Hauts-de-France
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Arrondissement of Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk is a town in the region of in . The town is a historic resort, 10 km from the border with . If you're coming from the UK, it's a great place to start your journey further into the Continent, but also a great holiday…
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  • Type: City with 86,800 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Duinkerke”, “Dune-Libre”, “Dunkerque”, and “Dünkirchen”
  • Postal codes: 59140, 59140, 59240, 59240, 59279, 59640, and 59640

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunkirk and Hôtel de Ville, Dunkirk.

Railway station
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station is a railway station serving the town , department, northern . This part of French Flanders is near in .

Town hall
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Dunkirk, , northern , standing on the Place Charles Valentin. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1989.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Dunkirk, France. It is the home ground of Ligue 2 club USL Dunkerque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Pol-sur-Mer and Petite-Synthe.

Suburb
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is a former commune in the department in northern . Since 9 December 2010, it is part of the commune of Dunkirk. In 2022 it had 20,346 inhabitants.

Suburb
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is a former commune of the Nord département in northern . The commune of was created in 1877, by its territory being detached from .

Suburb
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Dunkirk is a major port city in the department of in northern France. It lies on the , 10 kilometres from the border. It has the third-largest French harbour. The population of the commune in 2019 was 86,279.

Dunkirk

Latitude
51.0348° or 51° 2′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.3773° or 2° 22′ 38″ east
Population
86,800
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Dune-Libre”
Name during the French Revolution
“Dunes-Libres”
Name during the French Revolution
“Dun-Libre”
IATA airport code
CQF
United Nations Location Codes
FR IRK and FR DKK
Open location code
9F3429MG+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3020686
Wiki­data ID
Q45797
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dunkirk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Duinkerken”
  • Afrikaans: “Dunkerque”
  • Afrikaans: “Dünkirchen”
  • Afrikaans: “Dunkirk”
  • Albanian: “Dunkirk”
  • Arabic: “دونكيرك”
  • Aragonese: “Dunkerque”
  • Armenian: “Դյունկերկ”
  • Arpitan: “Dunkerque”
  • Asturian: “Dunkerque”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dünkerk”
  • Bakhtiari: “دنکرک”
  • Bambara: “Dunkerque”
  • Basque: “Dunkerque”
  • Bavarian: “Dunkerque”
  • Bavarian: “Dünkirchn”
  • Belarusian: “Дзюнкерк”
  • Belarusian: “Дункерк”
  • Bengali: “দাঁকের্ক”
  • Breton: “Dukark”
  • Breton: “Dunkirk”
  • Bulgarian: “Дюнкерк”
  • Burmese: “ဒန်ကာ့ခ်မြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Dunkerque”
  • Catalan: “Duinkerke”
  • Catalan: “Duinkerken”
  • Catalan: “Dunkerque”
  • Catalan: “Dunkirk”
  • Catalan: “Dunquerque”
  • Cebuano: “Dunkerque”
  • Chechen: “ДуьнкегӀк”
  • Chinese: “Dunkirk”
  • Chinese: “敦克爾克”
  • Chinese: “敦刻尔克”
  • Chinese: “鄧寇克”
  • Chuvash: “Дюнкерк”
  • Corsican: “Dunkerque”
  • Croatian: “Dunkerque”
