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Gironde

Gironde is a department of the region of southwest France. It is known for its excellent wines and rich heritage. Gironde is well known for the Côte d'Argent beach which is Europe's longest, attracting many surfers to Lacanau each year.
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is a city in the Gironde region of southwest France, standing on the River Garonne. It's the country's fifth largest city, with a population of 259,809 in 2020, and another million living in its associated towns.

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is a beach resort near in the region of Southwestern . It has a fine beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for invalids suffering from pulmonary complaints.

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is a small wine town located 35 km northeast of , between Libourne and Castillon-la-Bataille in the region of Southwestern France.

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is a small town and beach resort in , . In July and August it is crowded with ten of thousands of tourists, mainly French, some Dutch, some German and some from the UK.

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is at Montalivet Beach in the region of . It is one of the most popular naturist camps on the Atlantic coast, and covers about one and a half square miles at the endless sandy beach of the Côte d'Argent.

Gironde

Latitude of center
44.6931° or 44° 41′ 35″ north
Longitude of center
-0.414° or 0° 24′ 50″ west
Population
1,670,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3015948
Wiki­data ID
Q12526
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gironde” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gironde”
  • Albanian: “Gironda”
  • Albanian: “Gironde”
  • Arabic: “إقليم جرندة”
  • Arabic: “جرندة”
  • Aragonese: “Gironda”
  • Armenian: “Ժիրոնդ”
  • Arpitan: “G·ironde”
  • Asturian: “Gironda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jirond”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jironda”
  • Balinese: “Gironde”
  • Basque: “Gironda”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Жыронда”
  • Belarusian: “Жыронда (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Жыронда”
  • Bengali: “গিরন্ড”
  • Breton: “Gironda”
  • Breton: “Gironde”
  • Bulgarian: “Жиронд”
  • Catalan: “Gironda”
  • Cebuano: “Gironde”
  • Central Kurdish: “ژیرۆند”
  • Chechen: “ЖигӀонда”
  • Chinese: “Gironde”
  • Chinese: “吉伦特省”
  • Chinese: “吉倫特”
  • Chinese: “吉倫特省”
  • Chuvash: “Жиронда”
  • Corsican: “Ghjironda”
  • Corsican: “Gironda”
  • Czech: “Gironde”
  • Danish: “Gironde”
  • Dutch: “Gironde (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Gironde”
  • Esperanto: “Gironde”
  • Estonian: “Gironde’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Gironde”
  • French: “Département de la Gironde”
  • French: “FR-33”
  • French: “Gironde”
  • Galician: “Xironda, Francia”
  • Galician: “Xironda”
  • Georgian: “ჟირონდა”
  • German: “Departement Gironde”
  • German: “Département Gironde”
  • German: “Gironde”
  • Greek: “Ζιρόντ”
  • Gujarati: “ગિરોન્દ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gironde-sén”
  • Hebrew: “ז’ירונד”
  • Hindi: “गिरोंदे”
  • Hungarian: “Gironde”
  • Indonesian: “Gironde”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Gironde”
  • Irish: “Gironde”
  • Italian: “Gironda”
  • Japanese: “ジロンド県”
  • Javanese: “Dhépartemèn Gironde”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿರೊಂಡೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿರಾಂಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Жиронда”
  • Kongo: “Gironde”
  • Korean: “지롱드”
  • Korean: “지롱드주”
  • Kurdish: “Gironda”
  • Kurdish: “Gironde”
  • Ladin: “Gironde”
  • Ladino: “Gironde”
  • Latin: “Girumna”
  • Latin: “Girundia”
  • Latvian: “Žironda”
  • Limburgan: “Gironde”
  • Lithuanian: “Žironda”
  • Lombard: “Gironde”
  • Low German: “Gironde”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Gironde”
  • Macedonian: “Жиронда”
  • Malagasy: “Gironde”
  • Malay: “Gironde”
  • Maltese: “Gironde”
  • Maori: “Gironde”
  • Marathi: “जिरोंद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gironde”
  • Narom: “Girounde”
  • Northern Frisian: “Département Gironde”
  • Northern Sami: “Gironde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gironde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gironde”
  • Norwegian: “Gironde”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bec d’Ambés”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “departament de Gironda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Gironda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gironda”
  • Ossetian: “Жирондæ”
  • Pampanga: “Gironde”
  • Persian: “ژیروند”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Gironda”
  • Polish: “Żyronda”
  • Portuguese: “Gironda”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Gironde”
  • Romanian: “Gironde”
  • Russian: “Жиронда”
  • Scots: “Gironde”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gironde”
  • Serbian: “Жиронда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gironde”
  • Sinhala: “ගිරෝන්ඩේ”
  • Slovak: “Gironde”
  • Slovenian: “Gironde”
  • Spanish: “Gironda”
  • Spanish: “Gironde”
  • Swahili: “Gironde”
  • Swedish: “Gironde”
  • Tagalog: “Gironda”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Жиронда”
  • Tamil: “கிராண்டே”
  • Telugu: “గిరోండె”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฌีรงด์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Gironde”
  • Turkish: “Gironde”
  • Ukrainian: “Жиронда”
  • Urdu: “جیروند”
  • Venetian: “Xironda”
  • Vietnamese: “Gironde”
  • Vlaams: “Gironde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gironde”
  • Welsh: “Gironde”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع یروند”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉伦特省”
  • Yue Chinese: “吉倫特”

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