Pays de la Loire
Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement of Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire is a port town of 153,000 people at the mouth of the Loire, near in western .
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  • Type: Town with 72,100 residents
  • Description: commune in Loire-Atlantique, France
  • Also known as: “Port-Nazaire”, “Saint Nazaire”, “Saint-Nazaer”, “Saint-Nazère”, “Sant-Nazer”, “Señ Neñseir”, and “St. Nazaire”
  • Postal codes: 44600 and 44600
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include German U-Boats Bunker/ U-Boat pens and Saint-Nazaire station.

Photo: KaTeznik, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
The submarine base of Saint-Nazaire is one of five large fortified U-boat pens built by Germany during the Second World War in occupied Saint-Nazaire, France.

Railway station
Photo: Quoique, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Gare de Saint-Nazaire is the passenger railway station serving the town and port of Saint-Nazaire. Designed by Noël Le Maresquier with a functional and maritime style, it was built in 1955 in anticipation of the arrival of the TGV Atlantique and replaced an older station in the town developed in the 19th century by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans railway.

Museum
Photo: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Espadon was a Narval-class submarine of the French Navy. Along with sister boat Marsouin, the boat was the first French submarine to steam under sea ice. The boat is currently a museum ship.

Saint-Nazaire

Latitude
47.2734° or 47° 16′ 24″ north
Longitude
-2.2139° or 2° 12′ 50″ west
Population
72,100
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
SNR
United Nations Location Code
FR SNR
Open location code
8CVV7QFP+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1580710029
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2977921
Wiki­data ID
Q152027
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Saint-Nazaire” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Afrikaans: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Albanian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Arabic: “سان نازير”
  • Aragonese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Aragonese: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Armenian: “Սեն Նազեր”
  • Arpitan: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Asturian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Bambara: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Basque: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Bavarian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Belarusian: “Сен-Назер”
  • Belarusian: “Сэн-Назэр”
  • Bengali: “সা-নাজের”
  • Breton: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Bulgarian: “Сен Назер”
  • Cajun French: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Catalan: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Catalan: “Saint-Nazère”
  • Catalan: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Cebuano: “Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique”
  • Cebuano: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Chamorro: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Chechen: “Сен-НазегӀ”
  • Chinese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Chinese: “圣纳泽尔”
  • Chinese: “聖納澤爾”
  • Chuvash: “Сен-Назер”
  • Corsican: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Croatian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Czech: “Nazaire”
  • Czech: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Czech: “St. Nazaire”
  • Danish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Dutch: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Dutch: “Sant Nazer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان نازير”
  • Esperanto: “Penhoët”
  • Esperanto: “Port-Nazaire”
  • Esperanto: “Saint Nazaire”
  • Esperanto: “Saint-Nazaer”
  • Esperanto: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Esperanto: “Saint-Nazère”
  • Esperanto: “Sant Nazer”
  • Esperanto: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Esperanto: “Señ Neñseir”
  • Estonian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Faroese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Finnish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Finnish: “St. Nazaire”
  • French: “Port-Nazaire”
  • French: “Saint-Nazaer”
  • French: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • French: “Saint-Nazère”
  • French: “Sant Nazer”
  • French: “Sant-Nazer”
  • French: “Señ Neñseir”
  • Friulian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Galician: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • German: “Port-Nazaire”
  • German: “Saint Nazaire”
  • German: “Saint-Nazaer”
  • German: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • German: “Saint-Nazère”
  • German: “Sant-Nazer”
  • German: “Señ Neñseir”
  • German: “St. Nazaire”
  • Greek: “Penhoët”
  • Greek: “Σαιν-Ναζαίρ”
  • Hebrew: “סן-נאזר”
  • Hungarian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Icelandic: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Ido: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Indonesian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Indonesian: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Interlingua: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Interlingue: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Irish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Irish: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Italian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Italian: “Saint-Nazère”
  • Italian: “Sant Nazer”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Japanese: “サン・ナゼール”
  • Japanese: “サン＝ナゼール (ロワール＝アトランティック県)”
  • Japanese: “サン=ナゼール”
  • Japanese: “サン＝ナゼール”
  • Japanese: “同港”
  • Kabyle: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Kalaallisut: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Kölsch: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Kongo: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Korean: “생나제르”
  • Kurdish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Ladin: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Latin: “Fanum Sancti Nazarii in Sinnuario”
  • Latin: “Sancti Nazarii oppidum”
  • Latin: “Sanctus Nazarius in Sinnuario”
  • Latvian: “Sennazēra”
  • Ligurian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Limburgan: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Lithuanian: “Sen Nazeras”
  • Low German: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Macedonian: “Сен Назер”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Malagasy: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Malay: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Mazanderani: “سن نزر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Minangkabau: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Narom: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Neapolitan: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Commune de Saint-Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St-Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saint Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Norwegian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sant-Nazer”
  • Papiamento: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Persian: “سن نزر”
  • Persian: “سن-نزر”
  • Picard: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Piemontese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Polish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Portuguese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Portuguese: “St. Nazaire”
  • Prussian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Romagnol: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Romanian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Romansh: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Russian: “Сен-Назер”
  • Sardinian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Scots: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Serbian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Serbian: “Sen Nazer”
  • Serbian: “Сен Назер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Sicilian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Silesian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Slovak: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Slovenian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Slovenian: “St. Nazaire”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سن-نزر”
  • Spanish: “Port-Nazaire”
  • Spanish: “Saint Nazaire”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Nazaer”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Nazère”
  • Spanish: “Sant Nazer”
  • Spanish: “Señ Neñseir”
  • Swahili: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Swedish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Swedish: “St Nazaire”
  • Swedish: “St. Nazaire”
  • Swiss German: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Tamil: “சென் நசேர்”
  • Tatar: “Сен-Назер”
  • Thai: “แซ็ง-นาแซร์”
  • Turkish: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Ukrainian: “Сен-Назер”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ-نظارے”
  • Venetian: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Vlaams: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Volapük: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Walloon: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Welsh: “Saint Nazaire”
  • Welsh: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Welsh: “Sant-Nazer”
  • Wolof: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣纳泽尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖納澤爾”
  • Zulu: “Saint-Nazaire”
  • “Saint-Nazaire”

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