Le Havre

Le Havre is a port city at the mouth of the Seine, on the English Channel in the region of Upper Normandy in . Listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site for its reconstructed city centre, Le Havre is challenging its reputation as an industrial city.
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  • Type: City with 166,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Seine-Maritime, France
  • Also known as: “Havre (Le)”, “Havre-de-Grâce”, and “Le Havre-Marat(1793-1795)”
  • Postal codes: 76600, 76600, 76610, 76610, 76620, and 76620

Places of Interest

Highlights include Le Havre station and Museum of Modern Art André Malraux - MuMa.

Railway station
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is the main railway station located in Le Havre, , . The station was opened on 22 March 1847 and is located on the Paris–Le Havre railway.

Museum
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The is a museum in Le Havre, containing one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings.

Church
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St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre is a Roman Catholic church in Le Havre, . From 1945 to 1964, the City of Le Havre commissioned Auguste Perret and his studio to head the rebuilding of the entire city after it had been completely destroyed by the British during World War II.

Le Havre

Latitude
49.4939° or 49° 29′ 38″ north
Longitude
0.108° or 0° 6′ 29″ east
Population
166,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Grasville-Lheure”
Name during the French Revolution
“Saint-Jean-sur-Mer”
IATA airport code
LEH
United Nations Location Code
FR LEH
Open location code
8FX2F4V5+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1909836591
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3003796
Wiki­data ID
Q42810
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Le Havre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Le Havre”
  • Albanian: “Le Havre”
  • Arabic: “لو هافر”
  • Aragonese: “Le Havre”
  • Armenian: “Հավր”
  • Arpitan: “Le Havre”
  • Asturian: “Le Havre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Havr”
  • Balinese: “Le Havre”
  • Bambara: “Le Havre”
  • Bashkir: “Гавр”
  • Basque: “Le Havre”
  • Bavarian: “Le Havre”
  • Belarusian: “Гаўр”
  • Bengali: “ল্য আভ্র”
  • Breton: “An Havr Nevez”
  • Breton: “An Havr-Nevez”
  • Breton: “Le Havre”
  • Bulgarian: “Льо Хавър”
  • Bulgarian: “Хавър”
  • Cajun French: “Le Havre”
  • Catalan: “L’Havre”
  • Catalan: “Le Havre”
  • Cebuano: “Havre”
  • Cebuano: “Le Havre”
  • Central Kurdish: “لو ھاڤرە”
  • Chechen: “ГавгӀ”
  • Chinese: “Le Havre”
  • Chinese: “利哈佛”
  • Chinese: “勒哈弗爾”
  • Chinese: “勒阿弗尔”
  • Chinese: “夏華”
  • Chuvash: “Гавр”
  • Corsican: “Le Havre”
  • Croatian: “Le Havre”
  • Czech: “Le Havre”
  • Danish: “Le Havre”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Le Havre”
  • Dutch: “Le Havre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لو هافر”
  • Esperanto: “Havro”
  • Esperanto: “La Havro”
  • Esperanto: “Le Havre”
  • Estonian: “Le Havre”
  • Extremaduran: “Le Havre”
  • Faroese: “Le Havre”
  • Finnish: “Le Havre”
  • French: “Havre (Le)”
  • French: “Le Havre”
  • French: “Le port du Havre”
  • French: “Le port de Grâce” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Le Havre”
  • Galician: “Le Havre”
  • Galician: “O Havre”
  • Georgian: “ჰავრი”
  • German: “Hafen von Le Havre”
  • German: “Le Havre”
  • Greek: “Χάβρη”
  • Gujarati: “લે હાવ્રે”
  • Hausa: “Le Havre”
  • Hebrew: “לה האבר”
  • Hebrew: “לה הבר”
  • Hebrew: “לה-האבר”
  • Hebrew: “לה-הבר”
  • Hindi: “ल हावरे”
  • Hungarian: “Le Havre”
  • Icelandic: “Le Havre”
