Royan
Royan is a port city and seaside resort in Charente-Maritime, southwestern France. It's along with La Baule, Arcachon and Biarritz one of the most famous resorts on the French Atlantic coast.
- Type: Town with 19,000 residents
- Description: commune in Charente-Maritime, France
- Also known as: “Royan (lungsod)”, “Royanum”, “Ruajan”, “Руајан”, and “鲁扬”
- Postal code: 17200
Places of Interest
Highlights: Royan and Mairie de Royan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Georges-de-Didonne.
Saint-Georges-de-Didonne
Village
Royan
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.6245° or 45° 37′ 28″ north
Longitude
-1.0288° or 1° 1′ 44″ west
Population
19,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
RYN
UN/LOCODE
FR RYN
Open location code
8CQWJXFC+RF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Royan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Royan”
- Albanian: “Royan”
- Arabic: “رويان”
- Aragonese: “Royan”
- Armenian: “Ռուայան”
- Arpitan: “Royan”
- Asturian: “Royan”
- Azerbaijani: “Royan”
- Azerbaijani: “Ruayan”
- Bambara: “Royan”
- Basque: “Royan”
- Bavarian: “Royan”
- Belarusian: “Руайян”
- Belarusian: “Руаян”
- Bosnian: “Royan”
- Breton: “Royan”
- Bulgarian: “Роаян”
- Cajun French: “Royan”
- Catalan: “Royan”
- Cebuano: “Royan”
- Chechen: “ГӀуайан”
- Chinese: “鲁瓦扬”
- Corsican: “Royan”
- Croatian: “Royan”
- Czech: “Royan”
- Danish: “Royan”
- Dutch: “Royan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رويان”
- Esperanto: “Royan”
- Estonian: “Royan”
- Faroese: “Royan”
- Finnish: “Royan”
- French: “Royan”
- Friulian: “Royan”
- Galician: “Royan”
- German: “Royan”
- Greek: “Ρουαγιάν”
- Hungarian: “Royan”
- Icelandic: “Royan”
- Ido: “Royan”
- Indonesian: “Royan”
- Interlingua: “Royan”
- Interlingue: “Royan”
- Irish: “Royan”
- Italian: “Royan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Royan”
- Japanese: “ロワイヤン”
- Jèrriais: “Royan”
- Kabyle: “Royan”
- Kalaallisut: “Royan”
- Kongo: “Royan”
- Korean: “루아양”
- Ladin: “Royan”
- Ladino: “Royan”
- Latin: “Roiannum”
- Latvian: “Ruajāna”
- Ligurian: “Roian”
- Limburgan: “Royan”
- Lithuanian: “Ruajanas”
- Low German: “Royan”
- Luxembourgish: “Royan”
- Macedonian: “Роајан”
- Mainfränkisch: “Royan”
- Malagasy: “Royan”
- Malay: “Royan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Royan”
- Minangkabau: “Royan”
- Neapolitan: “Royan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Royan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Royan”
- Norwegian: “Royan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roian”
- Papiamento: “Royan”
- Persian: “رویان”
- Picard: “Royan”
- Piemontese: “Royan”
- Polish: “Royan”
- Portuguese: “Royan”
- Prussian: “Royan”
- Romagnol: “Royan”
- Romanian: “Royan”
- Romansh: “Royan”
- Russian: “Руайан”
- Russian: “Руайян”
- Sardinian: “Royan”
- Scots: “Royan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Royan”
- Serbian: “Royan”
- Serbian: “Роајан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Royan”
- Sicilian: “Royan”
- Slovak: “Royan”
- Slovenian: “Royan”
- South Azerbaijani: “رویان”
- Spanish: “Royan”
- Swahili: “Royan”
- Swedish: “Royan”
- Swiss German: “Royan”
- Tatar: “Руайан”
- Turkish: “Royan”
- Ukrainian: “Руаян”
- Urdu: “رویان”
- Venetian: “Royan”
- Vietnamese: “Royan”
- Vlaams: “Royan”
- Volapük: “Royan”
- Walloon: “Royan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Royan”
- Welsh: “Royan”
- Western Frisian: “Royan”
- Wolof: “Royan”
- Wu Chinese: “鲁瓦扬”
- Yue Chinese: “Royan”
- Zeeuws: “Royan”
- Zulu: “Royan”
- “Royan”
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