Brittany
Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement of Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is the chief city of in northwest France. It's mostly modern and industrial, but has many grand 18th and 19th century buildings, and survivors of earlier times.
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  • Type: City with 225,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the region of Brittany, France
  • Also known as: “City of Rennes”, “Rennes, France”, and “Roazhon”
  • Postal codes: 35000, 35000, 35200, 35200, 35700, and 35700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rennes Cathedral and Rennes station.

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is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Rennes, . It has been a monument historique since 1906. The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, is the seat of the Archbishop of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo, previously Bishop of Rennes.

Railway station
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is situated in the town centre of Rennes, France. It is situated on the Paris–Brest, Rennes–Saint-Malo and the Rennes–Redon railways. The station at Rennes was opened in 1857 and was situated a significant walking distance from the city centre.

Town hall
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Hôtel de Ville de Rennes is the seat of the city council in the French city of Rennes. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1962.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande.

Town
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is a commune of Rennes Métropole in the department of in northwestern .

Rennes

Latitude
48.1113° or 48° 6′ 41″ north
Longitude
-1.68° or 1° 40′ 48″ west
Population
225,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
RNS
United Nations Location Code
FR RNS
Open location code
8CWW4869+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686526
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2983990
Wiki­data ID
Q647
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rennes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rennes”
  • Albanian: “Rennes”
  • Arabic: “رين”
  • Arabic: “رينيه”
  • Aragonese: “Rennes”
  • Aragonese: “Roazhon”
  • Armenian: “Ռեն”
  • Arpitan: “Renes”
  • Arpitan: “Rènes”
  • Asturian: “Rennes”
  • Aymara: “Rennes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ren”
  • Balinese: “Rennes”
  • Bambara: “Rennes”
  • Basque: “Rennes”
  • Bavarian: “Rennes”
  • Belarusian: “Рэн (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Рэн”
  • Bengali: “রেন”
  • Bengali: “রেনেস, ফ্রান্স”
  • Bosnian: “Rennes”
  • Breton: “Roazhon”
  • Bulgarian: “Рен”
  • Cajun French: “Rennes”
  • Catalan: “Rennes”
  • Catalan: “Resna”
  • Catalan: “Resnn”
  • Catalan: “Roaçona”
  • Catalan: “Roazhon”
  • Cebuano: “Rennes”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕێن”
  • Central Kurdish: “غێن”
  • Chechen: “ГӀенн”
  • Chinese: “Rennes”
  • Chinese: “利拿”
  • Chinese: “雷恩”
  • Chinese: “雷恩市”
  • Chuvash: “Ренн”
  • Cornish: “Roazhon”
  • Corsican: “Rennes”
  • Croatian: “Rennes”
  • Czech: “Rennes”
  • Dagbani: “Rennes”
  • Danish: “Rennes”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rennes”
  • Dutch: “Rennes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رين”
  • Esperanto: “Reneso”
  • Esperanto: “Rennes”
  • Esperanto: “Renno”
  • Esperanto: “Roazhon”
  • Estonian: “Rennes”
  • Extremaduran: “Rennes”
  • Faroese: “Rennes”
  • Finnish: “Rennes”
  • French: “Rennes”
  • French: “Ville de Rennes”
  • Friulian: “Rennes”
  • Galician: “Rennes”
  • Georgian: “რენი”
  • German: “Rennes”
  • Greek: “Ρεν”
  • Gujarati: “રેનેસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Rennes”
  • Hausa: “Rennes”
  • Hebrew: “רן”
  • Hindi: “रेन्नेस, फ्रांस”
  • Hindi: “रेन्नेस”
  • Hungarian: “Rennes”
  • Icelandic: “Rennes”
  • Ido: “Rennes”
  • Indonesian: “Rennes”
  • Interlingua: “Rennes”
  • Interlingue: “Rennes”
  • Irish: “Rennes”
  • Irish: “Roazhon”
  • Italian: “Rennes”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Rennes”
  • Japanese: “レンヌ”
  • Javanese: “Rennes”
  • Kabyle: “Rennes”
  • Kalaallisut: “Rennes”
  • Kannada: “ರೆನ್ನೆಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ренн”
  • Kongo: “Rennes”
  • Korean: “렌”
  • Kurdish: “Rennes”
  • Ladin: “Rennes”
  • Latin: “Condate Redonum” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Renna”
  • Ligurian: “Rennes”
  • Limburgan: “Rennes”
  • Lingala: “Rennes”
  • Lithuanian: “Renas”
  • Low German: “Rennes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rennes”
  • Macedonian: “Рен”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Rennes”
  • Malagasy: “Rennes”
  • Malay: “Rennes”
  • Maltese: “Rennes”
  • Manx: “Rennes”
  • Manx: “Roazhon”
  • Marathi: “ऱ्हेन”
  • Mazanderani: “رن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rennes”
  • Minangkabau: “Rennes”
  • Moksha: “Рэнн”
  • Narom: “Rennes”
  • Narom: “Roazhon”
  • Neapolitan: “Rennes”
  • Nepali: “रेन्नेस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rennes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rennes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rennes”
  • Norwegian: “Rennes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rènnas de Bretanha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rènnas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rennes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roazhon”
  • Ossetian: “Ренн”
  • Papiamento: “Rennes”
  • Persian: “رن”
  • Picard: “Rennes”
  • Piemontese: “Rennes”
  • Polish: “Rennes”
  • Pontic: “Ρεν”
  • Portuguese: “Rennes”
  • Prussian: “Rennes”
  • Quechua: “Rennes”
  • Romagnol: “Rennes”
  • Romanian: “Rennes”
  • Romansh: “Rennes”
  • Russian: “Рен”
  • Russian: “Ренн”
  • Sardinian: “Rennes”
  • Scots: “Rennes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roazhon”
  • Serbian: “Rennes”
  • Serbian: “Рен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rennes”
  • Sicilian: “Rennes”
  • Sinhala: “රෙන්නේස්”
  • Slovak: “Rennes”
  • Slovenian: “Rennes”
  • Somali: “Rennes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رن”
  • Spanish: “Rennes”
  • Swahili: “Rennes”
  • Swedish: “Rennes”
  • Swiss German: “Rennes”
  • Tamil: “ரேன்”
  • Tatar: “Ренн”
  • Telugu: “రెన్నెస్”
  • Thai: “แรน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rennes”
  • Tsonga: “Wren”
  • Turkish: “Rennes”
  • Twi: “Rennes”
  • Uighur: “Rénn Shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Ренн”
  • Urdu: “رین”
  • Uzbek: “Rennes”
  • Venetian: “Rennes”
  • Vietnamese: “Rennes”
  • Vlaams: “Rennes”
  • Volapük: “Rennes”
  • Walloon: “Rennes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rennes”
  • Welsh: “Roazhon”
  • Western Panjabi: “رینے”
  • Wolof: “Rennes”
  • Wu Chinese: “雷恩”
  • Yue Chinese: “利拿”
  • Zeeuws: “Rennes”
  • Zulu: “Rennes”
  • “Rennes”
  • “Roazhon”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Rennes”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.