Gravelines
Gravelines is a commune in the Nord department in Northern France. It lies at the mouth of the river Aa 15 miles southwest of Dunkirk. It was formed in the 12th century around the mouth of a canal built to connect Saint-Omer with the sea.
- Type: Town with 11,200 residents
- Description: commune in Nord, France
- Also known as: “Graelines”, “Gravelingen”, “Greveliengn”, “Grevelingen (stad)”, “Port-d’Aa”, “Гравелин”, “Ґравлін”, and “グラブリーヌ”
- Postal code: 59820
Places of Interest
Highlights: Belfry of Gravelines and Museum of Drawing and Original Print of Gravelines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mannequebeurre and Mardyck.
Mardyck
Suburb
Gravelines
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Gravelines, Arrondissement of Dunkirk, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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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”
UN/LOCODE
FR GRV
Open location code
9F24X4PG+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gravelines” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gravelines”
- Arabic: “غرافلين”
- Aragonese: “Gravelines”
- Arpitan: “Gravelines”
- Asturian: “Gravelines”
- Bambara: “Gravelines”
- Basque: “Gravelines”
- Bavarian: “Gravelines”
- Breton: “Grevelingen”
- Cajun French: “Gravelines”
- Catalan: “Gravelines”
- Cebuano: “Gravelines”
- Chechen: “ГгӀавлин”
- Chinese: “格拉沃利訥”
- Chinese: “格拉沃利讷”
- Corsican: “Gravelines”
- Croatian: “Gravelines”
- Czech: “Gravelines”
- Danish: “Gravelines”
- Dutch: “Grevelingen”
- Esperanto: “Gravelines”
- Estonian: “Gravelines”
- Faroese: “Gravelines”
- Finnish: “Gravelines”
- French: “Gravelines”
- Friulian: “Gravelines”
- Galician: “Gravelines”
- German: “Gravelines”
- Greek: “Γκραβελίν”
- Hebrew: “גרוולין”
- Hungarian: “Gravelines”
- Icelandic: “Gravelines”
- Ido: “Gravelines”
- Indonesian: “Gravelines”
- Interlingua: “Gravelines”
- Interlingue: “Gravelines”
- Irish: “Gravelines”
- Italian: “Gravelines”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Gravelines”
- Japanese: “グラヴリーヌ”
- Jèrriais: “Gravelines”
- Kabyle: “Gravelines”
- Kalaallisut: “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”
- 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”
- Prussian: “Gravelines”
- Romagnol: “Gravelines”
- Romanian: “Gravelines”
- Romansh: “Gravelines”
- Russian: “Гравлин”
- Sardinian: “Gravelines”
- Scots: “Gravelines”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gravelines”
- Serbian: “Gravelines”
- Sicilian: “Gravelines”
- Slovak: “Gravelines”
- Spanish: “Gravelinas”
- Swahili: “Gravelines”
- Swedish: “Gravelines”
- Swiss German: “Gravelines”
- Tatar: “Гравлин”
- Turkish: “Gravelines”
- Ukrainian: “Гравлін”
- Urdu: “گریولینز”
- Venetian: “Gravelines”
- Vietnamese: “Gravelines”
- Vlaams: “Grevelingn”
- Volapük: “Gravelines”
- Walloon: “Gravelines”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gravelines”
- Welsh: “Gravelines”
- Wolof: “Gravelines”
- Zulu: “Gravelines”
- “Gravelines”
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Places to explore: Le Clair Marais and Les Huttes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Trésorerie de Gravelines and Office de Tourisme de Gravelines.
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