Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement of Pau

Pau

Pau is a commune overlooking the , the prefecture of the department in the region of Southwestern France.
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  • Type: City with 77,100 residents
  • Description: city and commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
  • Also known as: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques” and “Paue”
  • Postal codes: 64000 and 64000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Pau and Pau station.

Castle
Photo: Capbourrut, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a castle in the centre of the city of Pau, the capital of and Béarn. It dominates that quarter of the city. Henry IV of France and Navarre was born here on December 13, 1553, and it was once used by Napoleon as a holiday home during his period of power.

Railway station
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The gare de Pau is a railway station in Pau, , . The station is located on the Toulouse-Bayonne and Pau-Canfranc railway lines.

Museum
Photo: Patrice Bon, CC0.
The is a town museum in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France. In 1864 it was founded by the Société des Amis des Arts de Pau and by its president Charles Le Cœur, who became the museum's first curator.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Billère and Jurançon.

Town
Photo: Mairie de Billère, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in southwestern . It is a northwestern suburb of Pau.

Village
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is a commune in the department in , . It is part of the traditional province of Béarn.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southwestern .

Pau

Latitude
43.2958° or 43° 17′ 45″ north
Longitude
-0.3686° or 0° 22′ 7″ west
Population
77,100
Elevation
219 metres (719 feet)
IATA airport code
PUF
United Nations Location Code
FR PUF
Open location code
8CMX7JWJ+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692268
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2988358
Wiki­data ID
Q132671
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Pau” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pau”
  • Afrikaans: “Pau”
  • Albanian: “Pau”
  • Arabic: “بو (فرنسا)”
  • Arabic: “بو”
  • Aragonese: “Pau”
  • Armenian: “Պո”
  • Arpitan: “Pau”
  • Asturian: “Pau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Po (Atlantik Pireney)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Po”
  • Balinese: “Pau”
  • Bambara: “Pau”
  • Basque: “Pabe”
  • Basque: “Pau”
  • Basque: “Paue”
  • Bavarian: “Pau”
  • Belarusian: “По”
  • Bengali: “পো”
  • Breton: “Pau”
  • Bulgarian: “По”
  • Cajun French: “Pau”
  • Catalan: “Pau”
  • Catalan: “Paue”
  • Cebuano: “Pau (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Pau”
  • Chechen: “По (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “По”
  • Chinese: “Pau”
  • Chinese: “波城”
  • Chuvash: “По (хула)”
  • Chuvash: “По”
  • Corsican: “Pau”
  • Croatian: “Pau”
  • Croatian: “Paue”
  • Czech: “Pau”
  • Czech: “Paue”
  • Danish: “Pau”
  • Dutch: “Pau”
  • Dutch: “Paue”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بو”
  • Esperanto: “Pau”
  • Esperanto: “Paue”
  • Esperanto: “Paŭo”
  • Estonian: “Pau”
  • Estonian: “Paue”
  • Faroese: “Pau”
  • Finnish: “Pau”
  • French: “Palois”
  • French: “Paloise”
  • French: “Paloises”
  • French: “Pau”
  • French: “Paue”
  • Friulian: “Pau”
  • Galician: “Pau, Francia”
  • Galician: “Pau”
  • Georgian: “პო”
  • German: “Pau”
  • German: “Paue”
  • Greek: “Πω”
  • Gujarati: “પાઉ”
  • Hebrew: “פו”
  • Hindi: “पाउ”
  • Hungarian: “Pau”
  • Icelandic: “Pau”
  • Ido: “Pau”
  • Indonesian: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Indonesian: “Pau”
  • Indonesian: “Paue”
  • Interlingua: “Pau”
  • Interlingue: “Pau”
  • Irish: “Pau”
  • Italian: “Pau”
  • Italian: “Paue”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Pau”
  • Japanese: “ポー”
  • Javanese: “Pau”
  • Kabyle: “Pau”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pau”
  • Kannada: “ಪೌ”
  • Kazakh: “По”
  • Kongo: “Pau”
  • Korean: “포”
  • Kotava: “Pau”
  • Kurdish: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Ladin: “Pau”
  • Latin: “Palum”
  • Latin: “Pau”
  • Latvian: “Paue”
  • Latvian: “Po (pilsēta)”
  • Latvian: “Po”
  • Ligurian: “Pau”
  • Limburgan: “Pau”
  • Lithuanian: “Pau”
  • Lithuanian: “Paue”
  • Lithuanian: “Po (Prancūzija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Po”
  • Lojban: “po”
  • Low German: “Pau”
  • Low German: “Paue”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pau”
  • Macedonian: “По”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Pau”
  • Malagasy: “Pau”
  • Malay: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Malay: “Pau”
  • Marathi: “प्याऊ”
  • Mazanderani: “پیرنه-آتلانتیک، پو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pau”
  • Minangkabau: “Pau”
  • Narom: “Pau”
  • Neapolitan: “Pau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pau”
  • Norwegian: “Pau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paue”
  • Ossetian: “По (Франц)”
  • Ossetian: “По”
  • Papiamento: “Pau”
  • Persian: “پو”
  • Persian: “پیرنه-آتلانتیک، پو”
  • Picard: “Pau”
  • Piemontese: “Pau”
  • Polish: “Pau”
  • Polish: “Paue”
  • Portuguese: “Pau”
  • Portuguese: “Paue”
  • Prussian: “Pau”
  • Quechua: “Pau”
  • Romagnol: “Pau”
  • Romanian: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Romanian: “Pau”
  • Romansh: “Pau”
  • Russian: “Paue”
  • Russian: “Пау”
  • Russian: “По”
  • Sardinian: “Pau”
  • Scots: “Pau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pau”
  • Serbian: “Pau”
  • Serbian: “Po”
  • Serbian: “По”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pau”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Po”
  • Sicilian: “Pau”
  • Silesian: “Pau”
  • Sinhala: “පාවූ”
  • Slovak: “Pau”
  • Slovak: “Paue”
  • Slovenian: “Pau, Francija”
  • Slovenian: “Pau”
  • Slovenian: “Paue”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پو”
  • Spanish: “Pau”
  • Swahili: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Swahili: “Pau”
  • Swedish: “Pau”
  • Swedish: “Paue”
  • Swiss German: “Pau”
  • Swiss German: “Paue”
  • Tachawit: “Po”
  • Tajik: “По”
  • Tajik: “Пӯ”
  • Tamil: “ப்பா”
  • Tatar: “По”
  • Telugu: “పౌ”
  • Thai: “Pau”
  • Thai: “โป”
  • Thai: “โพ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pau”
  • Tumbuka: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Turkish: “Pau”
  • Ukrainian: “По”
  • Urdu: “پاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Pau”
  • Venetian: “Pau”
  • Vietnamese: “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Vietnamese: “Pau”
  • Vlaams: “Pau”
  • Volapük: “Pau”
  • Walloon: “Pau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pau”
  • Welsh: “Pau”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاؤ”
  • Wolof: “Pau”
  • Wu Chinese: “波城”
  • Yue Chinese: “波城”
  • Zulu: “Pau”
  • “Pau”

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