Nantes is a city in western France, Loire-Atlantique department and the prefecture capital of the Pays de la Loire Region. Nantes is located on the Loire River, 50 km from the Atlantic coast. Nantes Métropole population is 580,000 inhabitants.
Nantes name derives from its people from pre-Romanian Gauls tribe known as Namnetes, who founded the city in around 70 BC
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