Editing Charente (section)

{{Short description|Department of France}}
{{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Charente (département)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox settlement
<!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions -->| name                     = Charente
| native_name              = ''Chérente''&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>([[Saintongeais]])</small><br>{{native name|oc|Charanta}}
| native_name_lang         = <!-- ISO 639-2 code e.g. "fr" for French. If more than one, use {{lang}} instead -->
| type                     = [[Departments of France|Department of France]]
| image_skyline            = Ang prefect.JPG
| image_alt                = 
| image_caption            = [[Prefectures in France|Prefecture]] building of the Charente department, in [[Angoulême]]
| image_flag               = Flag of Charente.svg
| flag_alt                 = 
| image_shield             = Blason département fr Charente.svg
| shield_alt               = 
| nickname                 = 
| motto                    = 
| image_map                = Charente-Position.svg
| map_alt                  = 
| map_caption              = Location of Charente in France
| pushpin_map              = 
| pushpin_label_position   = 
| pushpin_map_alt          = 
| pushpin_map_caption      = 
| coordinates              = {{Coord|45|50|N|0|20|E|region:FR-16_type:adm2nd_scale:2000000|display=inline,title}}
| coor_pinpoint            = 
| coordinates_footnotes    = 
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = France
| subdivision_type1        = [[Regions of France|Region]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]
| established_title        = 
| established_date         = 
| founder                  = 
| seat_type                = [[Prefectures in France|Prefecture]]
| seat                     = [[Angoulême]]
| parts_type               = [[Subprefectures in France|Subprefectures]]
| parts_style              = para
| p1                       = [[Cognac, France|Cognac]]<br>[[Confolens]]
| government_footnotes     = 
| leader_party             = [[Miscellaneous left|DVG]]
| leader_title             = [[President of the Departmental Council]]
| leader_name              = Philippe Bouty<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les conseillers départementaux|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/601ef073-d986-4582-8e1a-ed14dc857fba|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=4 May 2022|language=fr}}</ref>
| unit_pref                = Metric<!-- or US or UK -->
| area_magnitude           = 
| area_footnotes           = {{ref|area|1}}
| area_total_km2           = 5956
| area_note                = 
| elevation_footnotes      = 
| elevation_m              = 
| elevation_min_m          = 
| elevation_max_m          = 
| population_total         = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
| population_as_of         = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
| population_footnotes     = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes2}}
| population_rank          = [[List of French departments by population|68th]]
| population_density_km2   = 59
| population_demonym       = 
| population_note          = 
| blank_name_sec1          = [[Departments of France|Department number]]
| blank_info_sec1          = 16
| blank_name_sec2          = [[Arrondissements of France|Arrondissements]]
| blank_info_sec2          = [[arrondissements of the Charente department|3]]
| blank1_name_sec2         = [[Cantons in France|Cantons]]
| blank1_info_sec2         = [[cantons of the Charente department|19]]
| blank2_name_sec2         = [[Communes in France|Communes]]
| blank2_info_sec2         = [[communes of the Charente department|363]]
| timezone1                = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset1              = +1
| timezone1_DST            = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type         = 
| postal_code              = Angoulême has the postal code of 16000
| area_code_type           = 
| area_code                = 
| iso_code                 = FR-16
| website                  = 
| footnotes                = {{note|area|1}} French Land Register data, which exclude [[estuary|estuaries]], and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>
}}

'''Charente''' ({{IPA|fr|ʃaʁɑ̃t|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Charente.wav}}; [[Saintongese dialect|Saintongese]]: ''Chérente''; {{langx|oc|Charanta}} {{IPA|oc|tʃaˈɾantɔ|}}) is a [[departments of France|department]] in the [[administrative regions of France|administrative region]] of [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]], southwestern [[France]]. It is named after the river [[Charente (river)|Charente]], the most important and longest river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, [[Angoulême]] and [[Cognac, France|Cognac]], are sited. In 2019, it had a population of 352,015.<ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep16.pdf Populations légales 2019: 16 Charente], INSEE</ref>