Vimy
Vimy is a commune in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. Located 3.8 kilometers west of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Canadian soldiers who were killed during the First World War.- Type: Village with 4,310 residents
- Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
- Postal code: 62580
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Martin de Vimy and Commonwealth plot of Vimy Communal Cemetery.
Église Saint-Martin de Vimy
Church
Photo: Maitre So, Public domain.
Église Saint-Martin de Vimy is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avion and Méricourt.
Avion
Town
Photo: Maitre So, Public domain.
Avion is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Avion is situated 4½ km north of Vimy.
Méricourt
Town
Photo: Floflo62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Méricourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 3 miles southeast of Lens The commune is part of the canton of Avion. Méricourt is situated 5 km northeast of Vimy.
Lens
Photo: Dvillafruela, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lens is a city in Hauts-de-France, France. A former industrial city, its wealth was founded on textiles and coal mining. In 2009, the Louvre opened a branch in Lens, called - naturally enough - Louvre-Lens.
Vimy
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Vimy, Arrondissement of Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.37327° or 50° 22′ 24″ northLongitude
2.81079° or 2° 48′ 39″ eastPopulation
4,310Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR VMYOpen location code
9F249RF6+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 26695242OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vimy” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vimy”
- Arabic: “فيمي”
- Aragonese: “Vimy”
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- Catalan: “Vimy”
- Cebuano: “Vimy”
- Chechen: “Вими”
- Chinese: “Vimy”
- Chinese: “維米”
- Chinese: “维米”
- Corsican: “Vimy”
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- Czech: “Vimy”
- Danish: “Vimy”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vimy”
- Dutch: “Vimy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيمى”
- Esperanto: “Vimy”
- Estonian: “Vimy”
- Faroese: “Vimy”
- Finnish: “Vimy”
- French: “Vimy”
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- German: “Vimy”
- Greek: “Βιμί”
- Hungarian: “Vimy”
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- Ido: “Vimy”
- Indonesian: “Vimy”
- Interlingua: “Vimy”
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- Irish: “Vimy”
- Italian: “Vimy”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vimy”
- Japanese: “ヴィミ”
- Japanese: “ヴィミー”
- Kabyle: “Vimy”
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- Kazakh: “Vïmï”
- Kazakh: “Vimy”
- Kazakh: “Вими”
- Kazakh: “ۆىيمىي”
- Kongo: “Vimy”
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- Ladin: “Vimy”
- Latin: “Vimy”
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- Low German: “Vimy”
- Luxembourgish: “Vimy”
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- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vimy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vimy”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vimy”
- Papiamento: “Vimy”
- Persian: “ویمی”
- Picard: “Vermy”
- Piemontese: “Vimy”
- Polish: “Vimy”
- Portuguese: “Vimy”
- Prussian: “Vimy”
- Romagnol: “Vimy”
- Romanian: “Vimy”
- Romansh: “Vimy”
- Russian: “Вими”
- Sardinian: “Vimy”
- Scots: “Vimy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vimy”
- Serbian: “Vimy”
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- Spanish: “Vimy”
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- Swedish: “Vimy”
- Swiss German: “Vimy”
- Tatar: “Вими”
- Turkish: “Vimy”
- Ukrainian: “Вімі”
- Venetian: “Vimy”
- Vietnamese: “Vimy”
- Vlaams: “Slag van Vimy”
- Vlaams: “Vimy”
- Volapük: “Vimy”
- Walloon: “Vimy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vimy”
- Welsh: “Vimy”
- Wolof: “Vimy”
- Zulu: “Vimy”
- “Vimy”
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