Nantes
Sign in to saveNantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 327,734 in Nantes proper (2023) and a metropolitan area of over 1 million inhabitants (2022). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
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Nantes is France's sixth-largest city, located in western France along the Loire River near the Atlantic coast, with a population of around 328,000 people. Together with the nearby seaport of Saint-Nazaire, it forms a major metropolitan region in northwestern France with over 1 million inhabitants in its wider area.
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Place details
- Locality
- Nantes
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Population
- 325,070
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- Etymology
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- History
- Prehistory and antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Modern era
- French Revolution
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- Postwar
- Geography
- Location
- Hydrology
- Geology
- Climate
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- Parks and environment
- Governance
- Local government
- Heraldry
- Nantes and Brittany
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Cooperation agreements
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- Ethnicity and languages
- Economy
- Architecture
- Culture
- Museums
- Venues
- Events and festivals
- Slavery Memorial
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- Cuisine
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- Nantes Public Transportation statistics
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Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 327,734 in Nantes proper (2023) and a metropolitan area of over 1 million inhabitants (2022). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial.