Nantes facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Nantes
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The Dukes Castle.
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
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65.19 km2 (25.17 sq mi) | |
| Population
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291,604 | |
| • Density | 4,473.1/km2 (11,585.4/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) | |
| INSEE/Postal code |
44109 /44000
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| Elevation | 2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft) | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||
Nantes is a city in France, the prefecture of the Pays de la Loire region and the Loire-Atlantique department, on the Atlantic Ocean. Before 1941, Nantes was part of Brittany. The Gallo and Breton languages are spoken in the city. Jules Verne was a famous writer from Nantes.
Nantes has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
Education
- Audencia Nantes School of Management
- École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies
- Institut supérieur européen de gestion group
- E-Artsup
- Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action
Twin towns
Nantes has town twinning and cooperation agreements with:
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Friendship relations
The city has friendship relations with:
Guinea, since 1992.
St. Martinville, Louisiana, U.S., since 1993.
Jericho, West Bank, since 2001.
Desdunes and Petionville, Haiti, since 2005.
Nantes, Quebec, Canada, since 2009.
Images for kids
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The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.
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Section of the Roman city wall
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Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century
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Typical 18th-century façades in Nantes
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Cours Cambronne, a terrace developed at the end of the 18th century
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The port of Nantes in 1912, with the demolished transporter bridge in the distance
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Central Nantes in the first half of the 20th century. Waterways filled in from 1926 to 1946 are in brown, and buildings destroyed by American air raids in 1943 are in red.
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Nantes as seen by SPOT in 2004
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The Erdre (a tributary of the Loire), with the Brittany Tower in the background
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Boulevard de Launay, west of the city centre
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Port-Boyer and the Erdre
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A 19th-century greenhouse in the Jardin des Plantes
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The arms of the dukes of Brittany in the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany
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Detail of the spire of St Nicolas Basilica
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Beghin-Say sugar refinery
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The Euronantes business district
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Main gate of the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany
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Belfry of Sainte-Croix Church
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Place Foch, with its Louis XVI column
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The Passage Pommeraye, a shopping aracade.
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Reliquary of Anne of Brittany in the Dobrée Museum
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The Graslin Theatre, opened in 1788
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Main hall at the Machines of the Isle of Nantes
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J. M. W. Turner's Nantes from the Ile Feydeau (1829–30)
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1897 advertisement for the LU Petit-Beurre
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The Château du Tertre on the university campus
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The Stade de la Beaujoire
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Tram on a grassed track
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A river bus and Nantes' iconic yellow crane
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Jules Verne, born in Nantes in 1828
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See also
In Spanish: Nantes para niños
