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Saint-Hippolyte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃tipɔlit] ) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Poitou-Charentes), southwestern France.

The canton of Tonnay-Charente is an administrative division of the Charente-Maritime department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Tonnay-Charente. It consists of the following communes:

Tonnay-Charente (French pronunciation: [tɔnɛ ʃaʁɑ̃t]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. In the 18th century, it was the home town of prominent Irish physician Dr. Theobald Jennings and his son, Irish-born French General Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine who fought in the American War of Independence and, more significantly, in the French revolutionary wars with Napoleon I of France. There is a personal portrait of General Kilmaine in the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Tonnay-Charente. Rue Kilmaine, a street in Tonnay-Charente was named in his honour.

Trizay (French pronunciation: [tʁizɛ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

Communauté d'agglomération de Saintes is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Rochefort. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, southwestern France. Created in 2014, its seat is in Rochefort. Its area is 421.4 km2. Its population was 63,480 in 2019, of which 23,584 in Rochefort proper.

Échillais (French pronunciation: [eʃilɛ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

The Conservatoire du Bégonia (1,000 m2) is a botanical garden specializing in begonias. It is located at 1 rue Charles Plumier, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, and open for guided tours several days per week in early spring and late fall; an admission fee is charged.

Loire-les-Marais (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ le maʁɛ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

The Corderie Royale International de la mer is a vast museum complex located in the heart of the maritime Arsenal de Rochefort. The building built in 1666 has been classified as a historic monument since 1967, and currently a candidate for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Since 1986, the part open to visitors has permanent and temporary exhibitions dedicated to the maritime world and the history of the Arsenal de Rochefort.

The Musée national de la Marine in Rochefort is one of the main naval museums of France. Rochefort Naval museum is part of the Musée national de la Marine, which is organised around its main location in Paris, and it antennas in Rochefort, Toulon, Brest and Port-Louis.

The Arsenal de Rochefort was a French naval base and dockyard in the town of Rochefort. It was founded in 1665 and it was closed in 1926. In December 1665 Rochefort was chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a place of "refuge, defense and supply" for the French Navy. Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV's Commissary of Fortifications Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Between 1666 and 1669 the King had the Corderie Royale (then the longest building in Europe) constructed to make cordage for French ships of war. The making of cordage ceased in 1867 and in 1926 the Arsenal de Rochefort was closed.

Rochefort (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʃfɔʁ] ; Occitan: Ròchafòrt), unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʃfɔʁ syʁ mɛʁ]; Occitan: Ròchafòrt de Mar) for disambiguation, is a city and commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, located in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Poitou-Charentes).