Hauts-de-France
North
Arrondissement of Douai

Douai

Douai is a small city of 40,000 inhabitants in the region of , known for its belfry. The city is located between and Valenciennes.
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  • Type: City with 39,600 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Douay”
  • Postal code: 59500

Places of Interest

Highlights include Douai station and Hôtel de Ville, Douai.

Railway station
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douai is a railway station serving the town of Douai, , . The station opened in 1846 and is located on the Paris–Lille railway and Douai–Valenciennes railway. The train services are operated by .

Town hall
Photo: Remi Mathis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hôtel de Ville is a historic building in Douai, , northern , standing on the Rue de la Marie. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1862.

Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée de la Chartreuse is an art museum in a former Carthusian monastery in Douai, . It is the 'musée des Beaux-Arts' for the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flers-en-Escrebieux.

Village
Photo: Dosto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in northern .

Douai

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
United Nations Location Code
FR DOI
Open location code
9F25939J+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692252
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3021000
Wiki­data ID
Q193826
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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”
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  • Asturian: “Douai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Due”
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  • Belarusian: “Дуэ”
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  • Bulgarian: “Дуе”
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  • Chinese: “Douai”
  • Chinese: “杜埃”
  • Chuvash: “Дуэ”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “دواى”
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  • French: “Duaci”
  • French: “Duacum”
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  • German: “Douai”
  • Greek: “Ντουαί”
  • Hebrew: “דוואי”
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  • Irish: “Douai”
  • Italian: “Doagio”
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  • Japanese: “ドゥエー”
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  • Kazakh: “Дуе”
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  • Korean: “두에”
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  • Latin: “Duacum”
  • Latvian: “Duē”
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  • Mazanderani: “دوئه”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Douai”
  • Papiamento: “Douai”
  • Persian: “دوئه”
  • Picard: “Doï”
  • Picard: “Doué”
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  • Romansh: “Douai”
  • Russian: “Дуэ”
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  • Serbian: “Douai”
  • Serbian: “Due”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “دوئه”
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  • Tatar: “Дуэ (Франция)”
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  • Ukrainian: “Дуе”
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  • Wu Chinese: “杜埃”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Douai”. Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, CC0.