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Poitou-Charentes

former administrative region of France
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Summary

Poitou-Charentes is a region of France[1]. Poitou-Charentes draws 1,627 Wikipedia views per month (region of france category, ranking #21 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: France[3], metropolitan France[4]
  • Country: France[5]
  • Instance of: historical region[6]
  • Capital: Poitiers[7]
  • Shares border with: Pays de la Loire[8], Centre-Val de Loire[9], Limousin[10], Aquitaine[11]
  • Named after: Poitou[12], Charente (Landschaft)[13]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Charente[14], Charente-Maritime[15], Deux-Sèvres[16], Vienne[17]
  • Executive body: Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes[18]
  • Commons category: Poitou-Charentes[19]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[20], UTC+02:00[21]
  • Archives at: Q62331065[22]
  • Inception: June 4, 1960[23]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: December 31, 2015[24]
  • Start time: July 9, 1972[25]
  • End time: January 1, 2016[26]
  • Official website: http://www.poitou-charentes.fr[27]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Poitou-Charentes[28]
  • Commons gallery: Poitou-Charentes[29]
  • Population: 1,789,779[30]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Poitou-Charentes[31]
  • Replaced by: Nouvelle-Aquitaine[32]
  • Official name: Poitou-Charentes[33]
  • Native label: Peitau-Charantas[34]
  • Area: 25,809 km²[35]
  • Geography of topic: geography of Poitou-Charentes[36]

Why It Matters

Poitou-Charentes has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Poitou-Charentes is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Related Entities

France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Décret du 2 juin 1960 portant harmonisation des circonscriptions administratives. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . insee.fr. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Décret du 2 juin 1960 portant harmonisation des circonscriptions administratives. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 169296
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 169296"
  2. 17w ago · Albgr03 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36652|batch #36652]]: Remove redundant P421, they are available at a higher administrative level"
  3. 20w ago · Watmildon · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaced by → —
    Flag → Q12143655
    Language used → Occitan
    Executive body → Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes
    + 37 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag: Vlag van Poitou-Charentes, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1780204037131"
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