Hauts-de-France
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Arrondissement of Douai

Somain

Somain is a commune in the department in northern . The former commune of Villers-Campeau was absorbed by Somain in 1947. The town was known for its extensive mining industry.
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  • 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.

Railway station
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.

Theater building
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rieulay and Escaudain.

Village
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, GFDL.
is a commune in the department in northern .

Village
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
is a commune in the department in northern . is situated 5 km southeast of Somain.

Village
Photo: Ottaviani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in northern . It was fictionally portrayed in Émile Zola's Germinal. is situated 5 km north of Somain.

Somain

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
node 26692459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6438503
Wiki­data ID
Q626382
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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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Somain”. Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, Public domain.