''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in
Gascon, means
moorland or
heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...
.
''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English
plain
In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands ...
(and
plane
Plane(s) most often refers to:
* Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft
* Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface
Plane or planes may also refer to:
Biology
* Plane (tree) or ''Platanus'', wetland native plant
* ''Planes' ...
), the Spanish word ''
llanos'' and the Italian word ''
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
''.
Places
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Landes (department)
Landes (; oc, label= Gascon and Occitan, Lanas ; eu, Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, ...
, a department of France
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Landes forest
The Landes forest (; La forêt des Landes in French) in the Landes de Gascogne (las Lanas de Gasconha in the Gascon language), in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine, is the largest man-made woodland ...
or
Landes of Gascony, a natural region in the southwest of France
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Landes, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département
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Landes, West Virginia, United States
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Landes-sur-Ajon
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Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes, Brittany
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Rion-des-Landes
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Centre d'Essais des Landes, launch site for testing military rockets
Other uses
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Landes (surname)
See also
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Cantons of the Landes department
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Arrondissements of the Landes department
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Communes of the Landes department
The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Landes department of France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories i ...
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Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes (disambiguation)
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