Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement of Rochefort

Royan

Royan is a port city and seaside resort in , southwestern . It's along with , and one of the most famous resorts on the French Atlantic coast.
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  • Type: Town with 19,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Charente-Maritime, France
  • Postal codes: 17200 and 17200
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royan and Palais des congrès de Royan.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Community center
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is a community center.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Georges-de-Didonne.

Village
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is a commune in the department and region in southwestern . An important seaside resort of Royan and the coast of Beauty, on the right bank of the mouth of the Gironde estuary and adjacent… is situated 3½ km southeast of Royan.

Royan

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
United Nations Location Code
FR RYN
Open location code
8CQWJXFC+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2982343
Wiki­data ID
Q81909
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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: “Roian”
  • Catalan: “Royan”
  • Cebuano: “Royan (lungsod)”
  • Cebuano: “Royan”
  • Chechen: “ГӀуайан”
  • Chinese: “Royan”
  • Chinese: “鲁扬”
  • 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”
  • Kabyle: “Royan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Royan”
  • Kongo: “Royan”
  • Korean: “루아양”
  • Ladin: “Royan”
  • Ladino: “Royan”
  • Latin: “Roiannum”
  • Latin: “Royan”
  • Latin: “Royanum”
  • Latvian: “Royan”
  • Latvian: “Ruajāna”
  • Ligurian: “Roian”
  • Limburgan: “Royan”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruajan”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruajanas”
  • Low German: “Royan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Royan”
  • Macedonian: “Ројан”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Royan”
  • Malagasy: “Royan”
  • Malay: “Royan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Royan”
  • Minangkabau: “Royan”
  • Narom: “Royan”
  • Neapolitan: “Royan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Royan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Royan”
  • Norwegian: “Royan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roian”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Royan”
  • 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”
  • Serbian: “Руајан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Royan”
  • Sicilian: “Royan”
  • Slovak: “Royan”
  • Slovenian: “Royan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رویان”
  • Spanish: “Royan”
  • Swahili: “Royan”
  • Swedish: “Royan”
  • Swiss German: “Royan”
  • Tatar: “Руайан”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Royan”
  • Turkish: “Royan”
  • Ukrainian: “Руаян”
  • 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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