Charente
French department
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Summary
Charente is a department of France[1]. Charente draws 2,827 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #30 of 147).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nouvelle-Aquitaine[3]
- Country: France[4]
- Head of government: Michel Boutant[5]
- Capital: Angoulême[6]
- Shares border with: Charente-Maritime[7], Deux-Sèvres[8], Vienne[9], Haute-Vienne[10], Dordogne[11]
- Named after: Charente[12]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity: Arrondissement of Angoulême[13], arrondissement of Cognac[14], arrondissement of Confolens[15], Courbillac[16], Soyaux[17]
- Commons category: Charente[18]
- Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[19], UTC+02:00[20]
- Archives at: Archives départementales de la Charente[21]
- Inception: March 4, 1790[22]
- Highest point: Rocher aux Oiseaux[23]
- Significant event: administrative tutelage[24]
- Official website: https://www.lacharente.fr/[25]
- Topic's main category: Category:Charente[26]
- Commons gallery: Charente[27]
- Population: 353,613[28], 352,335[29], 351,778[30], 352,015[31], 351,718[32], 350,867[33], 351,603[34], 352,683[35]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Charente[36]
- Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[37]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[38], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[39], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[40]
- Official name: Charente[41]
- List of monuments: list of historical monuments in Charente[42]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in Charente[43]
- Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Charente[44]
- Native label: Charente[45]
Why It Matters
Charente has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Charente is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]