Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement of La Rochelle

La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in on the Atlantic coast of France. It has a charming old town and harbour, and is often called "la ville blanche" for its limestone buildings: they're handsome in any weather, but brilliant when the sun shines down from a big blue Atlantic sky.
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  • Type: Town with 78,500 residents
  • Description: French commune and prefecture of Charente-Maritime, New Aquitaine
  • Also known as: “Rochelle”
  • Postal codes: 17000 and 17000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Excelia Group and La Rochelle station.

College
Excelia is a French Grande école, a specialized top-level institution of higher education. Created in 1988 as Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, it is a private non-profit organisation linked to the La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.

Railway station
Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gare de La Rochelle is the main railway station serving La Rochelle. The station building, which includes a 45-metre-tall clock tower, was built in 1922 by Pierre Esquié for the CF de l'Etat replacing the older building.

Museum
Photo: Tux-Man, Public domain.
is a museum.

La Rochelle

Latitude
46.1597° or 46° 9′ 35″ north
Longitude
-1.1516° or 1° 9′ 6″ west
Population
78,500
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“La Côte”
Name during the French Revolution
“Proclamation”
IATA airport code
LRH
United Nations Location Code
FR LRH
Open location code
8CRW5R5X+V9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691694
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3006787
Wiki­data ID
Q82185
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Rochelle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Rochelle”
  • Arabic: “لا روشيل هي”
  • Arabic: “لا روشيل”
  • Aragonese: “La Rochelle”
  • Armenian: “Լա Ռոշել”
  • Arpitan: “La Rochelle”
  • Asturian: “La Rochelle”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Roşel”
  • Bambara: “La Rochelle”
  • Basque: “Arroxela”
  • Basque: “La Rochelle”
  • Bavarian: “La Rochelle”
  • Belarusian: “Ла Рашэль”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Рашэль”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Рашэль”
  • Bengali: “লা রোচ্যাল”
  • Bengali: “লা রোশেল”
  • Breton: “Ar Roc’hell”
  • Breton: “Ar Rochell”
  • Breton: “La Rochelle”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Рошел”
  • Cajun French: “La Rochelle”
  • Catalan: “La Rochelle”
  • Catalan: “La Roquel·la”
  • Cebuano: “La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime”
  • Cebuano: “La Rochelle”
  • Chechen: “Ла-ГӀошель”
  • Chinese: “La Rochelle”
  • Chinese: “拉罗歇尔”
  • Chinese: “拉罗谢勒”
  • Chinese: “拉罗谢尔”
  • Chinese: “拉羅歇爾”
  • Chinese: “拉羅舍爾”
  • Chinese: “拉羅謝爾”
  • Chuvash: “Ла-Рошель”
  • Corsican: “La Rochelle”
  • Croatian: “La Rochelle”
  • Czech: “La Rochelle”
  • Dagbani: “La Rochelle”
  • Danish: “La Rochelle”
  • Dutch: “La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime)”
  • Dutch: “La Rochelle”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا روشيل”
  • Esperanto: “La Rochelle”
  • Estonian: “La Rochelle”
  • Faroese: “La Rochelle”
  • Finnish: “La Rochelle”
  • French: “La Rochelle”
  • French: “Rochelle”
  • Friulian: “La Rochelle”
  • Galician: “La Rochelle”
  • Georgian: “ლა-როშელი”
  • German: “La Rochelle”
  • Greek: “Λα Ροσέλ”
  • Haitian: “Ròchèl”
  • Hebrew: “לה רושל”
  • Hungarian: “La Rochelle”
  • Icelandic: “La Rochelle”
  • Ido: “La Rochelle”
  • Indonesian: “La Rochelle”
  • Interlingua: “La Rochelle”
  • Interlingue: “La Rochelle”
  • Irish: “La Rochelle”
  • Italian: “La Rochelle”
  • Italian: “Rochelle”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “La Rochelle”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ロシェル”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ロッシェル”
  • Kabyle: “La Rochelle”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Rochelle”
  • Kongo: “La Rochelle”
  • Korean: “라 로셸”
  • Korean: “라로셸”
  • Kotava: “La Rochelle”
  • Kurdish: “La Rochelle”
  • Ladin: “La Rochelle”
  • Latin: “La Rochelle”
  • Latin: “Rupella”
  • Latvian: “La Rochelle”
  • Latvian: “La Rošela”
  • Latvian: “Larošela”
  • Ligurian: “La Rochelle”
  • Limburgan: “La Rochelle”
  • Lithuanian: “La Rochelle”
  • Lithuanian: “La Rošelė”
  • Lithuanian: “La Rošelis”
  • Low German: “La Rochelle”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Rochelle”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Рошел”
  • Mainfränkisch: “La Rochelle”
  • Malagasy: “La Rochelle”
  • Malay: “La Rochelle”
  • Maltese: “La Rochelle”
  • Mazanderani: “لروشل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Rochelle”
  • Minangkabau: “La Rochelle”
  • Moksha: “Ла-Рошэль”
  • Narom: “La Rochelle”
  • Neapolitan: “La Rochelle”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Rochelle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Rochelle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Rochelle”
  • Norwegian: “La Rochelle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Rochela”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Rochèla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Rochelle”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Рошель”
  • Papiamento: “La Rochelle”
  • Persian: “لا روشل”
  • Persian: “لروشل”
  • Picard: “La Rochelle”
  • Piemontese: “La Rochelle”
  • Polish: “La Pallice”
  • Polish: “La Rochelle”
  • Pontic: “Λα Ροσέλ”
  • Portuguese: “Arrochela”
  • Portuguese: “La Rochelle”
  • Portuguese: “Rochela”
  • Prussian: “La Rochelle”
  • Romagnol: “La Rochelle”
  • Romanian: “La Rochelle”
  • Romansh: “La Rochelle”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ла-Рошель”
  • Russian: “Ла Рошель”
  • Russian: “Ла-Рошель”
  • Russian: “Ларошель”
  • Russian: “Ля Рошель”
  • Sardinian: “La Rochelle”
  • Scots: “La Rochelle”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Rochelle”
  • Serbian: “La Rochelle”
  • Serbian: “Ла Рошел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Rochelle”
  • Sicilian: “La Rochelle”
  • Silesian: “La Rochelle”
  • Slovak: “La Rochelle”
  • Slovenian: “La Rochelle”
  • Slovenian: “Rochelle”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لا روشل”
  • Spanish: “La Rochela”
  • Spanish: “La Rochelle”
  • Swahili: “La Rochelle”
  • Swedish: “La Rochelle”
  • Swiss German: “La Rochelle”
  • Tagalog: “La Rochelle”
  • Tatar: “Ля-Рошель”
  • Thai: “ลารอแชล”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་རོ་ཅེ་ལེ།”
  • Tumbuka: “La Rochelle”
  • Turkish: “La Rochelle”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла Рошель”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Рошель”
  • Urdu: “لا روشیل”
  • Venetian: “La Rochelle”
  • Veps: “La-Rošel‘”
  • Veps: “La-Rošel’”
  • Veps: “La-Rošel”
  • Vietnamese: “La Rochelle”
  • Vlaams: “La Rochelle”
  • Volapük: “La Rochelle”
  • Walloon: “La Rochelle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Rochelle”
  • Welsh: “La Rochelle”
  • Wolof: “La Rochelle”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉罗谢尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉羅謝爾”
  • Zulu: “La Rochelle”
  • “La Rochelle”

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