  • Croatian: “Dunkirk”
  • Czech: “Dunkerk”
  • Czech: “Dunkerque”
  • Danish: “Dunkerque”
  • Danish: “Dynkirke”
  • Dutch: “Duinkerke”
  • Dutch: “Duinkerken”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دونكيرك”
  • Esperanto: “Duinkerke”
  • Esperanto: “Duinkerken”
  • Esperanto: “Dunkerque”
  • Esperanto: “Dunkirko”
  • Esperanto: “Duunkerke”
  • Estonian: “Dunkerque”
  • Faroese: “Dunkerque”
  • Finnish: “Dunkerque”
  • Finnish: “Dunkirk”
  • French: “Duinkerke”
  • French: “Dune Libre”
  • French: “Dune-Libre”
  • French: “Dunkerque”
  • French: “Dunkerquois”
  • French: “Dünkirchen”
  • French: “Duunkerke”
  • French: “Grand Dunkerque”
  • Friulian: “Dunkerque”
  • Galician: “Dunkerque”
  • Georgian: “დიუნკერკი”
  • German: “Dünchilche”
  • German: “Dunkerque”
  • German: “Dünkìrcha”
  • German: “Dünkirche”
  • German: “Dünkirchen”
  • German: “Malo-les-Bains”
  • Greek: “Δουνκέρκη”
  • Greek: “Ντανκέρκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડંકિર્ક”
  • Hebrew: “דנקירק”
  • Hebrew: “דנקרק”
  • Hindi: “डनकर्क”
  • Hindi: “दैंकर्क”
  • Hungarian: “Dunkerque”
  • Hungarian: “Dünkirchen”
  • Hungarian: “Dunkirk”
  • Icelandic: “Dunkerque”
  • Icelandic: “Dunkirk”
  • Ido: “Dunkerque”
  • Indonesian: “Dunkerque”
  • Interlingua: “Dunkerque”
  • Interlingue: “Dunkerque”
  • Irish: “Dunkerque”
  • Italian: “Doncherche”
  • Italian: “Dunkerque”
  • Italian: “Dünkirchen”
  • Italian: “Dunquerque”
  • Italian: “Malo-les-Bains”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Dunkerque”
  • Japanese: “Duinkerke”
  • Japanese: “Dune-Libre”
  • Japanese: “Dunkerque”
  • Japanese: “Dünkirchen”
  • Japanese: “ダンケルク”
  • Javanese: “Duinkerken”
  • Kabyle: “Dunkerque”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dunkerque”
  • Kannada: “ಡಂಕಿರ್ಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Dunkerka”
  • Kazakh: “Дюнкерк”
  • Kölsch: “Dünnkerrsche”
  • Kongo: “Dunkerque”
  • Korean: “덩케르크”
  • Korean: “됭케르크”
  • Kurdish: “Dunkirk”
  • Ladin: “Dunkerque”
  • Ladin: “Dunkirk”
  • Ladino: “Dunkerque”
  • Latin: “Duinkerke”
  • Latin: “Dunkerque”
  • Latin: “Dunkirca”
  • Latin: “Dunkirk”
  • Latin: “Dunkirka”
  • Latin: “Dunquerca”
  • Latvian: “Dankerka”
  • Latvian: “Dankērka”
  • Latvian: “Denkerka”
  • Latvian: “Duinkerke”
  • Latvian: “Dunkerque”
  • Latvian: “Dunkirk”
  • Latvian: “Dunkirka”
  • Ligurian: “Dunkerque”
  • Limburgan: “Duinkerke”
  • Limburgan: “Dunkerque”
  • Lithuanian: “Diunkerkas”
  • Lithuanian: “Dunkerque”
  • Low German: “Dunkerque”
  • Low German: “Duunkarke”
  • Low German: “Düünkarke”
  • Low German: “Düünkarken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dunkerque”
  • Macedonian: “Динкерк”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Dunkerque”
  • Malagasy: “Dunkerque”
  • Malagasy: “Dunkirk”
  • Malay: “Dunkerque”
  • Malay: “Dunkirk”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൺകിർക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Dunkirk”
  • Manx: “Dunkerque”
  • Marathi: “डंकर्क”
  • Mazanderani: “دنکرک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dunkirk”
  • Minangkabau: “Dunkerque”
  • Moksha: “Дюнкэрк”
  • Narom: “Duinkerke”
  • Narom: “Dunkerque”
  • Neapolitan: “Dunkerque”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dunkerque”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Duinkerken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunkerque”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dünkirchen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunkirk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Duinkerken”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunkerque”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dünkirchen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunkirk”
