Coutances

Coutances is a town on the Cotentin Peninsula of , south of Cherbourg. The town has existed since Roman times, functioning mainly as a market town for the surrounding agricultural area.
  • Town with about 8,320 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 90 metres (300 feet)
  • Description: commune in Manche, France
  • Postal code: 50200

Places of Interest

Highlights include Coutances Cathedral and Coutances.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances and Bricqueville-la-Blouette.
is a commune in the department in in north-western .
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Latitude
49.0478° or 49° 2′ 52″ north
Longitude
-1.4455° or 1° 26′ 44″ west
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Coutances” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Coutances”
  • Arabic: “قسطانس”
  • Arabic: “قسطنس”
  • Arabic: “كتنس”
  • Arabic: “كوتانس”
  • Aragonese: “Coutances”
  • Arpitan: “Coutances”
  • Asturian: “Coutances”
  • Bambara: “Coutances”
  • Basque: “Coutances”
  • Bavarian: “Coutances”
  • Bengali: “কুতঁস”
  • Breton: “Coutances”
  • Breton: “Kergustent”
  • Buginese: “Coutances”
  • Cajun French: “Coutances”
  • Catalan: “Coutances”
  • Cebuano: “Coutances (kapital sa arrondissement)”
  • Cebuano: “Coutances”
  • Chechen: “Кутанс”
  • Chinese: “库唐斯”
  • Chinese: “庫唐斯”
  • Corsican: “Coutances”
  • Croatian: “Coutances”
  • Czech: “Coutances”
  • Danish: “Coutances”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Coutances”
  • Dutch: “Coutances”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتانس”
  • Esperanto: “Coutances”
  • Estonian: “Coutances”
  • Faroese: “Coutances”
  • Finnish: “Coutances”
  • French: “Cosedia”
  • French: “Coutance”
  • French: “Coutances”
  • French: “Saint-Nicolas-de-Coutances”
  • Friulian: “Coutances”
  • Galician: “Coutances”
  • German: “Coutances”
  • Greek: “Κουτάνς”
  • Hebrew: “קוטנס”
  • Hungarian: “Coutances”
  • Icelandic: “Coutances”
  • Ido: “Coutances”
  • Indonesian: “Coutances”
  • Interlingua: “Coutances”
  • Interlingue: “Coutances”
  • Irish: “Coutances”
  • Italian: “Coutances”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Coutances”
  • Japanese: “クータンス”
  • Japanese: “クータンセ”
  • Japanese: “クタンス”
  • Jèrriais: “Couotanches”
  • Jèrriais: “Couotaunches”
  • Kabyle: “Coutances”
  • Kalaallisut: “Coutances”
  • Kazakh: “Кутанс”
  • Kongo: “Coutances”
  • Korean: “쿠탕스”
  • Ladin: “Coutances”
  • Latin: “Constantia”
  • Latin: “Cosedia”
  • Latvian: “Coutances”
  • Ligurian: “Coutances”
  • Limburgan: “Coutances”
  • Lithuanian: “Coutances”
  • Low German: “Coutances”
  • Luxembourgish: “Coutances”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Coutances”
  • Malagasy: “Coutances”
  • Malay: “Coutances”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Coutances”
  • Minangkabau: “Coutances”
  • Neapolitan: “Coutances”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coutances”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coutances”
  • Norwegian: “Coutances”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Coutances”
  • Papiamento: “Coutances”
  • Persian: “کوتانس”
  • Picard: “Coutances”
  • Piemontese: “Coutances”
  • Polish: “Coutances”
  • Portuguese: “Coutances”
  • Prussian: “Coutances”
  • Romagnol: “Coutances”
  • Romanian: “Coutances”
  • Romansh: “Coutances”
  • Russian: “Кутанс”
  • Sardinian: “Coutances”
  • Scots: “Coutances”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Coutances”
  • Serbian: “Coutances”
  • Serbian: “Kutans”
  • Serbian: “Кутанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Coutances”
  • Sicilian: “Coutances”
  • Slovak: “Coutances”
  • Slovenian: “Coutances”
  • Spanish: “Coutances”
  • Swahili: “Coutances”
  • Swedish: “Coutances”
  • Swiss German: “Coutances”
  • Tatar: “Кутанс”
  • Turkish: “Coutances”
  • Ukrainian: “Кутанс”
  • Urdu: “کوتانس”
  • Uzbek: “Coutances”
  • Venetian: “Coutances”
  • Vietnamese: “Coutances”
  • Vlaams: “Coutances”
  • Volapük: “Coutances”
  • Walloon: “Coutances”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Coutances”
  • Welsh: “Coutances”
  • Western Frisian: “Coutances”
  • Wolof: “Coutances”
  • Zulu: “Coutances”

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