Orne

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Orne is a rural department in northwestern France known for its pastoral landscapes, horse breeding, and historic towns such as Alençon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Orne canonical 23

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French department
commune of France
administrativeCentre Alençon
area about 6100 square kilometres
borders Calvados
Eure
Eure-et-Loir
Manche
Mayenne
Sarthe
capital Alençon
characteristic rural
coatOfArmsDescription three lions passant guardant
contains Alençon
Argentan
Bagnoles de l’Orne Normandie
Domfront en Poiraie
Flers
Aigle
surface form: L’Aigle

Mortagne-au-Perche
Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine
Perche Regional Nature Park
country France
countrySubdivisionType department
created 1790
createdDuring French Revolution
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
cattle breeding
dairy farming
forestry
horse breeding
rural tourism
historicRegion Normandy
inseeCode 61
isoCode FR-61
knownFor Norman bocage countryside
historic towns
horse breeding
pastoral landscapes
language French
locatedIn Armorican Massif
surface form: Normandy-Maine massif area

Orne self-linksurface differs
Western France
surface form: northwestern France
namedAfter River Orne
partOf region of Normandy
population approximately 280000
populationDensity sparsely populated
timeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
vehicleRegistrationCode 61

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Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eure sourceDepartment Orne
Calvados borders Orne
Orne locatedIn Orne self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Alençon
Eure department borders Orne
subject surface form: Eure
Sarthe borders Orne
Sarthe department borders Orne
subject surface form: Sarthe
Eure-et-Loir borders Orne
Jœuf locatedOnRiver Orne
Chambois department Orne
department of Mayenne borderedBy Orne
subject surface form: Mayenne (department)