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| Charente department | |
| Capital | Angoulême |
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| Residents | 351.778 (2018) |
| surface | 5,956 km² |
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Charente is a department in the French region New Aquitaine and has the serial number 36. The department borders on the departments to the north Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, in the east to the départements Haute-Vienne and Dordogne and to the south and west to the department Charente-Maritime.
Topographic map of the department
Regions
The department is divided into the following three arrondissements:
- Arrondissement of Angoulême
- Arrondissement of Cognac
- Arrondissement of Confolens
