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Arrondissement of Dunkirk
Grande-Synthe

Grande-Synthe

Grande-Synthe is a commune in the Nord department in the Nord-Pas de Calais region in northern . It is the third-largest suburb of the city of and lies adjacent to it on the west.
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  • Type: Town with 20,300 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Groot Sinten” and “Groot-Sinten”
  • Postal code: 59760
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grande-Synthe station and Our Lady of the Fort Church.

Railway stop
Photo: Floflo62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grande-Synthe is a railway station in Grande-Synthe, , .

Church
Photo: Pichasso, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church
Photo: Andrzej O, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Grande-Synthe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort-Mardyck and Petite-Synthe.

Suburb
Photo: Pichasso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former commune in the department in northern . It has been part of the commune of since 9 December 2010. In 2022 it had 3,491 inhabitants.

Suburb
Photo: Pichasso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former commune of the Nord département in northern . The commune of was created in 1877, by its territory being detached from . is situated 2½ km east of Grande-Synthe.

Suburb
Photo: Raptor-kev, Public domain.
is a former commune in the department in northern . Since 9 December 2010, it is part of the commune of . In 2022 it had 20,346 inhabitants. is situated 3 km northeast of Grande-Synthe.

Grande-Synthe

Latitude
51.01348° or 51° 0′ 49″ north
Longitude
2.303° or 2° 18′ 11″ east
Population
20,300
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR GDS
Open location code
9F342873+95
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3015160
Wiki­data ID
Q769160
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Grande-Synthe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Arabic: “غراند سينث”
  • Aragonese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Arpitan: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Asturian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Bambara: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Basque: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Bavarian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Belarusian: “Гран-Сынт”
  • Belarusian: “Гранд-Сент”
  • Belarusian: “Гранд-Сінт”
  • Breton: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Cajun French: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Catalan: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Cebuano: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Chechen: “ГгӀанд-Синт”
  • Chinese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Chinese: “大桑特”
  • Chinese: “格朗德桑特”
  • Corsican: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Croatian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Czech: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Czech: “Groot Sinten”
  • Czech: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Danish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Dutch: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Dutch: “Groot Sinten”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جراند سينث”
  • Esperanto: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Esperanto: “Groot Sinten”
  • Esperanto: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Estonian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Faroese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Finnish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • French: “Grande-Synthe”
  • French: “Groot Sinten”
  • French: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Friulian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Galician: “Grande-Synthe”
  • German: “Grande-Synthe”
  • German: “Groot Sinten”
  • German: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Greek: “Γκραντ-Σεντ”
  • Hebrew: “גראנד-סינת’ה”
  • Hungarian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Hungarian: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Icelandic: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Ido: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Indonesian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Interlingua: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Interlingue: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Irish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Italian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Italian: “Groot Sinten”
  • Italian: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Japanese: “グランド＝シント”
  • Kabyle: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Kalaallisut: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Kazakh: “Гранд-Синт”
  • Kongo: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Korean: “그랑드생트”
  • Kurdish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Ladin: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Latin: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Latvian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Ligurian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Limburgan: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Lithuanian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Low German: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Macedonian: “Гранд-Синт”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Malagasy: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Malay: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Mazanderani: “گراند سنت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Minangkabau: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Moksha: “Гранд Синт”
  • Narom: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Neapolitan: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Northern Luri: “گراند سنت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Norwegian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grande-Synthe”
  • Papiamento: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Persian: “گراند سنت”
  • Picard: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Piemontese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Polish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Portuguese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Portuguese: “Groot Sinten”
  • Portuguese: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Prussian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Romagnol: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Romanian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Romanian: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Romansh: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Russian: “Гранд-Сент”
  • Russian: “Гранд-Синт”
  • Sardinian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Scots: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Serbian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Serbian: “Гран Синт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Sicilian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Slovak: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Slovenian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Spanish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Spanish: “Groot Sinten”
  • Spanish: “Groot-Sinten”
  • Swahili: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Swedish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Swiss German: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Tatar: “Гранд-Сент”
  • Turkish: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Ukrainian: “Гранд-Сінт”
  • Venetian: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Vietnamese: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Vlaams: “Groot-Sintn”
  • Volapük: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Walloon: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Grande-Synthe”
  • Welsh: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Wolof: “Grande-Synthe”
  • Zulu: “Grande-Synthe”
  • “Grande-Synthe”

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