Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement de Calais
Sangatte

Sangatte

Sangatte is a commune in the department on the northern coast of on the . The name is of Flemish origin, meaning hole or gap in the sand.
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  • Type: Village with 4,840 residents
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Postal code: 62231
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Martin de Sangatte and Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Peuplingues.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km south of Sangatte.

Windmill
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is a windmill, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Sangatte.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cap Blanc-Nez and Calais.

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 3½ km southwest of Sangatte.

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is a city of 73,000 people in the region of . It is the closest point on the European mainland to ; lies across the English Channel just 32 km away.

Sangatte

Latitude
50.9458° or 50° 56′ 45″ north
Longitude
1.75371° or 1° 45′ 13″ east
Population
4,840
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR SXG
Open location code
9F23WQW3+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 840876431
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2976217
Wiki­data ID
Q457820
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sangatte” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sangatte”
  • Arabic: “سانجات”
  • Aragonese: “Sangatte”
  • Arpitan: “Sangatte”
  • Asturian: “Sangatte”
  • Bambara: “Sangatte”
  • Basque: “Sangatte”
  • Bavarian: “Sangatte”
  • Breton: “Sangatte”
  • Breton: “Zandgat”
  • Cajun French: “Sangatte”
  • Catalan: “Sangatte”
  • Cebuano: “Sangatte”
  • Chechen: “Сангатт”
  • Chinese: “Sangatte”
  • Chinese: “桑加特”
  • Corsican: “Sangatte”
  • Croatian: “Sangatte”
  • Czech: “Sangatte”
  • Danish: “Sangatte”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sangatte”
  • Dutch: “Sangatte”
  • Dutch: “Zandgate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانجات”
  • Esperanto: “Sangatte”
  • Estonian: “Sangatte”
  • Faroese: “Sangatte”
  • Finnish: “Sangatte”
  • French: “Blériot”
  • French: “Sangate”
  • French: “Sangatte”
  • Friulian: “Sangatte”
  • Galician: “Sangatte”
  • German: “Sangatte”
  • Greek: “Σανγκάτ”
  • Hungarian: “Sangatte”
  • Icelandic: “Sangatte”
  • Ido: “Sangatte”
  • Indonesian: “Sangatte”
  • Interlingua: “Sangatte”
  • Interlingue: “Sangatte”
  • Irish: “Sangatte”
  • Italian: “Sangatte”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sangatte”
  • Japanese: “サンガット”
  • Kabyle: “Sangatte”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sangatte”
  • Kazakh: “Sangatt”
  • Kazakh: “Sangatte”
  • Kazakh: “Сангатт”
  • Kazakh: “سانگاتت”
  • Kongo: “Sangatte”
  • Kurdish: “Sangatte”
  • Ladin: “Sangatte”
  • Latin: “Sangatte”
  • Latvian: “Sangatte”
  • Ligurian: “Sangatte”
  • Limburgan: “Sangatte”
  • Lithuanian: “Sangatte”
  • Low German: “Sangatte”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sangatte”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Sangatte”
  • Malagasy: “Guy Allemand”
  • Malagasy: “Sangatte”
  • Malay: “Sangatte”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sangatte”
  • Minangkabau: “Sangatte”
  • Narom: “Sangatte”
  • Neapolitan: “Sangatte”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sangatte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sangatte”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sangatte”
  • Papiamento: “Sangatte”
  • Picard: “Sangatte”
  • Piemontese: “Sangatte”
  • Polish: “Sangatte”
  • Portuguese: “Sangatte”
  • Prussian: “Sangatte”
  • Romagnol: “Sangatte”
  • Romanian: “Sangatte”
  • Romansh: “Sangatte”
  • Russian: “Сангатт”
  • Sardinian: “Sangatte”
  • Scots: “Sangatte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sangatte”
  • Serbian: “Sangatte”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sangatte”
  • Sicilian: “Sangatte”
  • Slovak: “Sangatte”
  • Spanish: “Sangatte”
  • Sundanese: “Sangatte”
  • Swahili: “Sangatte”
  • Swedish: “Sangatte”
  • Swiss German: “Sangatte”
  • Tatar: “Сангатт”
  • Turkish: “Sangatte”
  • Ukrainian: “Сангатт”
  • Ukrainian: “Санґатт”
  • Venetian: “Sangatte”
  • Vietnamese: “Sangatte”
  • Vlaams: “Sangatte”
  • Volapük: “Sangatte”
  • Walloon: “Sangatte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sangatte”
  • Welsh: “Sangatte”
  • Wolof: “Sangatte”
  • Zulu: “Sangatte”
  • “Sangatte”

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