Cancale

Cancale is a commune in the department in in northwestern France. It is known as the birthplace of Saint Jeanne Jugan.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village with 5,440 residents
  • Description: commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France
  • Also known as: “Cauncall” and “Kankaven”
  • Postal code: 35260
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ancienne église Saint-Méen de Cancale and Église Saint-Méen de Cancale.

Museum
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is a museum.

Church
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is a church.

Lighthouse
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pointe du Grouin and Pointe du Meinga.

Locality
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The rocky finger of the points out and protects the entrance into the bay of Mont Saint-Michel. On this headland, a Grande Randonnée footpath runs around hugging the cliff face and there is a circular walk starting out from Cancale. is situated 3½ km north of Cancale.

Locality
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is a locality, which is situated 7 km northwest of Cancale.

Suburb
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is a village in the north west of , situated north-east from , about five kilometres alongside the coast. Administratively, it is part of the commune of Saint-Malo, in the département of . is situated 9 km west of Cancale.

Cancale

Latitude
48.67717° or 48° 40′ 38″ north
Longitude
-1.8507° or 1° 51′ 3″ west
Population
5,440
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
FR V35 and FR CKY
Open location code
8CWWM4GX+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26696032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3028868
Wiki­data ID
Q203561
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cancale” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cancale”
  • Arabic: “كانكال”
  • Aragonese: “Cancale”
  • Aragonese: “Kankaven”
  • Arpitan: “Cancale”
  • Asturian: “Cancale”
  • Bambara: “Cancale”
  • Basque: “Cancale”
  • Bavarian: “Cancale”
  • Belarusian: “Канкаль”
  • Breton: “Cancale”
  • Breton: “Kankaven”
  • Cajun French: “Cancale”
  • Catalan: “Cancale”
  • Cebuano: “Cancale (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Cancale”
  • Chechen: “Канкаль”
  • Chinese: “Cancale”
  • Chinese: “康卡勒”
  • Chinese: “康卡尔”
  • Corsican: “Cancale”
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  • Czech: “Cancale”
  • Danish: “Cancale”
  • Dutch: “Cancale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانكال”
  • Esperanto: “Cancale”
  • Esperanto: “Cauncall”
  • Esperanto: “Kankaven”
  • Estonian: “Cancale”
  • Faroese: “Cancale”
  • Finnish: “Cancale”
  • French: “Cancale”
  • French: “Cauncall”
  • French: “Kankaven”
  • Friulian: “Cancale”
  • Galician: “Cancale”
  • German: “Cancale”
  • German: “Cauncall”
  • German: “Kankaven”
  • Greek: “Κανκάλ”
  • Hebrew: “קנקאל”
  • Hungarian: “Cancale”
  • Icelandic: “Cancale”
  • Ido: “Cancale”
  • Indonesian: “Cancale”
  • Indonesian: “Cauncall”
  • Indonesian: “Kankaven”
  • Interlingua: “Cancale”
  • Interlingue: “Cancale”
  • Irish: “Cancale”
  • Italian: “Cancale”
  • Italian: “Cauncall”
  • Italian: “Kankaven”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Cancale”
  • Japanese: “カンカル”
  • Kabyle: “Cancale”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cancale”
  • Kazakh: “Канкаль”
  • Kongo: “Cancale”
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  • Ladin: “Cancale”
  • Latin: “Cancale”
  • Latvian: “Cancale”
  • Ligurian: “Cancale”
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  • Lithuanian: “Cancale”
  • Low German: “Cancale”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cancale”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Cancale”
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  • Malay: “Cancale”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cancale”
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  • Narom: “Cancale”
  • Neapolitan: “Cancale”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cancale”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cancale”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cancallebukta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cauncall”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kankaven”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cancale”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kankaven”
  • Papiamento: “Cancale”
  • Persian: “کنکل”
  • Picard: “Cancale”
  • Piemontese: “Cancale”
  • Polish: “Cancale”
  • Portuguese: “Cancale”
  • Portuguese: “Cauncall”
  • Portuguese: “Kankaven”
  • Prussian: “Cancale”
  • Romagnol: “Cancale”
  • Romanian: “Cancale”
  • Romansh: “Cancale”
  • Russian: “Канкаль”
  • Sardinian: “Cancale”
  • Scots: “Cancale”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cancale”
  • Serbian: “Cancale”
  • Serbian: “Kankal”
  • Serbian: “Канкал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cancale”
  • Sicilian: “Cancale”
  • Slovak: “Cancale”
  • Slovenian: “Cancale”
  • Spanish: “Cancale”
  • Spanish: “Cauncall”
  • Spanish: “Kankaven”
  • Swahili: “Cancale”
  • Swedish: “Cancale”
  • Swiss German: “Cancale”
  • Tatar: “Канкаль”
  • Turkish: “Cancale”
  • Ukrainian: “Канкаль”
  • Uzbek: “Cancale”
  • Venetian: “Cancale”
  • Vietnamese: “Cancale”
  • Vlaams: “Cancale”
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  • Walloon: “Cancale”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cancale”
  • Welsh: “Kankaven”
  • Wolof: “Cancale”
  • Yue Chinese: “Cancale”
  • Zulu: “Cancale”
  • “Cancale”
  • “Cauncall”
  • “Kankaven”

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