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Manche is a coastal French département in on the , which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by and to the south, and to the east, the …
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is a small UNESCO World Heritage site on an island just off the coast near in the departmentof Manche of in northern .

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is the capital of the Manche department in . As of the 2012 census, population was just under 19,000.

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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.

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is a commune in the Manche department of , France. The chef-lieu of the canton of and seat of the Communes of , Terre et Mer, it is a seaside resort and health resort of Mont Saint-Michel Bay, at the end of the Côte des Havres, a former cod-fishing port and the first shellfish port of France.

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Cherbourg is a port town at the north end of the Cotentin Peninsula in Manche, . Cherbourg is located near the D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed in 1944 during World War II. The town was liberated by American troops shortly after that.

Manche

Population
497,000
Wiki­data ID
Q12589
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Manche” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Manche”
  • Albanian: “Mançë”
  • Albanian: “Manche”
  • Arabic: “المانش”
  • Arabic: “المنش”
  • Aragonese: “A Manga”
  • Armenian: “Մանշ”
  • Arpitan: “Manch·e”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manş (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manş”
  • Basque: “Mantxa”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Манш”
  • Belarusian: “Манш (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Манш”
  • Bengali: “মঁশ”
  • Breton: “Manche”
  • Bulgarian: “Манш”
  • Catalan: “Manche”
  • Cebuano: “Manche”
  • Chechen: “Манш”
  • Chinese: “Manche”
  • Chinese: “芒什”
  • Chinese: “芒什省”
  • Chuvash: “Манш”
  • Czech: “Manche”
  • Dagbani: “Manche”
  • Danish: “Manche”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Manche”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Manş”
  • Dutch: “Manche (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Manche”
  • Esperanto: “Manche”
  • Estonian: “Manche’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Manche”
  • French: “Manche”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Mancha”
  • Galician: “Mancha”
  • Georgian: “მანში”
  • German: “Département Manche”
  • German: “Manche”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Manche”
  • Greek: “Μανς”
  • Gujarati: “માંચે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Manche”
  • Hebrew: “מאנש”
  • Hindi: “मान्शे”
  • Hungarian: “Manche”
  • Indonesian: “Manche”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Manche”
  • Irish: “Manche”
  • Italian: “Manica”
  • Japanese: “マンシュ県”
  • Kannada: “ಮಂಚೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Манш”
  • Kongo: “Manche”
  • Korean: “망슈”
  • Korean: “망슈주”
  • Ladin: “Manche”
  • Ladino: “Manche”
  • Latin: “Manica”
  • Latin: “Oceanus Britannicus”
  • Latvian: “Manša”
  • Limburgan: “Manche”
  • Lithuanian: “Manšas”
  • Lombard: “Manche”
  • Low German: “Manche”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Manche”
  • Macedonian: “Манш”
  • Malagasy: “Manche”
  • Malay: “Manche”
  • Maltese: “Manche”
  • Marathi: “मांच”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Manche”
  • Narom: “Maunche”
  • Northern Frisian: “Manche (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Manche”
  • Northern Sami: “Manche”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Manche”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manche”
  • Norwegian: “Manche”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marga”
  • Ossetian: “Манш”
  • Pampanga: “Manche”
  • Persian: “مانش”
  • Picard: “Manche (départémint)”
  • Picard: “Manche”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Mania”
  • Piemontese: “Mania”
  • Polish: “Manche”
  • Portuguese: “Mancha”
  • Portuguese: “Manche”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Manche”
  • Romanian: “Manche”
  • Russian: “Манш”
  • Scots: “Manche”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Manche”
  • Serbian: “Манш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manche”
  • Sinhala: “මන්චේ”
  • Slovak: “Manche”
  • Slovenian: “Manche”
  • Spanish: “Mancha”
  • Spanish: “Manche”
  • Swahili: “Manche”
  • Swedish: “Manche”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Манш”
  • Tamil: “மாஞ்சே”
  • Telugu: “మాంచి”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดม็องช์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Manche”
  • Turkish: “Manche”
  • Ukrainian: “Манш”
  • Urdu: “مانش”
  • Venetian: “Mànega”
  • Vietnamese: “Manche”
  • Vlaams: “Manche”
  • Volapük: “Manche”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Manche”
  • Welsh: “Manche”
  • Western Frisian: “Manche”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع مانچے”
  • Wu Chinese: “芒什省”
  • Yue Chinese: “芒什”

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