Charente
French depairtment
Charente (French pronunciation: [ʃa.ʁɑ̃t], Saintongeais: Chérente, Occitan: Charanta) is a depairtment in soothwastren Fraunce, in the Poitou-Charentes region, named efter the Charente River.
Charente | |
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 Prefectur biggin o the Charente depairtment, in Angoulême | |
 Coat airms | |
 Location o Charente in Fraunce | |
| Coordinates: 45°50′N 0°20′E / 45.833°N 0.333°ECoordinates: 45°50′N 0°20′E / 45.833°N 0.333°E | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Poitou-Charentes |
| Prefectur | Angoulême |
| Subprefecturs | Cognac Confolens |
| Govrenment | |
| • President of the General Council | Michel Boutant (PS) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5956 km2 (2,300 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 349,535 |
| • Rank | 67t |
| • Density | 59/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Depairtment nummer | 16 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 19 |
| Communes | 404 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lochs, ponds, an glaciers lairger nor 1 km2 | |