Gers
The department of Gers is in the Occitanie region of south-west France. It is a stunning area flanked on one side by the imposing Pyrenees, whose snow-capped peaks can often be seen, nestled within beautifully peaceful rolling countryside…
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Gers
- Type: department of France with 193,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Aegirtius”, “departamentul Gers”, “département du Gers”, “Département du Gers”, “FR-32”, “Gers (departement)”, and “Жэр (дэпартамент)”
- Neighbors: Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and Tarn-et-Garonne
- Location: Occitanie, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
43.7173° or 43° 43′ 2″ north
Longitude of center
0.4542° or 0° 27′ 15″ east
Population
193,000
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gers” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gers”
- Albanian: “Gers”
- Amharic: “ዠርስ”
- Arabic: “جارس”
- Aragonese: “Gers”
- Armenian: “Ժեր”
- Arpitan: “G·èrs”
- Azerbaijani: “Jer (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “Jer”
- Basque: “Gers”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Жэр”
- Belarusian: “Жэр”
- Bengali: “গেরস”
- Breton: “Gers”
- Bulgarian: “Жерс”
- Catalan: “Gers”
- Cebuano: “Gers”
- Chechen: “ЖегӀ (департамент)”
- Chechen: “ЖегӀ”
- Chinese: “热尔省”
- Chinese: “熱爾省”
- Chuvash: “Жер”
- Chuvash: “Жерс”
- Czech: “Gers”
- Danish: “Gers”
- Dutch: “Gers”
- Esperanto: “Gers”
- Estonian: “Gers’i departemang”
- Estonian: “Gersi departemang”
- Finnish: “Gers”
- French: “Gers”
- Galician: “Gers”
- Georgian: “ჟერი”
- Georgian: “ჟერის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Département Gers”
- German: “Gers”
- Greek: “Ζερς”
- Gujarati: “ગેર્સ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gers-sén”
- Hebrew: “ז’ר”
- Hindi: “जेर”
- Hindi: “जेर्स”
- Hungarian: “Gers”
- Indonesian: “Gers”
- Interlingua: “Departimento de Gers”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Gers”
- Irish: “Gers”
- Italian: “Gers”
- Japanese: “ジェール県”
- Kannada: “ಗರ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Жер”
- Kongo: “Gers”
- Korean: “제르주”
- Ladin: “Gers”
- Ladino: “Gers”
- Latin: “Aegircius”
- Latvian: “Žēra”
- Limburgan: “Gers”
- Lithuanian: “Žeras”
- Lombard: “Gers”
- Low German: “Gers”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Gers”
- Macedonian: “Жер”
- Malagasy: “Gers”
- Malay: “Gers”
- Marathi: “जेर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gers”
- Northern Frisian: “Gers (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gers”
- Northern Sami: “Gers”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gers”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gers”
- Norwegian: “Gers”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Gers”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gers”
- Ossetian: “Жер (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Жер”
- Pampanga: “Gers”
- Persian: “ژر”
- Persian: “ژرس”
- Picard: “Gers”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Gers”
- Piemontese: “Gers”
- Polish: “Gers”
- Portuguese: “Gers”
- Romanian: “Gers”
- Russian: “Жер”
- Scots: “Gers”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gers”
- Serbian: “Жерс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gers”
- Sinhala: “ජෙර්ස්”
- Slovak: “Gers”
- Slovenian: “Gers”
- Spanish: “Gers”
- Swahili: “Gers”
- Swedish: “Gers”
- Swiss German: “Département Gers”
- Tagalog: “Gers”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Жер”
- Tamil: “ஜெர்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “జెర్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแฌร์”
- Turkish: “Gers”
- Ukrainian: “Жер”
- Urdu: “جرس”
- Venetian: “Gers”
- Vietnamese: “Gers”
- Volapük: “Gers”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gers”
- Welsh: “Gers”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع یرس”
- Wu Chinese: “热尔省”
- Yue Chinese: “熱爾”
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