  • Norwegian: “Dunkerque”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dunkerque”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dunquèrca”
  • Oromo: “Daankarki”
  • Ossetian: “Дюнкерк”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਨਕਿਰਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Dunkerque”
  • Persian: “دانکرک”
  • Persian: “دنکرک”
  • Persian: “دونکرک”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Dünkärsch”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Dünkirchen”
  • Picard: “Dinkerk”
  • Picard: “Dunkèk”
  • Picard: “Dunkèke”
  • Picard: “Dunkèque”
  • Piemontese: “Dunkerque”
  • Polish: “Duinkerke”
  • Polish: “Dunkerque”
  • Polish: “Dunkierka”
  • Polish: “Dünkirchen”
  • Pontic: “Δουνκέρκη”
  • Pontic: “Ντανκέρκ”
  • Portuguese: “Dunkerque”
  • Portuguese: “Dunquerque”
  • Prussian: “Dunkerque”
  • Romagnol: “Dunkerque”
  • Romanian: “Dunkerque”
  • Romanian: “Dunkirk”
  • Romansh: “Dunkerque”
  • Russian: “Dunkirk”
  • Russian: “Дюнкерк”
  • Russian: “Дюнкирхен”
  • Sardinian: “Dunkerque”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Dunkerque”
  • Scots: “Dunkirk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dunkerque”
  • Serbian: “Dunkerque”
  • Serbian: “Данкерк”
  • Serbian: “Денкерк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dunkerque”
  • Sicilian: “Dunkerque”
  • Sinhala: “දන්කර්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Dunkerque”
  • Slovenian: “Duinkerke”
  • Slovenian: “Dunkerque”
  • Slovenian: “Dunkirk”
  • Slovenian: “Dunquerk”
  • Slovenian: “Dunquerque”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دونکرک”
  • Spanish: “Duinkerke”
  • Spanish: “Duinkerken”
  • Spanish: “Dunkerque”
  • Spanish: “Dunquerque”
  • Swahili: “Dunkerque”
  • Swahili: “Dunkirk”
  • Swedish: “Dunkerque”
  • Swedish: “Dünkirchen”
  • Swedish: “Dunkirk”
  • Swiss German: “Dünchilche”
  • Swiss German: “Dunkerque”
  • Tagalog: “Duinkerke”
  • Tagalog: “Dunkerque”
  • Tagalog: “Dunkirk”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Dunkerque”
  • Tamil: “டன்கிர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Дюнкерк”
  • Telugu: “డన్కర్క్”
  • Thai: “ดันเคิร์ก”
  • Thai: “ดืงแกร์เกอ”
  • Thai: “เดิงแกร์ก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dünkirchen”
  • Turkish: “Dunkerque”
  • Turkish: “Dunkirk”
  • Ukrainian: “Дюнкерк”
  • Urdu: “ڈنکرک”
  • Uzbek: “Dunkirk (Fransiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Dunkirk”
  • Venetian: “Dunkerque”
  • Vietnamese: “Dunkerque”
  • Vietnamese: “Dunkirk”
  • Vlaams: “Duinkerke”
  • Vlaams: “Dunkerque”
  • Vlaams: “Duunkerke”
  • Volapük: “Dunkerque”
  • Walloon: “Dunkere”
  • Walloon: “Dunkerque”
  • Walloon: “Duunkerke”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dunkerque”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dunkirk”
  • Welsh: “Dunkerque”
  • Welsh: “Dunkirk”
  • Welsh: “Dunquerqe”
  • Western Frisian: “Duinkerken”
  • Western Frisian: “Dúnkerken”
  • Western Frisian: “Dúntsjerk”
  • Wolof: “Dunkerque”
  • Wu Chinese: “Dunkerque”
  • Wu Chinese: “敦刻尔克”
  • Wu Chinese: “顿库厄克”
  • Yiddish: “דונקערק”
  • Yue Chinese: “鄧寇克”
  • Zeeuws: “Duunkerke”
  • Zulu: “Dunkerque”
  • “Dunkerque”

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