Eight French Places from Roubaix to the Cité de Carcassonne in Order of Recorded Latitude, North to South

Roubaix has a recorded latitude of 50.69 north, the most northerly of the eight. The entity page describes it as a city in northern France, in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border, a historically mono-industrial commune in the Nord department that grew rapidly in the nineteenth century on its textile industries.

Tremblay-en-France has a recorded latitude of 48.956111 north. The entity page places it in the northeastern outer suburbs of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of the Ile-de-France region, and states that more than a quarter of Charles de Gaulle Airport, including terminals 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D, lies within the commune, which also hosts the headquarters of Air France.

Nanterre has a recorded latitude of 48.890556 north. The entity page describes it as the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, with part of the La Defense business district in its eastern section and the Paris West University Nanterre La Defense among the largest universities in the Paris region.

Saumur has a recorded latitude of 47.259167 north. The entity page places it in the Maine-et-Loire department of the Pays de la Loire region in western France, between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and notes that its chateau dates to the tenth century and that the town is the seat of the national equestrian school, the Cadre Noir.

Poitiers has a recorded latitude of 46.581111 north. The entity page describes it as a university city on the river Clain in west-central France, the capital of the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the historical center of the former province of Poitou, popularly known as the Ville aux cent clochers, or city of a hundred bell towers.

Avignon has a recorded latitude of 43.948611 north. The entity page describes it as the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of southern France, located on the left bank of the Rhone, with about 16,000 residents living within the medieval walls of its ancient town centre.

Entremont has a recorded latitude of 43.552222 north. The entity page describes an ancient hilltop settlement on the Puyricard plateau three kilometers from Aix-en-Provence, the fortified capital of the Celtic-Ligurian Salyes confederation, captured and abandoned by Rome in 123 BC, with excavated pre-Roman stone sculpture now held in the Musee Granet.

The Cité de Carcassonne has a recorded latitude of 43.206439 north, the most southerly of the eight. The entity page describes a fortified medieval citadel above the Aude River in the Aude department of southern France, with a double ring of walls studded with 52 towers, restored in the nineteenth century under Eugene Viollet-le-Duc and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.