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Île de Ré
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island in Charente-Maritime, France
Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Area
- 85 km (33 sq mi)
- Length
- 30 km (19 mi)
- Width
- 5 km (3.1 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 20 m (70 ft)
- Highest point
- Peu des Aumonts
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Charente-Maritime
- Arrondissement
- La Rochelle
- Capital city
- Saint-Martin-de-Ré
- Largest settlement
- La Flotte
- Population
- 17,723 (2012)
- Pop density
- 208.5/km (540/sq mi)
- Ethnic groups
- French people
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Official name
- Île-Républicaine
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Sainte-Marie-de-Ré
- Capital
- Saint-Martin-de-Ré
- Area
- 85.32
- Elevation
- 20
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Location
- Bay of Biscay
- Official website
- www.iledere.com
- Image
- Ré SPOT 1156.jpg
- Width
- 5
- Length
- 26
- Significant event
- Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré
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- located in/on physical feature
- Bay of Biscay
- twinned administrative body
- Philippsburg
- Commons category
- Île de Ré
- topic's main category
- Category:Île de Ré
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Île de Ré ( French pronunciation: [il də ʁe]; variously spelled Rhé or Rhéa; Poitevin: ile de Rét; English: Isle of Ré, /reɪ/ RAY) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. Its highest point has an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet). It is 30 kilometres (19 miles) long and five kilometres (3 miles) wide. The 2.9 km (1.8 mi) Île de Ré bridge, completed in 1988, connects it to La Rochelle on the mainland.
Administration
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Île de Ré” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.