Normandy
Calvados
Arrondissement of Caen

Caen

Caen is the capital and largest city of the department in . Situated a few miles from the coast, the landing beaches, the bustling resorts of Deauville and Cabourg, as well as Norman Switzerland and the Pays d'Auge, Caen is often considered the archetype of Normandy.
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  • Type: City with 108,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Calvados, France
  • Historically known as: “Cathim”
  • Postal codes: 14000 and 14000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen and Caen station.

Monastery
Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former Benedictine monastery in the city of Caen, Normandy, dedicated to Saint Stephen.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Caen, Gare de l'Ouest or Gare Calvados, is the main and now only station serving the city of Caen, Normandy, France. The station stands on the main line from Paris to Cherbourg and although it mainly is an intercity station many regional trains use the station.

Monastery
Photo: Louis Boudan, Public domain.
The , better known as the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former Benedictine nunnery in Caen, Normandy, now home to the Regional Council of Normandy. The complex includes the Church of Sainte-Trinité.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hérouville-Saint-Clair and Mondeville.

Town
Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in northwestern . It is a suburb of the city of Caen, and lies adjacent to it in a northeasterly direction, along the west side of the Canal de Caen à la Mer.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the région in northwestern .

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in northwestern .

Caen

Latitude
49.1813° or 49° 10′ 53″ north
Longitude
-0.3636° or 0° 21′ 49″ west
Population
108,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
CFR
United Nations Location Code
FR CFR
Open location code
8CXX5JJP+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 412476714
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3029241
Wiki­data ID
Q41185
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Caen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Caen”
  • Albanian: “Caen”
  • Amharic: “ካየን”
  • Arabic: “كان”
  • Arabic: “كاين”
  • Aragonese: “Caen”
  • Armenian: “Կան”
  • Arpitan: “Caen”
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  • Aymara: “Caen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kann”
  • Balinese: “Caen”
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  • Banjar: “Kanas”
  • Basque: “Caen”
  • Bavarian: “Caen”
  • Belarusian: “Кан”
  • Bengali: “কঁ”
  • Bengali: “কাঁ”
  • Breton: “Caen”
  • Bulgarian: “Каен”
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  • Cajun French: “Caen”
  • Catalan: “Caen”
  • Cebuano: “Caen”
  • Chechen: “Кан”
  • Chinese: “Caen”
  • Chinese: “卡昂”
  • Chinese: “卡昂市”
  • Chinese: “康城”
  • Chuvash: “Кан”
  • Corsican: “Caen”
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  • Czech: “Caen”
  • Danish: “Caen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Caen”
  • Dutch: “Caen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاين”
  • Esperanto: “Caen”
  • Esperanto: “Kaeno”
  • Estonian: “Caen”
  • Faroese: “Caen”
  • Finnish: “Caen”
  • French: “Caen-la-Mer”
  • French: “Caen”
  • French: “Caennais”
  • French: “la Venise normande”
  • Friulian: “Caen”
  • Galician: “Caen”
  • Georgian: “კანი”
  • German: “Caen”
  • Greek: “Καέν”
  • Gujarati: “કેન”
  • Hausa: “Caen”
  • Hebrew: “קן”
  • Hindi: “कौं”
  • Hungarian: “Caen”
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  • Jamaican Creole English: “Caen”
  • Japanese: “カーン”
  • Javanese: “Caen”
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  • Kalaallisut: “Caen”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кан”
  • Kongo: “Caen”
  • Korean: “캉”
  • Kurdish: “Caen”
  • Ladin: “Caen”
  • Ladino: “Caen”
  • Latin: “Cadomum”
  • Latin: “Cadum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Cadumum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Caen”
  • Latin: “Catomum” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Caen”
  • Latvian: “Kāna”
  • Ligurian: “Caen”
  • Limburgan: “Caen”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanas”
  • Low German: “Caen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Caen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Caen”
  • Macedonian: “Кан”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Caen”
  • Malagasy: “Caen”
  • Malay: “Caen”
  • Marathi: “कां”
  • Marathi: “केन”
  • Mazanderani: “کان”
  • Middle French (ca. 1400-1600): “Can” (historical)
  • Middle French (ca. 1400-1600): “Canz” (historical)
  • Middle French (ca. 1400-1600): “Caon” (historical)
  • Middle French (ca. 1400-1600): “Cham” (historical)
  • Middle French (ca. 1400-1600): “Kadunum” (historical)
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caen”
  • Minangkabau: “Caen”
  • Moksha: “Кан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كا”
  • Narom: “Caem”
  • Narom: “Caen”
  • Narom: “Caën”
  • Narom: “Kaem”
  • Neapolitan: “Caen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Caen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caen”
  • Norwegian: “Caen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Can”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caðum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caþum”
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Caam” (historical)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Caem” (historical)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Cahem” (historical)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Chaam” (historical)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Chaem” (historical)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Quaam” (historical)
  • Ossetian: “Кан”
  • Pampanga: “Caen”
  • Papiamento: “Caen”
  • Persian: “کان”
  • Picard: “Caen”
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  • Polish: “Caen”
  • Pontic: “Καέν”
  • Portuguese: “Caen”
  • Prussian: “Caen”
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  • Romanian: “Caen”
  • Romansh: “Caen”
  • Russian: “Caen”
  • Russian: “Кан”
  • Sardinian: “Caen”
  • Scots: “Caen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caen”
  • Serbian: “Caen”
  • Serbian: “Каен”
  • Serbian: “Кан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Caen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kan”
  • Sicilian: “Caen”
  • Silesian: “Caen”
  • Sinhala: “කයින්”
  • Slovak: “Caen”
  • Slovenian: “Caen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کان”
  • Spanish: “Caen Francia”
  • Spanish: “Caen”
  • Swahili: “Caen”
  • Swedish: “Caen”
  • Swiss German: “Caen”
  • Tamil: “கன்”
  • Tatar: “Кан”
  • Telugu: “కేఎన్”
  • Thai: “Caen”
  • Thai: “ก็อง”
  • Thai: “ค็อง”
  • Turkish: “Caen”
  • Ukrainian: “Кальвадос”
  • Ukrainian: “Кан”
  • Urdu: “کان”
  • Urdu: “کاں”
  • Uzbek: “Caen”
  • Uzbek: “Kan”
  • Venetian: “Caen”
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  • Vlaams: “Caen”
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  • Walloon: “Caen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caen”
  • Welsh: “Caen”
  • Western Frisian: “Caen”
  • Western Panjabi: “کین”
  • Wolof: “Caen”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡昂”
  • Yue Chinese: “康城”
  • Zulu: “Caen”
  • “Caen”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Caen”. Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.