Douai
Douai is a small city of 40,000 inhabitants in the Hauts-de-France region of France, known for its belfry. The city is located between Lens and Valenciennes.
- Type: City with 39,600 residents
- Description: commune in Nord, France
- Also known as: “Doagio”, “Douay”, “Doué”, and “Duaci”
- Postal code: 59500
Places of Interest
Highlights: Douai station and Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai.
Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flers-en-Escrebieux.
Flers-en-Escrebieux
Village
Douai
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Douai, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.3676° or 50° 22′ 3″ north
Longitude
3.0805° or 3° 4′ 50″ east
Population
39,600
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
XDN
UN/LOCODE
FR DOI
Open location code
9F25939J+25
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Douai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Douai”
- Albanian: “Duai”
- Arabic: “دواي”
- Arabic: “دويه”
- Aragonese: “Douai”
- Armenian: “Դուե”
- Arpitan: “Douai”
- Asturian: “Douai”
- Azerbaijani: “Due”
- Bambara: “Douai”
- Basque: “Douai”
- Bavarian: “Douai”
- Belarusian: “Дуэ”
- Breton: “Douai”
- Bulgarian: “Дуе”
- Cajun French: “Douai”
- Catalan: “Douai”
- Cebuano: “Douai”
- Chechen: “Дуе”
- Chinese: “杜埃”
- Chuvash: “Дуэ”
- Corsican: “Douai”
- Croatian: “Douai”
- Czech: “Douai”
- Dagbani: “Douai”
- Danish: “Douai”
- Dutch: “Douai”
- Dutch: “Dowaai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دواى”
- Esperanto: “Douai”
- Estonian: “Douai”
- Faroese: “Douai”
- Finnish: “Douai”
- French: “Douai”
- Friulian: “Douai”
- Galician: “Douai”
- German: “Douai”
- Greek: “Ντουαί”
- Hebrew: “דואה”
- Hungarian: “Douai”
- Icelandic: “Douai”
- Ido: “Douai”
- Indonesian: “Douai”
- Interlingua: “Douai”
- Interlingue: “Douai”
- Irish: “Douai”
- Italian: “Douai”
- Italian: “Duagio”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Douai”
- Japanese: “ドゥエー”
- Jèrriais: “Douai”
- Kabyle: “Douai”
- Kalaallisut: “Douai”
- Kazakh: “Дуе”
- Kongo: “Douai”
- Korean: “두에”
- Kurdish: “Douai”
- Ladin: “Douai”
- Latin: “Duacum”
- Latvian: “Duē”
- Ligurian: “Douai”
- Limburgan: “Douai”
- Lithuanian: “Douai”
- Low German: “Douai”
- Luxembourgish: “Douai”
- Macedonian: “Дуе”
- Mainfränkisch: “Douai”
- Malagasy: “Douai”
- Malay: “Douai”
- Mazanderani: “دوئه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Douai”
- Minangkabau: “Douai”
- Neapolitan: “Douai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Douai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Douai”
- Norwegian: “Douai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Douai”
- Papiamento: “Douai”
- Persian: “دوئه”
- Picard: “Doï”
- Piemontese: “Douai”
- Polish: “Douai”
- Portuguese: “Douai”
- Prussian: “Douai”
- Romagnol: “Douai”
- Romanian: “Douai”
- Romansh: “Douai”
- Russian: “Дуэ”
- Sardinian: “Douai”
- Scots: “Douai”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Douai”
- Serbian: “Douai”
- Serbian: “Due”
- Serbian: “Дуе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Douai”
- Sicilian: “Douai”
- Silesian: “Douai”
- Slovak: “Douai”
- Slovenian: “Douai”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوئه”
- Spanish: “Douai”
- Swahili: “Douai”
- Swedish: “Douai”
- Swiss German: “Douai”
- Tatar: “Дуэ (Франция)”
- Tatar: “Дуэ”
- Turkish: “Douai”
- Ukrainian: “Дуе”
- Urdu: “ڈوائی”
- Venetian: “Douai”
- Vietnamese: “Douai”
- Vlaams: “Douai”
- Volapük: “Douai”
- Walloon: “Douai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Douai”
- Welsh: “Douai”
- Wolof: “Douai”
- Wu Chinese: “杜埃”
- Zulu: “Douai”
- “Douai”
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