Somain
Somain is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. The former commune of Villers-Campeau was absorbed by Somain in 1947. The town was known for its extensive mining industry.- Type: Town with 11,800 residents
- Description: commune in Nord, France
- Also known as: “59574” and “Somain, Nord”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Somain railway station and Théâtre Gérard-Philipe.
Chapelle Sainte-Barbe de Somain
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rieulay and Escaudain.
Escaudain
Village
Marchiennes
Village
Marchiennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It was fictionally portrayed in Émile Zola's Germinal. Marchiennes is situated 5 km north of Somain.
Somain
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Douai, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.3589° or 50° 21′ 32″ north
Longitude
3.2811° or 3° 16′ 52″ east
Population
11,800
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Open location code
9F25975J+HC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Somain from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Somain” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Somain”
- Aragonese: “Somain”
- Arpitan: “Somain”
- Asturian: “Somain”
- Bambara: “Somain”
- Basque: “Somain”
- Bavarian: “Somain”
- Breton: “Somain”
- Bulgarian: “Сомен”
- Cajun French: “Somain”
- Catalan: “Somain”
- Cebuano: “Somain”
- Chechen: “Сомен”
- Chinese: “Somain”
- Chinese: “索曼”
- Corsican: “Somain”
- Croatian: “Somain”
- Czech: “Somain”
- Danish: “Somain”
- Dutch: “Somain”
- Esperanto: “Somain”
- Estonian: “Somain”
- Faroese: “Somain”
- Finnish: “Somain”
- French: “Somain”
- Friulian: “Somain”
- Galician: “Somain”
- German: “Somain”
- Greek: “Βιλιέ-Καμπώ”
- Greek: “Σομαίν”
- Hindi: “सोमें”
- Hungarian: “Somain”
- Icelandic: “Somain”
- Ido: “Somain”
- Indonesian: “Somain, Nord”
- Indonesian: “Somain”
- Interlingua: “Somain”
- Interlingue: “Somain”
- Irish: “Somain”
- Italian: “Somain”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Somain”
- Japanese: “エスコーデン”
- Kabyle: “Somain”
- Kalaallisut: “Somain”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Somain”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Somen”
- Kazakh: “Somain”
- Kazakh: “Somen”
- Kazakh: “Сомен”
- Kazakh: “سومەن”
- Kongo: “Somain”
- Kurdish: “Somain, Nord”
- Kurdish: “Somain”
- Ladin: “Somain”
- Latin: “Somain”
- Latvian: “Somain”
- Ligurian: “Somain”
- Limburgan: “Somain”
- Lithuanian: “Somain”
- Low German: “Somain”
- Luxembourgish: “Somain”
- Mainfränkisch: “Somain”
- Malagasy: “Somain, Nord”
- Malagasy: “Somain”
- Malay: “Somain, Nord”
- Malay: “Somain”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Somain”
- Minangkabau: “Somain”
- Narom: “Somain”
- Neapolitan: “Somain”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somain”
- Norwegian: “Somain”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Somain”
- Papiamento: “Somain”
- Persian: “سومن، نر”
- Persian: “سومن”
- Picard: “Somain”
- Piemontese: “Somain”
- Polish: “Somain”
- Portuguese: “Somain”
- Prussian: “Somain”
- Romagnol: “Somain”
- Romanian: “Somain, Nord”
- Romanian: “Somain”
- Romansh: “Somain”
- Russian: “Сомен”
- Sardinian: “Somain”
- Scots: “Somain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Somain”
- Serbian: “Somain”
- Sicilian: “Somain”
- Slovak: “Somain”
- Slovenian: “Somain”
- Spanish: “Somain”
- Swahili: “Somain”
- Swedish: “Somain”
- Swiss German: “Somain”
- Tatar: “Сомен”
- Turkish: “Somain, Nord”
- Turkish: “Somain”
- Ukrainian: “Сомен”
- Venetian: “Somain”
- Vietnamese: “Somain, Nord”
- Vietnamese: “Somain”
- Vlaams: “Somain”
- Volapük: “Somain”
- Walloon: “Somain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Somain, Nord”
- Waray (Philippines): “Somain”
- Welsh: “Somain”
- Wolof: “Somain”
- Zulu: “Somain”
- “Somain”
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