Pas-de-Calais
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Guînes

Guînes

Guînes is a commune in the northern French department of . Historically, it was spelt Guisnes. On 7 January 1785, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a French pioneer in hydrogen-balloon flight, completed the first aerial crossing of the , landing in the woods south of Guînes, where a memorial column stands today.
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  • Type: Village with 5,550 residents
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Also known as: “Guînes-en-Calaisis”
  • Postal code: 62340

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens de Guînes and Guines Communal Cemetery.

Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a church.

Cemetery
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.

Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fiennes and Pont d’Ardres.

Village
Photo: Floflo62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in the region of France. is situated 5 km southwest of Guînes.

Hamlet
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km east of Guînes.

Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a commune in the department in the region of . is situated 8 km southeast of Guînes.

Guînes

Latitude
50.86909° or 50° 52′ 9″ north
Longitude
1.87044° or 1° 52′ 14″ east
Population
5,550
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR UNS
Open location code
9F23VV9C+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26697095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3014224
Wiki­data ID
Q325999
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Guînes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guînes”
  • Arabic: “جوينيس”
  • Arabic: “غين”
  • Aragonese: “Guînes”
  • Arpitan: “Guînes”
  • Asturian: “Guînes”
  • Bambara: “Guînes”
  • Basque: “Guînes”
  • Bavarian: “Guînes”
  • Breton: “Guînes”
  • Cajun French: “Guînes”
  • Catalan: “Guînes”
  • Cebuano: “Guînes”
  • Chechen: “Гуьин”
  • Chinese: “Guînes”
  • Chinese: “吉訥”
  • Chinese: “吉讷”
  • Corsican: “Guînes”
  • Croatian: “Guînes”
  • Czech: “Guînes”
  • Danish: “Guînes”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guînes”
  • Dutch: “Giezene”
  • Dutch: “Guines (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Guines”
  • Dutch: “Guînes”
  • Dutch: “Guisnes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوينيس”
  • Esperanto: “Guînes”
  • Estonian: “Guînes”
  • Faroese: “Guînes”
  • Finnish: “Guînes”
  • French: “Guînes”
  • Friulian: “Guînes”
  • Galician: “Guînes”
  • German: “Guines”
  • German: “Guînes”
  • Greek: “Γκιν”
  • Hungarian: “Guînes”
  • Icelandic: “Guînes”
  • Ido: “Guînes”
  • Indonesian: “Guînes”
  • Interlingua: “Guînes”
  • Interlingue: “Guînes”
  • Irish: “Guînes”
  • Italian: “Guînes”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guînes”
  • Japanese: “ギーヌ”
  • Japanese: “ギネ (フランス)”
  • Kabyle: “Guînes”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guînes”
  • Kazakh: “Guînes”
  • Kazakh: “Gyuïn”
  • Kazakh: “Гюин”
  • Kazakh: “گيۋىين”
  • Kongo: “Guînes”
  • Kurdish: “Guînes”
  • Ladin: “Guînes”
  • Latin: “Guînes”
  • Latvian: “Guînes”
  • Ligurian: “Guînes”
  • Limburgan: “Guînes”
  • Lithuanian: “Guînes”
  • Low German: “Guînes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guînes”
  • Macedonian: “Гин”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Guînes”
  • Malagasy: “Guînes”
  • Malay: “Guînes”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guînes”
  • Minangkabau: “Guînes”
  • Narom: “Guînes”
  • Neapolitan: “Guînes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guînes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guînes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guînes”
  • Papiamento: “Guînes”
  • Persian: “گین”
  • Picard: “Guinne”
  • Piemontese: “Guînes”
  • Polish: “Guînes”
  • Portuguese: “Guînes”
  • Prussian: “Guînes”
  • Romagnol: “Guînes”
  • Romanian: “Guînes”
  • Romansh: “Guînes”
  • Russian: “Гин”
  • Sardinian: “Guînes”
  • Scots: “Guînes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guînes”
  • Serbian: “Gin”
  • Serbian: “Guînes”
  • Serbian: “Гин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guînes”
  • Sicilian: “Guînes”
  • Slovak: “Guînes”
  • Spanish: “Guines”
  • Spanish: “Guînes”
  • Swahili: “Guînes”
  • Swedish: “Guînes”
  • Swiss German: “Guînes”
  • Tatar: “Гюин”
  • Turkish: “Guînes”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґін”
  • Ukrainian: “Гюїн”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґюїн”
  • Venetian: “Guînes”
  • Vietnamese: “Guînes”
  • Vlaams: “Guînes”
  • Volapük: “Guînes”
  • Walloon: “Guînes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guînes”
  • Welsh: “Guînes”
  • Wolof: “Guînes”
  • Zulu: “Guînes”
  • “Guînes”

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