbek: “Gard”
  • Venetian: “Gard”
  • Vietnamese: “Gard”
  • Vlaams: “Gard”
  • Volapük: “Gard”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gard”
  • Welsh: “Gard”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع گارد”
  • Wu Chinese: “加尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “加爾”

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