Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Wissant

Wissant

Wissant is a seaside commune in the department in the Hauts-de-France region of France approximately 18 kilometres north of , 16 kilometres west-southwest of on the coast.
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  • Type: Village with 848 residents
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Postal code: 62179

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Nicolas de Wissant and Église Saint-Martin de Tardinghen.

Church
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is a church.

Church
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
is a church, which is situated 3 km southwest of Wissant.

Nature reserve
Photo: PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Wissant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Audinghen and Cap Blanc-Nez.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region of . is situated 5 km southwest of Wissant.

Locality
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is a cape on the Côte d'Opale, in the département, in northern , culminating at 134 m. The cliffs of chalk are very similar to the white cliffs of Dover on the other side of in . is situated 6 km northeast of Wissant.

Locality
Photo: Milseburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a cape located in , a commune in the département of northern . Part of the Côte d'Opale, it is classified as a protected natural area. is situated 6 km west of Wissant.

Wissant

Latitude
50.88538° or 50° 53′ 7″ north
Longitude
1.6629° or 1° 39′ 46″ east
Population
848
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR WS2
Open location code
9F23VMP7+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369687069
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2967326
Wiki­data ID
Q316447
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wissant” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wissant”
  • Arabic: “ويسانت (باد كاليه)”
  • Arabic: “ويسانت”
  • Aragonese: “Wissant”
  • Arpitan: “Wissant”
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  • Bambara: “Wissant”
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  • Breton: “Wissant”
  • Cajun French: “Wissant”
  • Catalan: “Wissant”
  • Cebuano: “Wissant”
  • Chechen: “Виссан”
  • Chinese: “Wissant”
  • Chinese: “伍依森”
  • Chinese: “維桑”
  • Chinese: “维桑 (加来海峡省)”
  • Chinese: “维桑”
  • Corsican: “Wissant”
  • Croatian: “Wissant”
  • Czech: “Wissant”
  • Danish: “Wissant”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wissant”
  • Dutch: “Wissant”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويسانت”
  • Esperanto: “Wissant”
  • Estonian: “Wissant”
  • Faroese: “Wissant”
  • Finnish: “Wissant”
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  • Galician: “Wissant”
  • German: “Wissant”
  • Greek: “Ουισάν”
  • Hungarian: “Wissant”
  • Icelandic: “Wissant”
  • Ido: “Wissant”
  • Indonesian: “Wissant”
  • Interlingua: “Wissant”
  • Interlingue: “Wissant”
  • Irish: “Wissant”
  • Italian: “Guizzante”
  • Italian: “Wissant”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Wissant”
  • Japanese: “ヴィッサン”
  • Kabyle: “Wissant”
  • Kalaallisut: “Wissant”
  • Kazakh: “Vïssan”
  • Kazakh: “Wissant”
  • Kazakh: “Виссан”
  • Kazakh: “ۆىيسسان”
  • Kongo: “Wissant”
  • Korean: “위상”
  • Kurdish: “Wissant”
  • Ladin: “Wissant”
  • Latin: “Wissant”
  • Latin: “Witsantum”
  • Latvian: “Wissant”
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  • Narom: “Wissant”
  • Neapolitan: “Wissant”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wissant”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wissant”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guissan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wissant”
  • Papiamento: “Wissant”
  • Picard: “Wichin”
  • Piemontese: “Wissant”
  • Polish: “Wissant”
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  • Romanian: “Wissant”
  • Romansh: “Wissant”
  • Russian: “Виссан”
  • Sardinian: “Wissant”
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  • Serbian: “Wissant”
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  • Swedish: “Wissant”
  • Swiss German: “Wissant”
  • Tatar: “Виссан”
  • Turkish: “Wissant”
  • Ukrainian: “Вісан”
  • Ukrainian: “Віссан”
  • Venetian: “Wissant”
  • Vietnamese: “Wissant”
  • Vlaams: “Wissant”
  • Vlaams: “Witzand”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Wissant”
  • Welsh: “Wissant”
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  • Zulu: “Wissant”
  • “Wissant”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wissant”. Photo: Bodoklecksel, CC BY 2.5.