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Arrondissement of Dunkirk
Méteren

Méteren

Méteren is a commune in the department in northern . In October 1914, the British army passed through Meteren during the Race to the Sea, and the future Field-Marshal Montgomery of Alamein received a DSO at the rank of Lieutenant.
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  • Type: Village with 2,260 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Meteren” and “Metern”
  • Postal code: 59270

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Méteren and Meteren Military Cemetery.

Church
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is a church.

Cemetery
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Cemetery
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is a cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bailleul and Dranouter.

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern . It is located in French Flanders, 3 km from the border and 26 km northwest of . is situated 3 km east of Méteren.

Village
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is a village and a deelgemeente in the municipality of in , . was an independent municipality before the 1977 local government reforms. is situated 7 km northeast of Méteren.

Village
is a small in the province of , and a part of the municipality of . For the major part of World War I, the city was controlled by the Allied Powers. is situated 7 km northeast of Méteren.

Méteren

Latitude
50.74091° or 50° 44′ 27″ north
Longitude
2.69117° or 2° 41′ 28″ east
Population
2,260
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
9F24PMRR+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26695225
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2994168
Wiki­data ID
Q1162988
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Méteren” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Méteren”
  • Aragonese: “Méteren”
  • Arpitan: “Méteren”
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  • Bavarian: “Méteren”
  • Breton: “Meteren”
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  • Cajun French: “Méteren”
  • Catalan: “Meteren”
  • Catalan: “Méteren”
  • Catalan: “Metern”
  • Cebuano: “Méteren”
  • Chechen: “МетегӀан”
  • Chinese: “Méteren”
  • Chinese: “梅泰朗”
  • Chinese: “梅特伦”
  • Chinese: “梅特倫”
  • Corsican: “Méteren”
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  • Czech: “Méteren”
  • Danish: “Méteren”
  • Dutch: “Meteren”
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  • Dutch: “Metern”
  • Esperanto: “Meteren”
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  • Estonian: “Méteren”
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  • Finnish: “Méteren”
  • French: “Meteren”
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  • French: “Metern”
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  • Galician: “Méteren”
  • German: “Meteren”
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  • German: “Metern”
  • Greek: “Μετρέν”
  • Hungarian: “Meteren”
  • Hungarian: “Méteren”
  • Hungarian: “Metern”
  • Icelandic: “Méteren”
  • Ido: “Méteren”
  • Indonesian: “Méteren”
  • Interlingua: “Méteren”
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  • Irish: “Méteren”
  • Italian: “Meteren”
  • Italian: “Méteren”
  • Italian: “Metern”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Méteren”
  • Kabyle: “Méteren”
  • Kalaallisut: “Méteren”
  • Kazakh: “Meteran”
  • Kazakh: “Méteren”
  • Kazakh: “Метеран”
  • Kazakh: “مەتەران”
  • Kongo: “Méteren”
  • Kurdish: “Méteren”
  • Ladin: “Méteren”
  • Ladin: “Météren”
  • Latin: “Méteren”
  • Latvian: “Meteren”
  • Latvian: “Méteren”
  • Latvian: “Metern”
  • Ligurian: “Méteren”
  • Limburgan: “Méteren”
  • Lithuanian: “Meteren”
  • Lithuanian: “Méteren”
  • Lithuanian: “Metern”
  • Low German: “Meteren”
  • Low German: “Méteren”
  • Low German: “Metern”
  • Luxembourgish: “Méteren”
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  • Narom: “Méteren”
  • Neapolitan: “Méteren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Méteren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Méteren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Méteren”
  • Papiamento: “Méteren”
  • Picard: “Méteren”
  • Piemontese: “Méteren”
  • Polish: “Meteren”
  • Polish: “Méteren”
  • Polish: “Metern”
  • Portuguese: “Meteren”
  • Portuguese: “Méteren”
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  • Prussian: “Méteren”
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  • Romanian: “Meteren”
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  • Romanian: “Metern”
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  • Scots: “Méteren”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Méteren”
  • Serbian: “Méteren”
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  • Spanish: “Meteren”
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  • Swedish: “Meteren”
  • Swedish: “Méteren”
  • Swedish: “Metern”
  • Swiss German: “Meteren”
  • Swiss German: “Méteren”
  • Swiss German: “Metern”
  • Turkish: “Méteren”
  • Ukrainian: “Метеран”
  • Venetian: “Méteren”
  • Vietnamese: “Méteren”
  • Vlaams: “Meteren”
  • Vlaams: “Metern”
  • Volapük: “Méteren”
  • Walloon: “Méteren”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Méteren”
  • Welsh: “Méteren”
  • Wolof: “Méteren”
  • Zulu: “Méteren”
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