Saumur
Saumur is a small historical town in the French region of Pays de la Loire, site of a dramatically situated château and the heart of its own world-renowned wine district. It is also the birthplace of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.
- Type: Town with 26,200 residents
- Description: commune in Maine-et-Loire, France
- Also known as: “Bagneux”, “Dampierre-sur-Loire”, “Saint-Lambert-des-Levées”, “Saumur (kapital sa arrondissement)”, “Νταμπιέρ-συρ-Λουάρ”, and “Σαιν-Λαμπέρ-ντε-Λεβέ”
- Postal code: 49400
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château de Saumur and Saumur station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villebernier.
Villebernier
Village
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.Saumur
- Categories: commune of France, city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
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Latitude
47.2596° or 47° 15′ 35″ north
Longitude
-0.0785° or 0° 4′ 43″ west
Population
26,200
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
IATA airport code
XSU
UN/LOCODE
FR SAU
Open location code
8CVX7W5C+RH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Saumur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saumur”
- Arabic: “سومور”
- Aragonese: “Saumur”
- Armenian: “Սոմյուր”
- Arpitan: “Saumur”
- Asturian: “Saumur”
- Azerbaijani: “Saumur”
- Azerbaijani: “Somür”
- Bambara: “Saumur”
- Basque: “Saumur”
- Bavarian: “Saumur”
- Belarusian: “Самюр”
- Breton: “Saumur”
- Buginese: “Saumur”
- Bulgarian: “Сомюр”
- Cajun French: “Saumur”
- Catalan: “Saumur”
- Cebuano: “Saumur”
- Chechen: “СомуьгӀ”
- Chinese: “索米尔”
- Chinese: “索米爾”
- Corsican: “Saumur”
- Croatian: “Saumur”
- Czech: “Saumur”
- Dagbani: “Saumur”
- Danish: “Saumur”
- Dimli (individual language): “Saumur”
- Dutch: “Saumur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سومور”
- Esperanto: “Saumur”
- Estonian: “Saumur”
- Faroese: “Saumur”
- Finnish: “Saumur”
- French: “Saumur”
- Friulian: “Saumur”
- Galician: “Saumur”
- German: “Saumur”
- Greek: “Σωμύρ”
- Hebrew: “סומיר”
- Hungarian: “Saumur”
- Icelandic: “Saumur”
- Ido: “Saumur”
- Indonesian: “Saumur”
- Interlingua: “Saumur”
- Interlingue: “Saumur”
- Irish: “Saumur”
- Italian: “Salmuro”
- Italian: “Saumur”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Saumur”
- Japanese: “ソミュール”
- Jèrriais: “Saumur”
- Kabyle: “Saumur”
- Kalaallisut: “Saumur”
- Kongo: “Saumur”
- Korean: “소뮈르”
- Kurdish: “Saumur”
- Ladin: “Saumur”
- Latin: “Salmurium”
- Latvian: “Somīra”
- Ligurian: “Saumur”
- Limburgan: “Saumur”
- Lithuanian: “Saumur”
- Low German: “Saumur”
- Luxembourgish: “Saumur”
- Macedonian: “Сомир”
- Mainfränkisch: “Saumur”
- Malagasy: “Saumur”
- Malay: “Saumur”
- Mazanderani: “سومور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saumur”
- Minangkabau: “Saumur”
- Neapolitan: “Saumur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saumur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saumur”
- Norwegian: “Saumur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saumur”
- Papiamento: “Saumur”
- Persian: “سومور”
- Picard: “Saumur”
- Piemontese: “Saumur”
- Polish: “Saumur”
- Portuguese: “Saumur”
- Prussian: “Saumur”
- Romagnol: “Saumur”
- Romanian: “Saumur”
- Romansh: “Saumur”
- Russian: “Сомюр”
- Sardinian: “Saumur”
- Scots: “Saumur”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Saumur”
- Serbian: “Saumur”
- Serbian: “Сомир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saumur”
- Sicilian: “Saumur”
- Silesian: “Saumur”
- Slovak: “Saumur”
- Slovenian: “Saumur”
- South Azerbaijani: “سومور”
- Spanish: “Saumur”
- Swahili: “Saumur”
- Swedish: “Saumur”
- Swiss German: “Saumur”
- Tatar: “Сомюр”
- Turkish: “Saumur”
- Ukrainian: “Сомюр”
- Urdu: “سومور”
- Uzbek: “Saumur”
- Venetian: “Saumur”
- Vietnamese: “Saumur”
- Vlaams: “Saumur”
- Volapük: “Saumur”
- Walloon: “Saumur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saumur”
- Welsh: “Saumur”
- Wolof: “Saumur”
- Wu Chinese: “索米尔”
- Yue Chinese: “索米爾”
- Zulu: “Saumur”
- “Saumur”
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