Calais

Calais is a city of 73,000 people in the region of . It is the closest point on the European mainland to ; lies across the English Channel just 32 km away.
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  • City with 67,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code CQF
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Postal code: 62100
  • Also known as
    “Dampierre-les-Dunes”
    “Saint-Pierre-lès-Calais (réunie à Calais)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Calais-Ville station and Calais Light.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the city centre of Calais, France.

Lighthouse
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Calais Lighthouse is located in Calais in .

Town hall
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The Hôtel de Ville is the seat of the city council in Calais, France.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coulogne.

Village
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is a commune in the department, region of , France.

Calais

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Latitude
50.9525° or 50° 57′ 9″ north
Longitude
1.8538° or 1° 51′ 14″ east
UN/LOCODE
FR CQF
Open location code
9F23XV23+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691842
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3029162
Wiki­data ID
Q6454

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Calais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Calais”
  • Arabic: “كاليه”
  • Aragonese: “Calais”
  • Armenian: “Կալե”
  • Arpitan: “Calais”
  • Asturian: “Calais”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kale”
  • Balinese: “Calais”
  • Bambara: “Calais”
  • Basque: “Calais”
  • Bavarian: “Calais”
  • Belarusian: “Кале”
  • Bengali: “কালে”
  • Bosnian: “Calais”
  • Breton: “Calais”
  • Bulgarian: “Кале”
  • Cajun French: “Calais”
  • Catalan: “Calais”
  • Cebuano: “Calais”
  • Chechen: “Кале”
  • Chinese: “加來”
  • Chinese: “加来”
  • Chinese: “加萊”
  • Chuvash: “Кале”
  • Corsican: “Calais”
  • Croatian: “Calais”
  • Czech: “Calais”
  • Danish: “Calais”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Calais”
  • Dutch: “Calais”
  • Dutch: “Kales”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاليه”
  • Esperanto: “Calais”
  • Esperanto: “Kalezo”
  • Estonian: “Calais”
  • Faroese: “Calais”
  • Finnish: “Calais”
  • French: “Calais”
  • French: “Dampierre-les-Dunes”
  • French: “Saint-Pierre-lès-Calais (réunie à Calais)”
  • Friulian: “Calais”
  • Galician: “Calais”
  • German: “Calais”
  • German: “Kalen”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃”
  • Greek: “Καλαί”
  • Gujarati: “કેલેસ”
  • Hebrew: “קאלה”
  • Hebrew: “קלה”
  • Hindi: “कैले”
  • Hungarian: “Calais”
  • Icelandic: “Calais”
  • Ido: “Calais”
  • Indonesian: “Calais”
  • Interlingua: “Calais”
  • Interlingue: “Calais”
  • Irish: “Calais”
  • Italian: “Calais”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Calais”
  • Japanese: “カレー”
  • Jèrriais: “Calais”
  • Kabyle: “Calais”
  • Kalaallisut: “Calais”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲೈಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кале”
  • Kirghiz: “Кале шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Кале”
  • Kongo: “Calais”
  • Korean: “칼레”
  • Kurdish: “Calais”
  • Ladin: “Calais”
  • Latin: “Calesium”
  • Latin: “Caletum”
  • Latvian: “Kalē”
  • Ligurian: “Calais”
  • Limburgan: “Calais”
  • Limburgan: “Kales”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalė”
  • Low German: “Calais”
  • Luxembourgish: “Calais”
  • Macedonian: “Кале”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Calais”
  • Malagasy: “Calais”
  • Malay: “Calais”
  • Maltese: “Calais”
  • Manx: “Calais”
  • Marathi: “कॅले”
  • Mazanderani: “کاله (فرانسه)”
  • Mazanderani: “کاله”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Calais”
  • Minangkabau: “Calais”
  • Moksha: “Калэ”
  • Neapolitan: “Calais”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calais”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calais”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Calais”
  • Norwegian: “Calais”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Calais”
  • Ossetian: “Кале”
  • Papiamento: “Calais”
  • Persian: “کاله”
  • Picard: “Calés”
  • Piemontese: “Calais”
  • Polish: “Calais”
  • Pontic: “Καλαί”
  • Portuguese: “Calais”
  • Prussian: “Calais”
  • Romagnol: “Calais”
  • Romanian: “Calais”
  • Romansh: “Calais”
  • Russian: “Кале”
  • Sardinian: “Calais”
  • Scots: “Calais”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Calais”
  • Serbian: “Calais”
  • Serbian: “Кале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calais”
  • Sicilian: “Calais”
  • Silesian: “Calais”
  • Sinhala: “කලෙස්”
  • Slovak: “Calais”
  • Slovenian: “Calais”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاله”
  • Spanish: “Calais”
  • Swahili: “Calais”
  • Swedish: “Calais”
  • Swiss German: “Calais”
  • Tamil: “கலே”
  • Tatar: “Кале”
  • Telugu: “కాలయిస్”
  • Thai: “กาแล”
  • Tumbuka: “Calais”
  • Turkish: “Calais”
  • Ukrainian: “Кале”
  • Urdu: “کالے”
  • Urdu: “کیلے”
  • Uzbek: “Kale”
  • Venetian: “Calais”
  • Vietnamese: “Calais”
  • Vlaams: “Calais”
  • Vlaams: “Kales”
  • Volapük: “Calais”
  • Walloon: “Calais”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calais”
  • Welsh: “Calais”
  • Western Armenian: “Քալիէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Calais”
  • Western Frisian: “Kales”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالے”
  • Wolof: “Calais”
  • Wu Chinese: “加莱”
  • Yiddish: “קאלע”
  • Yiddish: “קאַלע”
  • Yiddish: “קאלעע”
  • Yue Chinese: “加萊”
  • Zulu: “Calais”

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