Pont

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Pont (pronounced pohn; French for bridge; also Welsh for bridge, the "t" not silent) is the name or part of the name of several places. It also means 'period' and 'exactly' in Hungarian (where the 't' is pronounced).

France

Pont is the name or part of the name of several communes of France:

• Pont, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or département
• Pont-Bellanger, in the Calvados département
• Pont-d'Ouilly, in the Calvados département
• Pont-Farcy, in the Calvados département
• Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, in the Calvados département
• Pont-l'Évêque, Oise, in the Oise département

Switzerland

• Du Pont, Switzerland, a Swiss hamlet that is part of the commune of L'Abbaye

United Kingdom

England

• Pont, Cornwall
• Pont, County Durham
• the River Pont in Ponteland, Northumberland

Wales

Some examples of towns in Wales that have derived from their use of a bridge:

• Pontarddulais, Swansea, Welsh for "Bridge over the (river) Dulais"
• Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Welsh for "Bridge by the earthen house"

Other uses

• Pont (surname)
• See also Du Pont family
• Graham Laidler, British cartoonist, 'Pont' of Punch magazine

See also

• DuPont, the company
• Dupont (disambiguation)
• PONT, Time zone abbreviation for Ponape Time (Micronesia), UTC+11:00