Vendée department

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The Vendée department is an administrative region on France’s Atlantic coast, historically part of Poitou and known for its rural landscapes, coastline, and role in the counter-revolutionary uprisings of the French Revolution.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Vendée department canonical 9
department of Vendée 2

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French department
administrativeCenter La Roche-sur-Yon
borders Atlantic Ocean
Charente-Maritime
Deux-Sèvres
Loire-Atlantique
Maine-et-Loire
country France
createdAsDepartment French Revolution
dateCreated 1790
departmentNumber 85
economicActivity agriculture
fishing
tourism
hasAttraction Puy du Fou historical theme park
hasCoastalResort La Tranche-sur-Mer
Les Sables-d’Olonne
Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
Saint-Jean-de-Monts
hasIsland Île de Noirmoutier
Île d’Yeu
hasLandscape bocage hedgerow fields
marais poitevin marshes
hasMajorTown Challans
Fontenay-le-Comte
La Roche-sur-Yon
Les Sables-d’Olonne
Luçon
historicalDialect Poitevin-Saintongeais
historicalEvent Vendée uprising
surface form: War in the Vendée
historicalRegion Poitou
knownFor Atlantic coastline
beach tourism
bocage countryside
counter-revolutionary uprisings during the French Revolution
marshlands
rural landscapes
language French
locatedIn Pays de la Loire
surface form: Pays de la Loire region
locatedOn Atlantic coast of France
namedAfter Vendée River
partOf French Revolution internal conflicts
Metropolitan France
prefecture La Roche-sur-Yon
regionType predominantly rural
subprefecture Fontenay-le-Comte
Les Sables-d’Olonne
timeZone Central European Time
timeZoneDST Central European Summer Time

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

Poitou modernTerritoryIncludes Vendée department
Île d’Yeu locatedIn Vendée department
Port-Joinville administrativeDivision Vendée department
this entity surface form: department of Vendée
Mouilleron-en-Pareds locatedIn Vendée department
Mouilleron-en-Pareds partOf Vendée department
La Roche-sur-Yon locatedIn Vendée department
La Roche-sur-Yon isPrefectureOf Vendée department
Sèvre Nantaise flowsThrough Vendée department
Port-Joinville harbor locatedIn Vendée department
Saint-Sauveur village locatedIn Vendée department
Diocese of Luçon territoryCorrespondsRoughlyTo Vendée department
this entity surface form: department of Vendée