Orne
Orne is a department in Normandy. It is the least populated department of Normandy, characterized by forests and extensive pastureland. Apart from the main town of Alençon, there are no major cities, but there are a number of castles, fortresses and manor houses.Photo: DamTESC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Alençon and Argentan.
Alençon
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Alençon is a city in Orne on the River Sarthe. Alençon is a restored gem. A visit is like travelling through time. Among its centuries-old highlights are the circular wheat market, home to exhibitions beneath its magnificent glass dome; the Halle aux Toiles, now a meeting venue; and the restored Jesuit church.
Argentan
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Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France. As of 2019, Argentan is the third largest municipality by population in the Orne department.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château d’O and Château de Médavy.
Église Notre-Dame de Boissei-la-Lande
Church
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Église Notre-Dame de Boissei-la-Lande is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Château-d’Almenêches and Boissei-la-Lande.
Le Château-d’Almenêches
Village
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Le Château-d'Almenêches is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Boissei-la-Lande
Village
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Boissei-la-Lande is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.
Médavy
Village
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Médavy is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Orne
- Type: department of France with 276,000 residents
- Description: department in Normandy, France
- Also known as: “Département de l’Orne”
- Neighbors: Calvados, Eure, and Manche
- Location: Normandy, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Orne” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Orne”
- Albanian: “Orne”
- Arabic: “أرن”
- Arabic: “أورن”
- Aragonese: “Orne”
- Armenian: “Օրն”
- Arpitan: “Orne”
- Asturian: “Orne”
- Azerbaijani: “Orn”
- Basque: “Orne”
- Bavarian: “Département Orne”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Орн”
- Belarusian: “Орн (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Орн”
- Bengali: “ওর্ন”
- Breton: “Orne”
- Bulgarian: “Орн”
- Catalan: “Orne”
- Cebuano: “Orne”
- Chechen: “ОгӀн”
- Chechen: “Орн”
- Chinese: “Orne”
- Chinese: “奥恩省”
- Chinese: “奧恩”
- Chinese: “奧恩省”
- Chuvash: “Орн”
- Czech: “Orne”
- Dagbani: “Orne”
- Danish: “Orne”
- Dutch: “Orne (departement)”
- Dutch: “Orne”
- Esperanto: “Orne”
- Estonian: “Orne’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Orne”
- French: “FR-61”
- French: “Orne”
- Galician: “Orne”
- Georgian: “ორნი”
- German: “Département Orne”
- German: “FR-61”
- German: “Orne”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Orne”
- Greek: “Ορν”
- Gujarati: “ઓરને”
- Hakka Chinese: “Orne”
- Hebrew: “אורן”
- Hindi: “ओर्न”
- Hungarian: “Orne”
- Indonesian: “Orne”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Orne”
- Irish: “Orne”
- Italian: “Orne”
- Japanese: “オルヌ県”
- Kannada: “ಒರ್ನೆ”
- Kazakh: “Орн”
- Kongo: “Orne”
- Korean: “오른주”
- Ladin: “Orne”
- Ladino: “Orne”
- Latin: “Olina”
- Latvian: “Orna”
- Limburgan: “Orne”
- Lithuanian: “Ornas”
- Lombard: “Orne”
- Low German: “Orne”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Orne”
- Macedonian: “Орн”
- Malagasy: “Orne”
- Malay: “Orne”
- Malayalam: “ഓർനെ”
- Marathi: “ऑर्न”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orne”
- Narom: “Orne”
- Northern Frisian: “Orne (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Orne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orne”
- Norwegian: “Orne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Òrna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Orne”
- Ossetian: “Орн (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Орн”
- Pampanga: “Orne”
- Persian: “اورن”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Orne”
- Piemontese: “Orne”
- Polish: “Orne”
- Portuguese: “Orne”
- Romanian: “departamentul Orne”
- Romanian: “Orne”
- Russian: “Орн (департамент)”
- Russian: “Орн”
- Scots: “Orne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Orne”
- Serbian: “Орн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orne”
- Sinhala: “ඔර්නේ”
- Slovak: “Orne”
- Slovenian: “Orne”
- Spanish: “Orne”
- Swahili: “Orne”
- Swedish: “Orne”
- Swiss German: “Département Orne”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Орн”
- Tamil: “ஓரனே”
- Telugu: “ఆర్నె”
- Thai: “จังหวัดออร์น”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Orne”
- Turkish: “Orne”
- Ukrainian: “Орн”
- Urdu: “اورن”
- Venetian: “Orne”
- Vietnamese: “Orne”
- Vlaams: “Orne”
- Volapük: “Orne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orne”
- Welsh: “Orne”
- Western Frisian: “Orne”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اورنے”
- Wu Chinese: “奥恩省”
- Yue Chinese: “奧恩”
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