Avranches
Avranches is a town on the coast in the south-west corner of Manche, at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. Mont Saint-Michel is quite nearby. The town was liberated by American troops during the Normandy campaign after the D-Day invasion of World War II; there is a monument.
- Town with about 10,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 60 metres (190 feet)
- Description: commune in Manche, France
- Postal code: 50300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avranches and Ancienne abbaye de Moutons.
Ancienne abbaye de Moutons
Arts center
Ancienne abbaye de Moutons is an arts center.
Musée d’art et d’histoire d’Avranches
Museum
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Musée d’art et d’histoire d’Avranches is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Martin-des-Champs and Le Val-Saint-Père.
Saint-Martin-des-Champs
Village
Saint-Martin-des-Champs is a former commune in the…
Le Val-Saint-Père
Village
Le Val-Saint-Père is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Avranches
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Latitude
48.6862° or 48° 41′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.3579° or 1° 21′ 29″ west
UN/LOCODE
FR AVR
Open location code
8CWWMJPR+FR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Avranches” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Avranches”
- Albanian: “Avranches”
- Arabic: “أبرنجش”
- Arabic: “أفرنش”
- Arabic: “افرانش”
- Aragonese: “Avranches”
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- Azerbaijani: “Avranş”
- Bambara: “Avranches”
- Basque: “Avranches”
- Bavarian: “Avranches”
- Belarusian: “Аўранш”
- Bengali: “আভ্রঁশ”
- Breton: “Avranches”
- Buginese: “Avranches”
- Cajun French: “Avranches”
- Catalan: “Avranches”
- Cebuano: “Avranches”
- Chechen: “АвгӀанш”
- Chinese: “阿夫朗什”
- Chinese: “阿夫朗什鎮”
- Chinese: “阿夫朗什镇”
- Corsican: “Avranches”
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- Dimli (individual language): “Avranches”
- Dutch: “Avranches”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افرانش”
- Esperanto: “Avranches”
- Estonian: “Avranches”
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- Finnish: “Avranches”
- French: “Avranches”
- French: “Avranchinais”
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- German: “Avranches”
- Greek: “Αβράνς”
- Hebrew: “אווראנש”
- Hungarian: “Avranches”
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- Ido: “Avranches”
- Indonesian: “Avranches”
- Interlingua: “Avranches”
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- Irish: “Avranches”
- Italian: “Avranches”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Avranches”
- Japanese: “アヴランシュ”
- Japanese: “アブランシュ”
- Jèrriais: “Avranches”
- Jèrriais: “Avraunches”
- Kabyle: “Avranches”
- Kalaallisut: “Avranches”
- Kazakh: “Avranş”
- Kazakh: “Авранш”
- Kazakh: “اۆرانش”
- Kongo: “Avranches”
- Korean: “아브랑슈”
- Ladin: “Avranches”
- Latin: “Abrincas”
- Latin: “Abrincatum”
- Latin: “Avrincae”
- Latin: “Ingena”
- Latvian: “Avranches”
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- Limburgan: “Avranches”
- Lithuanian: “Avranšas”
- Low German: “Avranches”
- Luxembourgish: “Avranches”
- Macedonian: “Авранш”
- Mainfränkisch: “Avranches”
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- Malay: “Avranches”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Avranches”
- Minangkabau: “Avranches”
- Neapolitan: “Avranches”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avranches”
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- Norwegian: “Avranches”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Avranches”
- Papiamento: “Avranches”
- Persian: “آورانشز”
- Picard: “Avranches”
- Piemontese: “Avranches”
- Polish: “Avranches”
- Portuguese: “Avranches”
- Prussian: “Avranches”
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- Romanian: “Avranches”
- Romansh: “Avranches”
- Russian: “Авранш”
- Sardinian: “Avranches”
- Scots: “Avranches”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Avranches”
- Serbian: “Avranches”
- Serbian: “Avranš”
- Serbian: “Авранш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Avranches”
- Sicilian: “Avranches”
- Silesian: “Avranches”
- Slovak: “Avranches”
- Slovenian: “Avranches”
- Spanish: “Avranches”
- Swahili: “Avranches”
- Swedish: “Avranches”
- Swiss German: “Avranches”
- Tatar: “Авранш”
- Turkish: “Avranches”
- Ukrainian: “Авранш”
- Urdu: “او رانش”
- Uzbek: “Avranches”
- Venetian: “Avranches”
- Vietnamese: “Avranches”
- Vlaams: “Avranches”
- Volapük: “Avranches”
- Walloon: “Avranches”
- Waray (Philippines): “Avranches”
- Welsh: “Avranches”
- Western Frisian: “Avranches”
- Wolof: “Avranches”
- Wu Chinese: “阿夫朗什”
- Zulu: “Avranches”
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