Coutances
Coutances is a town on the Cotentin Peninsula of Manche, south of Cherbourg. The town has existed since Roman times, functioning mainly as a market town for the surrounding agricultural area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,350 residents
- Description: commune in Manche, France
- Postal codes: 50200 and 50200
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coutances Cathedral and Coutances.
Coutances Cathedral
Church
Photo: Aroche, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coutances Cathedral is a Gothic Catholic cathedral constructed from 1210 to 1274 in the town of Coutances, Normandy, France. It incorporated the remains of an earlier Norman cathedral.
Jardin des plantes de Coutances
Park
Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jardin des plantes de Coutances is a park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances and Bricqueville-la-Blouette.
Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances
Village
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Bricqueville-la-Blouette
Village
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bricqueville-la-Blouette is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Nicorps
Village
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nicorps is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Coutances
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Coutances, Manche, Normandy, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.0478° or 49° 2′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.4455° or 1° 26′ 44″ westPopulation
8,350Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR COTOpen location code
8CXW2HX3+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 640866637OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “Coutances”
- 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”
- Kabyle: “Coutances”
- Kalaallisut: “Coutances”
- Kazakh: “Кутанс”
- Kongo: “Coutances”
- Korean: “쿠탕스”
- Ladin: “Coutances”
- Latin: “Constantia”
- 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”
- Narom: “Couotanches”
- Narom: “Couotaunches”
- 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”
- Uzbek: “Coutances”
- Venetian: “Coutances”
- Vietnamese: “Coutances”
- Vlaams: “Coutances”
- Volapük: “Coutances”
- Walloon: “Coutances”
- Waray (Philippines): “Coutances”
- Welsh: “Coutances”
- Western Frisian: “Coutances”
- Wolof: “Coutances”
- Zulu: “Coutances”
- “Coutances”
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