North
Arrondissement of Dunkirk
Gravelines

Gravelines

Gravelines is a commune in the department in Northern . It lies at the mouth of the river 15 miles southwest of Dunkirk. It was formed in the 12th century around the mouth of a canal built to connect with the sea.
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  • Type: Town with 11,200 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Graelines”, “Gravelingen”, “Grevelingen”, and “Port-d’Aa”
  • Postal code: 59820

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belfry of Gravelines and Museum of Drawing and Original Print of Gravelines.

Public building
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public building.

Museum
Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.

Church
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mannequebeurre and Mardyck.

Hamlet
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km south of Gravelines.

Suburb
Photo: Pichasso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former commune in the department in northern France. It is an associated commune with since it joined the latter in January 1980. is situated 9 km northeast of Gravelines.

Gravelines

Latitude
50.98707° or 50° 59′ 14″ north
Longitude
2.12731° or 2° 7′ 38″ east
Population
11,200
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Port-d’Aa”
United Nations Location Code
FR GRV
Open location code
9F24X4PG+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3014816
Wiki­data ID
Q323399
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gravelines” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gravelines”
  • Aragonese: “Gravelines”
  • Arpitan: “Gravelines”
  • Asturian: “Gravelines”
  • Bambara: “Gravelines”
  • Basque: “Gravelines”
  • Bavarian: “Gravelines”
  • Breton: “Gravelines”
  • Breton: “Grevelingen”
  • Cajun French: “Gravelines”
  • Catalan: “Gravelines”
  • Cebuano: “Gravelines”
  • Chechen: “ГгӀавлин”
  • Chinese: “Gravelines”
  • Chinese: “格拉沃利訥”
  • Chinese: “格拉沃利讷”
  • Corsican: “Gravelines”
  • Croatian: “Gravelines”
  • Czech: “Gravelines”
  • Danish: “Gravelines”
  • Dutch: “Gravelines”
  • Dutch: “Grevelingen (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Grevelingen”
  • Dutch: “Grevelingn”
  • Esperanto: “Gravelines”
  • Esperanto: “Grevelingen”
  • Esperanto: “Grevelingn”
  • Estonian: “Gravelines”
  • Faroese: “Gravelines”
  • Finnish: “Gravelines”
  • French: “Gravelines”
  • French: “Grevelingen”
  • French: “Grevelingn”
  • French: “Port-d’Aa”
  • Friulian: “Gravelines”
  • Galician: “Gravelines”
  • German: “Gravelines”
  • German: “Grevelingen”
  • German: “Grevelingn”
  • Greek: “Γκραβελίν”
  • Hebrew: “גרוולין”
  • Hungarian: “Gravelines”
  • Icelandic: “Gravelines”
  • Ido: “Gravelines”
  • Indonesian: “Gravelines”
  • Interlingua: “Gravelines”
  • Interlingue: “Gravelines”
  • Irish: “Gravelines”
  • Italian: “Gravelines”
  • Italian: “Grevelingen”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gravelines”
  • Japanese: “グラヴリーヌ”
  • Japanese: “グラブリーヌ”
  • Kabyle: “Gravelines”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gravelines”
  • Kazakh: “Gravelines”
  • Kazakh: “Gravlïn”
  • Kazakh: “Гравлин”
  • Kazakh: “گراۆلىين”
  • Kongo: “Gravelines”
  • Korean: “그라블린”
  • Kurdish: “Gravelines”
  • Ladin: “Gravelines”
  • Latin: “Gravelina”
  • Latvian: “Gravelines”
  • Ligurian: “Gravelines”
  • Limburgan: “Gravelines”
  • Lithuanian: “Gravelinas”
  • Low German: “Gravelines”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gravelines”
  • Macedonian: “Гравлин”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Gravelines”
  • Malagasy: “Gravelines”
  • Malay: “Gravelines”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gravelines”
  • Minangkabau: “Gravelines”
  • Narom: “Gravelines”
  • Neapolitan: “Gravelines”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gravelines”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gravelines”
  • Norwegian: “Gravelines”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gravelines”
  • Papiamento: “Gravelines”
  • Persian: “گراولین”
  • Picard: “Gravelines”
  • Piemontese: “Gravelines”
  • Polish: “Gravelines”
  • Portuguese: “Gravelines”
  • Portuguese: “Grevelingen”
  • Prussian: “Gravelines”
  • Romagnol: “Gravelines”
  • Romanian: “Gravelines”
  • Romansh: “Gravelines”
  • Russian: “Гравелин”
  • Russian: “Гравлин”
  • Sardinian: “Gravelines”
  • Scots: “Gravelines”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gravelines”
  • Serbian: “Gravelines”
  • Sicilian: “Gravelines”
  • Slovak: “Gravelines”
  • Spanish: “Gravelinas”
  • Spanish: “Gravelines”
  • Spanish: “Grevelingen”
  • Swahili: “Gravelines”
  • Swedish: “Gravelines”
  • Swiss German: “Gravelines”
  • Tatar: “Гравлин”
  • Turkish: “Gravelines”
  • Ukrainian: “Гравлін”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґравлін”
  • Venetian: “Gravelines”
  • Vietnamese: “Gravelines”
  • Vlaams: “Gravelines”
  • Vlaams: “Greveliengn”
  • Vlaams: “Grevelingen”
  • Vlaams: “Grevelingn”
  • Volapük: “Gravelines”
  • Walloon: “Gravelines”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gravelines”
  • Welsh: “Gravelines”
  • Wolof: “Gravelines”
  • Zulu: “Gravelines”
  • “Gravelines”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Trésorerie de Gravelines and Office de Tourisme de Gravelines.

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