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
- Also known as: “Slag van Vimy” and “ヴィミー”
- Postal code: 62580
Places of Interest
Highlights: Église Saint-Martin de Vimy and Commonwealth plot of Vimy Communal Cemetery.
Église Saint-Martin de Vimy
Church
Photo: Maitre So, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avion and Méricourt.
Avion
Town
Photo: Maitre So, Public domain.Méricourt
Town
Liévin
Town
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.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″ north
Longitude
2.81079° or 2° 48′ 39″ east
Population
4,310
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FR VMY
Open location code
9F249RF6+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Arpitan: “Vimy”
- Asturian: “Vimy”
- Bambara: “Vimy”
- Basque: “Vimy”
- Bavarian: “Vimy”
- Breton: “Vimy”
- Cajun French: “Vimy”
- Catalan: “Vimy”
- Cebuano: “Vimy”
- Chechen: “Вими”
- Chinese: “維米”
- Chinese: “维米”
- Corsican: “Vimy”
- Croatian: “Vimy”
- Czech: “Vimy”
- Danish: “Vimy”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vimy”
- Dutch: “Vimy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيمى”
- Esperanto: “Vimy”
- Estonian: “Vimy”
- Faroese: “Vimy”
- Finnish: “Vimy”
- French: “Vimy”
- Friulian: “Vimy”
- Galician: “Vimy”
- German: “Vimy”
- Greek: “Βιμί”
- Hungarian: “Vimy”
- Icelandic: “Vimy”
- Ido: “Vimy”
- Indonesian: “Vimy”
- Interlingua: “Vimy”
- Interlingue: “Vimy”
- Irish: “Vimy”
- Italian: “Vimy”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vimy”
- Japanese: “ヴィミ”
- Jèrriais: “Vimy”
- Kabyle: “Vimy”
- Kalaallisut: “Vimy”
- Kazakh: “Vïmï”
- Kazakh: “Вими”
- Kazakh: “ۆىيمىي”
- Kongo: “Vimy”
- Kurdish: “Vimy”
- Ladin: “Vimy”
- Latin: “Vimy”
- Latvian: “Vimy”
- Ligurian: “Vimy”
- Limburgan: “Vimy”
- Lithuanian: “Vimy”
- Low German: “Vimy”
- Luxembourgish: “Vimy”
- Mainfränkisch: “Vimy”
- Malagasy: “Vimy”
- Malay: “Vimy”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vimy”
- Minangkabau: “Vimy”
- Neapolitan: “Vimy”
- 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”
- Sicilian: “Vimy”
- Slovak: “Vimy”
- Slovenian: “Vimy”
- Spanish: “Vimy”
- Swahili: “Vimy”
- Swedish: “Vimy”
- Swiss German: “Vimy”
- Tatar: “Вими”
- Turkish: “Vimy”
- Ukrainian: “Вімі”
- Venetian: “Vimy”
- Vietnamese: “Vimy”
- Vlaams: “Vimy”
- Volapük: “Vimy”
- Walloon: “Vimy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vimy”
- Welsh: “Vimy”
- Wolof: “Vimy”
- Zulu: “Vimy”
- “Vimy”
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Places to explore: Entre les Moulins and Le Petit Vimy.
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Highlights: Mairie de Vimy and VIMY.
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