Lot

Lot is in the region of France. There are many caves and chasms, often containing cave art. 85 underground diving sites are listed there, which in this area makes it the second place in the world after the Yucatan.
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is a commune in the western part of Southern France. It is the smallest prefecture among the 13 departments that constitute the .

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Puy L'Eveque is a small town in , north of and located in the surrounding area of . The village is located in the Lot Department. The book From Here You Can't See Paris made this region famous.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Martin de Caniac-du-Causse and Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Soulomès.

Church
is a church.

Lot

Latitude
44.627° or 44° 37′ 37″ north
Longitude
1.6346° or 1° 38′ 5″ east
Population
176,000
Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)
Open location code
8FP3JJGM+RR
Geo­Names ID
2997524
Wiki­data ID
Q12576
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lot” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Lot
  • Albanian: Olt
  • Arabic: لوت
  • Aragonese: Òlt
  • Armenian: Լո
  • Armenian: Լոտ
  • Arpitan: Lot
  • Azerbaijani: Lo (departament)
  • Azerbaijani: Lo
  • Basque: Lot
  • Belarusian: дэпартамент Лот
  • Belarusian: Лёт
  • Belarusian: Ло (дэпартамент)
  • Belarusian: Ло
  • Belarusian: Лот (дэпартамент)
  • Belarusian: Лот
  • Bengali: লট
  • Breton: Lot
  • Bulgarian: Лот
  • Catalan: Òlt
  • Cebuano: Lot
  • Chechen: Ло
  • Chinese: Lot
  • Chinese: 洛特
  • Chinese: 洛特省
  • Chuvash: Ло
  • Chuvash: Лот
  • Czech: Lot
  • Danish: Lot
  • Dutch: Lot (departement)
  • Dutch: Lot
  • Egyptian Arabic: لوت (اداره)
  • Egyptian Arabic: لوت
  • Esperanto: Lot
  • Estonian: Loti departemang
  • Finnish: Lot
  • French: département du Lot
  • French: FR-46
  • French: Lot
  • Galician: Lot
  • Georgian: ლო
  • Georgian: ლოს დეპარტამენტი
  • German: Département Lot
  • German: FR-46
  • German: Lot
  • Greek: Λοτ
  • Gujarati: લોટ
  • Hakka Chinese: Lot-sén
  • Hebrew: לוט
  • Hindi: लॉट
  • Hungarian: Lot
  • Indonesian: Lot
  • Interlingua: Departimento Lot
  • Irish: Lot
  • Italian: Lot
  • Japanese: ロット県
  • Kannada: ಲಾಟ್
  • Kazakh: Ло
  • Kongo: Lot
  • Korean: 로트주
  • Ladin: Lot
  • Ladino: Lot
  • Latin: Oldus
  • Latin: Oltis
  • Latvian: Lo (departaments)
  • Latvian: Lo
  • Limburgan: Lot
  • Lithuanian: Lo (departamentas)
  • Lithuanian: Lo
  • Lombard: Lot
  • Low German: Lot
  • Luxembourgish: Departement Lot
  • Macedonian: Лот
  • Malagasy: Lot
  • Malay: Lot
  • Marathi: लॉत
  • Min Nan Chinese: Lot
  • Northern Frisian: Lot (Department)
  • Northern Frisian: Lot
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Lot
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Departementet Lot
  • Norwegian: Lot
  • Occitan (post 1500): Òut
  • Ossetian: Лот (департамент)
  • Ossetian: Лот
  • Pampanga: Lot
  • Persian: لو
  • Piemontese: Dipartiment dël Lot
  • Piemontese: Lot
  • Polish: Lot
  • Portuguese: Lot
  • Romanian: departamentul Lot
  • Romanian: Lot
  • Russian: Ло
  • Scots: Lot
  • Scottish Gaelic: Lot
  • Serbian: Лот
  • Serbo-Croatian: Lot
  • Sinhala: ලොට්
  • Slovak: Lot
  • Slovenian: Lot
  • Spanish: Lot
  • Swahili: Lot
  • Swedish: Lot
  • Tajik: Департаменти Лот
  • Tamil: லோட்
  • Telugu: లోట్
  • Thai: จังหวัดล็อต
  • Tosk Albanian: Département Lot
  • Turkish: Lot
  • Ukrainian: Лот
  • Urdu: لوت
  • Venetian: Lot
  • Vietnamese: Lot, Midi-Pyrénées
  • Vietnamese: Lot
  • Volapük: Lot
  • Waray (Philippines): Lot
  • Welsh: Lot
  • Western Panjabi: ضلع لاٹ
  • Wu Chinese: 洛特省
  • Yue Chinese: 洛特

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