Pays de la Loire
Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement of Nantes

Nantes

Nantes is the capital of region in northwest France. Historically it was part of , whose dukes built up its castle and made the town their capital.
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  • Type: City with 323,000 residents
  • Description: city in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
  • Also known as: “Naoned” and “Naunnt”
  • Postal codes: 44000, 44000, 44100, 44100, 44200, 44200, 44300, and 44300
Photo: Grand Parc - Bordeaux, France, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nantes Cathedral and Museum of Fine Art of Nantes.

Church
Photo: Eusebius, Public domain.
, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes, is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, , .

Museum
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The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX. Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region.

Railway station
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is the principal passenger railway station serving the city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east–west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rezé and Île Feydeau.

Town
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is a commune and former bishopric in the department in the region of western . It is a southern suburb of Nantes. It was also called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Locality
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is a locality.

Nantes

Latitude
47.2186° or 47° 13′ 7″ north
Longitude
-1.5541° or 1° 33′ 15″ west
Population
323,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
NTE
United Nations Location Code
FR NTE
Open location code
8CVW6C9W+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686548
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2990969
Wiki­data ID
Q12191
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nantes” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nantes”
  • Afrikaans: “Nantes”
  • Albanian: “Nantes”
  • Amharic: “ናንት”
  • Arabic: “نانت”
  • Aragonese: “Nantes”
  • Aragonese: “Naoned”
  • Armenian: “Նանտ”
  • Arpitan: “Nantes”
  • Asturian: “Nantes”
  • Aymara: “Nantes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nant”
  • Balinese: “Nantes”
  • Bambara: “Nantes”
  • Basque: “Nantes”
  • Basque: “Naoned”
  • Bavarian: “Nantes”
  • Belarusian: “Нант”
  • Bengali: “নঁত”
  • Bengali: “নান্তেস, নঁতে”
  • Breton: “Naoned”
  • Bulgarian: “Нант”
  • Burmese: “နံ့တ်”
  • Cajun French: “Nantes”
  • Catalan: “Nantes”
  • Catalan: “Naoned”
  • Cebuano: “Nantes”
  • Chamorro: “Nantes”
  • Chechen: “Нант”
  • Chinese: “Nantes”
  • Chinese: “南特”
  • Chuvash: “Нант”
  • Cornish: “Naoned”
  • Corsican: “Nantes”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nant”
  • Croatian: “Nantes”
  • Czech: “Nantes”
  • Dagbani: “Nantes”
  • Danish: “Nantes”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nantes”
  • Dutch: “Nantes”
  • Dutch: “Naoned”
  • Dutch: “Naunnt”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نانت”
  • Esperanto: “Nantes”
  • Esperanto: “Nanto”
  • Esperanto: “Naoned”
  • Esperanto: “Naunnt”
  • Estonian: “Nantes”
  • Extremaduran: “Nanti”
  • Faroese: “Nantes”
  • Finnish: “Nantes”
  • French: “‘cité des ducs de Bretagne’”
  • French: “Nantes”
  • French: “Naoned”
  • French: “Naunnt”
  • Friulian: “Nantes”
  • Galician: “Nantes, Francia”
  • Galician: “Nantes”
  • Galician: “Naoned”
  • Georgian: “ნანტი”
  • German: “Nantes”
  • German: “Naoned”
  • German: “Naunnt”
  • Greek: “Νάντη”
  • Gujarati: “નૅંટ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Nant”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nantes”
  • Hausa: “Nantes”
  • Hebrew: “נאנט”
  • Hebrew: “עיר הדוכסים”
  • Hindi: “नांत”
  • Hindi: “नैंट्स, नोंत”
  • Hungarian: “Nantes”
  • Icelandic: “Nantes”
  • Ido: “Nantes”
  • Iloko: “Nantes”
  • Indonesian: “Nantes”
  • Interlingua: “Nantes”
  • Interlingue: “Nantes”
  • Irish: “Nantes”
  • Irish: “Naoned”
  • Italian: “Nante”
  • Italian: “Nantes”
  • Italian: “Naoned”
  • Italian: “Naunnt”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nantes”
  • Japanese: “ナント”
  • Javanese: “Nantes”
  • Kabyle: “Nantes”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nantes”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಂಟೆಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಂತ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nant”
  • Kazakh: “Нант”
  • Kongo: “Nantes”
  • Korean: “낭트”
  • Kotava: “Nantes”
  • Kurdish: “Nantes”
  • Ladin: “Nantes”
  • Ladino: “Nantes”
  • Latin: “Portus Namnetum”
  • Latin: “Portus Namnetus”
  • Latvian: “Nante”
  • Ligurian: “Nantes”
  • Limburgan: “Nantes”
  • Lingala: “Nantes”
  • Lithuanian: “Nantas”
  • Low German: “Nantes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nantes”
  • Macedonian: “Нант”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Nantes”
  • Malagasy: “Nantes”
  • Malay: “Nantes”
  • Maltese: “Nantes”
  • Manx: “Nantes”
  • Manx: “Naoned”
  • Marathi: “नाँत”
  • Mazanderani: “نانت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nantes”
  • Minangkabau: “Nantes”
  • Mongolian: “Нант”
  • Narom: “Nantes”
  • Neapolitan: “Nantes”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nantes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nantes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nantes”
  • Norwegian: “Nantes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nantas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nantes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Naoned”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Naunnt”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Namnethām”
  • Ossetian: “Нант”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੌਂਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Nantes”
  • Persian: “نانت”
  • Picard: “Nantes”
  • Piemontese: “Nantes”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Naant”
  • Polish: “Nantes”
  • Pontic: “Ναντ”
  • Portuguese: “Nantes”
  • Prussian: “Nantes”
  • Quechua: “Nantes”
  • Romagnol: “Nantes”
  • Romanian: “Nantes”
  • Romansh: “Nantes”
  • Russian: “Нант”
  • Sardinian: “Nantes”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nantes”
  • Scots: “Nantes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nantes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Naoned”
  • Serbian: “Nantes”
  • Serbian: “Нант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nantes”
  • Sicilian: “Nantes”
  • Silesian: “Nantes”
  • Sinhala: “නැන්ටෙස්”
  • Slovak: “Nantes”
  • Slovenian: “Nantes”
  • Somali: “Nantes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نانت”
  • Spanish: “Nantes”
  • Spanish: “Naoned”
  • Spanish: “Naunnt”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⵓⵏⵟ”
  • Swahili: “Nantes”
  • Swedish: “Nantes”
  • Swiss German: “Nantes”
  • Tachelhit: “Nunṭ”
  • Tajik: “Нант”
  • Talysh: “Nant”
  • Tamil: “நாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Нант”
  • Telugu: “నాంట్”
  • Thai: “น็องต์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nantes”
  • Turkish: “Nantes”
  • Twi: “Nantes”
  • Ukrainian: “Нант”
  • Urdu: “نانت”
  • Uzbek: “Nant”
  • Uzbek: “Nantes”
  • Venetian: “Nantes”
  • Veps: “Nant”
  • Vietnamese: “Nantes”
  • Vlaams: “Nantes”
  • Volapük: “Nantes”
  • Walloon: “Nantes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nantes”
  • Welsh: “Nantes”
  • Welsh: “Naoned”
  • Western Armenian: “Նանթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Nantes”
  • Western Panjabi: “نانتیز”
  • Wolof: “Nantes”
  • Wu Chinese: “南特”
  • Yiddish: “נאנט”
  • Yiddish: “נאַנט”
  • Yue Chinese: “南特”
  • Zeeuws: “Nantes”
  • Zulu: “Nantes”
  • “Nantes”

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