Caen
Caen is the capital and largest city of the Calvados department in Normandy. 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.
- City with 108,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 21 metres (69 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CFR
- …was formerly known as “Cathim”
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Postal code: 14000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen and Caen station.
Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen
Monastery
The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux…
Château de Caen
Ruins
The Château de Caen is a castle in the Norman city of Caen in the Calvados département.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hérouville-Saint-Clair and Mondeville.
Hérouville-Saint-Clair
Town
Hérouville-Saint-Clair is a commune in the Calvados…
Mondeville
Town
Mondeville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy région in northwestern France.
Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe
Village
Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe is a commune in the…
Caen
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Latitude
49.1813° or 49° 10′ 53″ north
Longitude
-0.3636° or 0° 21′ 49″ west
UN/LOCODE
FR CFR
Open location code
8CXX5JJP+GH
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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”
- Asturian: “Caen”
- Aymara: “Caen”
- Azerbaijani: “Kann”
- Balinese: “Caen”
- Bambara: “Caen”
- Banjar: “Kanas”
- Basque: “Caen”
- Bavarian: “Caen”
- Belarusian: “Кан”
- Bengali: “কঁ”
- Bengali: “কাঁ”
- Breton: “Caen”
- Bulgarian: “Каен”
- Bulgarian: “Кан”
- Cajun French: “Caen”
- Catalan: “Caen”
- Cebuano: “Caen”
- Chechen: “Кан”
- Chinese: “卡昂”
- Chinese: “卡昂市”
- Chinese: “康城”
- Chuvash: “Кан”
- Corsican: “Caen”
- Croatian: “Caen”
- Czech: “Caen”
- Dagbani: “Caen”
- Danish: “Caen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Caen”
- Dutch: “Caen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاين”
- Esperanto: “Caen”
- Esperanto: “Kaeno”
- Estonian: “Caen”
- Faroese: “Caen”
- Finnish: “Caen”
- French: “Caen”
- French: “L’Athène normande”
- French: “Ville aux cent clochers”
- Friulian: “Caen”
- Galician: “Caen”
- Georgian: “კანი”
- German: “Caen”
- Greek: “Καέν”
- Gujarati: “કેન”
- Hausa: “Caen”
- Hebrew: “קן”
- Hindi: “काँ”
- Hindi: “कौं”
- Hungarian: “Caen”
- Icelandic: “Caen”
- Ido: “Caen”
- Indonesian: “Caen”
- Interlingua: “Caen”
- Interlingue: “Caen”
- Irish: “Caen”
- Italian: “Caen”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Caen”
- Japanese: “カーン”
- Javanese: “Caen”
- Jèrriais: “Caem”
- Jèrriais: “Caen”
- Jèrriais: “Caën”
- Jèrriais: “Kaem”
- Kabyle: “Caen”
- 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”
- 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”
- Piemontese: “Caen”
- Polish: “Caen”
- Pontic: “Καέν”
- Portuguese: “Caen”
- Prussian: “Caen”
- Romagnol: “Caen”
- 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”
- Tumbuka: “Caen”
- Turkish: “Caen”
- Ukrainian: “Кальвадос”
- Ukrainian: “Кан”
- Urdu: “کان”
- Urdu: “کاں”
- Uzbek: “Caen”
- Uzbek: “Kan”
- Venetian: “Caen”
- Vietnamese: “Caen”
- Vlaams: “Caen”
- Volapük: “Caen”
- Walloon: “Caen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caen”
- Welsh: “Caen”
- Western Frisian: “Caen”
- Western Panjabi: “کین”
- Wolof: “Caen”
- Wu Chinese: “卡昂”
- Yue Chinese: “卡昂”
- Yue Chinese: “康城”
- Zulu: “Caen”
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