Normandy
Orne
Arrondissement of Alençon

Essay

Essay is a commune in the department in north-western . The town is mainly known nowadays for its motorsports tracks, and hosted a round of the 2011 European Rallycross Championship.
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  • Type: Village with 540 residents
  • Description: commune in Orne, France
  • Also known as: “61156” and “Essay, Orne”
  • Postal code: 61500

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château d’Aunay-les-Bois and Chapelle des ducs d’Alençon d’Essay.

Castle
Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Church
Photo: Pradigue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bursard and Neauphe-sous-Essai.

Village
Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in northwestern .

Village
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is a commune in the department in north-western . is situated 3½ km northwest of Essay.

Village
Photo: Peter17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in north-western . is situated 5 km southeast of Essay.

Essay

Latitude
48.5427° or 48° 32′ 34″ north
Longitude
0.2462° or 0° 14′ 47″ east
Population
540
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
Open location code
8FW2G6VW+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 268025008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6454465
Wiki­data ID
Q681279
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Essay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Essay”
  • Arabic: “إسي بأورن”
  • Aragonese: “Essay”
  • Arpitan: “Essay”
  • Asturian: “Essay”
  • Bambara: “Essay”
  • Basque: “Essay”
  • Bavarian: “Essay”
  • Breton: “Essay”
  • Cajun French: “Essay”
  • Catalan: “Essay”
  • Cebuano: “Essay”
  • Chechen: “Ессе (ОгӀн)”
  • Chechen: “Ессе”
  • Chinese: “Essay”
  • Chinese: “埃賽”
  • Chinese: “埃赛”
  • Corsican: “Essay”
  • Croatian: “Essay”
  • Czech: “Essay”
  • Danish: “Essay”
  • Dutch: “Essay (Orne)”
  • Dutch: “Essay”
  • Esperanto: “Essay”
  • Estonian: “Essay”
  • Faroese: “Essay”
  • Finnish: “Essay”
  • French: “Echuffley”
  • French: “Échuffley”
  • French: “Essay”
  • French: “Mont-Perroux”
  • French: “Montperroux”
  • Friulian: “Essay”
  • Galician: “Essay”
  • German: “Essay”
  • Greek: “Εσαί”
  • Hungarian: “Essay”
  • Icelandic: “Essay”
  • Ido: “Essay”
  • Indonesian: “Essay, Orne”
  • Indonesian: “Essay”
  • Interlingua: “Essay”
  • Interlingue: “Essay”
  • Irish: “Essay”
  • Italian: “Essay”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Essay”
  • Japanese: “エッセイ”
  • Kabyle: “Essay”
  • Kalaallisut: “Essay”
  • Kazakh: “Essay”
  • Kazakh: “Esse”
  • Kazakh: “Ессе”
  • Kazakh: “Эссе”
  • Kazakh: “ەسسە”
  • Kongo: “Essay”
  • Korean: “에세이”
  • Kurdish: “Essay, Orne”
  • Kurdish: “Essay”
  • Ladin: “Essay”
  • Latin: “Essay”
  • Latvian: “Essay”
  • Ligurian: “Essay”
  • Limburgan: “Essay”
  • Lithuanian: “Essay”
  • Low German: “Essay”
  • Luxembourgish: “Essay”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Essay”
  • Malagasy: “Essay, Orne”
  • Malagasy: “Essay”
  • Malay: “Essay, Orne”
  • Malay: “Essay”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Essay”
  • Minangkabau: “Essay”
  • Narom: “Essay”
  • Neapolitan: “Essay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Essay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Essay”
  • Papiamento: “Essay”
  • Picard: “Essay”
  • Piemontese: “Essay”
  • Polish: “Essay”
  • Portuguese: “Essay”
  • Prussian: “Essay”
  • Romagnol: “Essay”
  • Romanian: “Essay, Orne”
  • Romanian: “Essay”
  • Romansh: “Essay”
  • Russian: “Ессе”
  • Sardinian: “Essay”
  • Scots: “Essay”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Essay”
  • Serbian: “Ese”
  • Serbian: “Essay”
  • Serbian: “Есе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essay”
  • Sicilian: “Essay”
  • Slovak: “Essay”
  • Slovenian: “Essay”
  • Spanish: “Essay”
  • Swahili: “Essay”
  • Swedish: “Essay, Orne”
  • Swedish: “Essay”
  • Swiss German: “Essay”
  • Tatar: “Ессе”
  • Turkish: “Essay”
  • Ukrainian: “Ессе”
  • Uzbek: “Essay”
  • Venetian: “Essay”
  • Vietnamese: “Essay, Orne”
  • Vietnamese: “Essay”
  • Vlaams: “Essay”
  • Volapük: “Essay”
  • Walloon: “Essay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Essay, Orne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Essay”
  • Welsh: “Essay”
  • Wolof: “Essay”
  • Zulu: “Essay”
  • “Essay”

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