Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Vienne
Arrondissement of Poitiers

Poitiers

Poitiers is a university city on the river in west-central . It is a commune, the capital of the department, part of the region of France, and the historical center of .
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  • Type: City with 90,200 residents
  • Description: commune in Vienne, France
  • Postal code: 86000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Poitiers and Baptistère Saint-Jean.

Railway station
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Poitiers station is a major railway station in the city of Poitiers, in the department of and region of . The station is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway. It was built in the 1850s.

Church
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The is a Roman Catholic church in Poitiers, . It is reputed to be the oldest existing Christian building in France, and is one of the most prominent examples of Merovingian architecture.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church in Poitiers, . It is the seat of the Archbishop of Poitiers.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Benoît.

Village
Photo: Danielclauzier, CC BY 3.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in western . It is a southern suburb of Poitiers.

Poitiers

Latitude
46.5803° or 46° 34′ 49″ north
Longitude
0.3402° or 0° 20′ 25″ east
Population
90,200
Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)
IATA airport code
PIS
United Nations Location Code
FR PIS
Open location code
8FR2H8JR+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691769
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2986495
Wiki­data ID
Q6616
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Poitiers” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Poitiers”
  • Albanian: “Poitiers”
  • Arabic: “بواتييه”
  • Aragonese: “Piteus”
  • Armenian: “Պուատիե”
  • Arpitan: “Pouètiérs”
  • Asturian: “Poitiers”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puatye”
  • Bambara: “Poitiers”
  • Bashkir: “Пуатье”
  • Basque: “Poitiers”
  • Bavarian: “Poitiers”
  • Belarusian: “Пуат’е”
  • Belarusian: “Пуацье”
  • Bengali: “পোয়াতিয়ে”
  • Breton: “Poitiers”
  • Buginese: “Poitiers”
  • Bulgarian: “Поатие”
  • Cajun French: “Poitiers”
  • Catalan: “Peiteu”
  • Catalan: “Piteu”
  • Catalan: “Poitiers”
  • Catalan: “Potchiers”
  • Cebuano: “Poitiers”
  • Chechen: “Пуатье”
  • Chinese: “Poitiers”
  • Chinese: “普瓦捷”
  • Chinese: “普華鐵耶”
  • Chuvash: “Пуатье”
  • Corsican: “Poitiers”
  • Croatian: “Poitiers”
  • Czech: “Poitiers”
  • Dagbani: “Poitiers”
  • Danish: “Poitiers”
  • Dutch: “Poitiers”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بواتييه”
  • Esperanto: “Poitiers”
  • Esperanto: “Potevo”
  • Esperanto: “Puatiero”
  • Estonian: “Poitiers”
  • Faroese: “Poitiers”
  • Finnish: “Poitiers”
  • French: “Poitiers”
  • Friulian: “Poitiers”
  • Galician: “Poitiers”
  • Georgian: “პუატიე”
  • German: “Poitiers”
  • Greek: “Πουατιέ”
  • Gujarati: “પોઈતિઅર્સ”
  • Hebrew: “פואטייה”
  • Hindi: “पॉटिए”
  • Hungarian: “Poitiers”
  • Icelandic: “Poitiers”
  • Ido: “Poitiers”
  • Indonesian: “Poitiers”
  • Interlingua: “Poitiers”
  • Interlingue: “Poitiers”
  • Irish: “Poitiers”
  • Italian: “Poitiers”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Poitiers”
  • Japanese: “ポワチエ”
  • Kabyle: “Poitiers”
  • Kalaallisut: “Poitiers”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಯಿಟಿರ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ವಾತ್ಯರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Poitiers”
  • Kongo: “Poitiers”
  • Korean: “푸아티에”
  • Kotava: “Poitiers”
  • Ladin: “Poitiers”
  • Latin: “Limonum”
  • Latin: “Pictava”
  • Latin: “Pictavium”
  • Latvian: “Puatjē”
  • Ligurian: “Poitiers”
  • Limburgan: “Poitiers”
  • Lithuanian: “Puatjė”
  • Lombard: “Poitiers”
  • Low German: “Poitiers”
  • Luxembourgish: “Poitiers”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Poitiers”
  • Macedonian: “Поатје”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Poitiers”
  • Malagasy: “Poitiers”
  • Malay: “Poitiers”
  • Maltese: “Poitiers”
  • Marathi: “पॉइती”
  • Mazanderani: “پواتیه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poitiers”
  • Minangkabau: “Poitiers”
  • Narom: “Poitiers”
  • Neapolitan: “Poitiers”
  • Northern Frisian: “Poitiers”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poitiers”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poitiers”
  • Norwegian: “Poitiers”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peitieus”
  • Ossetian: “Пуатье”
  • Papiamento: “Poitiers”
  • Persian: “پواتیه”
  • Picard: “Poétiers”
  • Picard: “Poitiers”
  • Piemontese: “Poitiers”
  • Polish: “Poitiers”
  • Pontic: “Πουατιέ”
  • Portuguese: “Poitiers”
  • Prussian: “Poitiers”
  • Romagnol: “Poitiers”
  • Romanian: “Poitiers”
  • Romansh: “Poitiers”
  • Russian: “Пиктава”
  • Russian: “Пуатье”
  • Sardinian: “Poitiers”
  • Scots: “Poitiers”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Poitiers”
  • Serbian: “Poitiers”
  • Serbian: “Поатје”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poitiers”
  • Sicilian: “Poitiers”
  • Silesian: “Poitiers”
  • Sinhala: “පොයිටයර්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Poitiers”
  • Slovenian: “Poitiers”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پواتیه”
  • Spanish: “Poitiers”
  • Swahili: “Poitiers”
  • Swedish: “Poitiers”
  • Swiss German: “Poitiers”
  • Tamil: “போயிட்டர்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Пуатье”
  • Telugu: “పాటియేర్స్”
  • Thai: “ปัวตีเย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Poitiers”
  • Tumbuka: “Poitiers”
  • Turkish: “Poitiers, Fransa”
  • Turkish: “Poitiers”
  • Ukrainian: “Поатіє”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуатьє”
  • Urdu: “پوئتیے”
  • Uzbek: “Poitiers”
  • Venetian: “Poitiers”
  • Veps: “Puatje”
  • Vietnamese: “Poitiers”
  • Vlaams: “Poitiers”
  • Volapük: “Poitiers”
  • Walloon: “Poitiers”
  • Walloon: “Pwetî”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poitiers”
  • Welsh: “Poitiers”
  • Western Frisian: “Poitiers”
  • Western Panjabi: “پوئیٹیرز”
  • Wolof: “Poitiers”
  • Wu Chinese: “普瓦捷”
  • Yue Chinese: “普華鐵耶”
  • Zulu: “Poitiers”

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