  • Ido: “Le Havre”
  • Indonesian: “Le Havre”
  • Interlingua: “Le Havre”
  • Interlingue: “Le Havre”
  • Irish: “Le Havre”
  • Italian: “Le Havre”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Le Havre”
  • Japanese: “ル・アーヴル”
  • Japanese: “ル・アーブル”
  • Japanese: “ルアーヴル”
  • Japanese: “ルアーブル”
  • Javanese: “Le Havre”
  • Kabyle: “Le Havre”
  • Kalaallisut: “Le Havre”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾ ಹಾವ್ರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆ ಹ್ಯಾವ್ರೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Le Havre”
  • Kazakh: “Гавр”
  • Kirghiz: “Гавр”
  • Kongo: “Le Havre”
  • Korean: “르 아브르”
  • Korean: “르아브르”
  • Kurdish: “Le Havre”
  • Ladin: “Le Havre”
  • Latin: “Franciscopolis”
  • Latin: “Portus Gratiae”
  • Latvian: “Havra”
  • Latvian: “Le Havre”
  • Ligurian: “Le Havre”
  • Limburgan: “Le Havre”
  • Lingala: “Le Havre”
  • Lithuanian: “Havras”
  • Lithuanian: “Le Havre”
  • Low German: “Le Havre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Le Havre”
  • Macedonian: “Авр”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Le Havre”
  • Malagasy: “Le Havre”
  • Malay: “Le Havre”
  • Maltese: “Le Havre”
  • Marathi: “ला आव्र”
  • Mazanderani: “لو اور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Le Havre”
  • Minangkabau: “Le Havre”
  • Narom: “Lé Hâvre”
  • Neapolitan: “Le Havre”
  • Northern Frisian: “Le Havre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Le Havre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Franciscopolis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Le Havre-de-Grâce”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Le Havre”
  • Norwegian: “Le Havre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Le Havre”
  • Ossetian: “Гавр”
  • Papiamento: “Le Havre”
  • Persian: “لو آور”
  • Persian: “لو اور”
  • Picard: “Le Havre”
  • Piemontese: “Le Havre”
  • Polish: “Hawr”
  • Polish: “Le Havre”
  • Pontic: “Χάβρη”
  • Portuguese: “Le Havre”
  • Prussian: “Le Havre”
  • Quechua: “Le Havre”
  • Romagnol: “Le Havre”
  • Romanian: “Le Havre”
  • Romansh: “Le Havre”
  • Russian: “Havre”
  • Russian: “Гавр”
  • Sardinian: “Le Havre”
  • Scots: “Le Havre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Le Havre”
  • Serbian: “Hawr”
  • Serbian: “Le Havre”
  • Serbian: “Авр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Le Havre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Авр”
  • Sicilian: “Le Havre”
  • Silesian: “Le Havre”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙ හව්රේ”
  • Slovak: “Le Havre”
  • Slovenian: “Le Havre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لو آور”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لو اور”
  • Spanish: “El Havre”
  • Spanish: “Le Havre”
  • Swahili: “Le Havre”
  • Swedish: “Le Havre de Notre Dame de Grâce”
  • Swedish: “Le Havre”
  • Swedish: “Le-Hâvre”
  • Swiss German: “Le Havre”
  • Tamil: “லே ஆவர்”
  • Tatar: “Һавр”
  • Telugu: “లే హవరే”
  • Thai: “Le Havre”
  • Thai: “เลออาฟวร์”
  • Turkish: “La Havre”
  • Turkish: “Le Havre”
  • Twi: “Le Havre”
  • Ukrainian: “Гавр”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле Авр”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле-Авр”
  • Urdu: “لو آور”
  • Uzbek: “Gavr”
  • Venetian: “Le Havre”
  • Vietnamese: “Le Havre”
  • Vlaams: “Le Havre”
  • Volapük: “Le Havre”
  • Walloon: “Le Havre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Le Havre”
  • Welsh: “Le Havre”
  • Western Frisian: “Le Havre”
  • Western Panjabi: “لی ہاور”
  • Wolof: “Le Havre”
  • Wu Chinese: “勒阿弗尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “Le Havre”
  • Yue Chinese: “勒阿弗爾”
  • Yue Chinese: “夏華”
  • Yue Chinese: “廈威”
  • Zeeuws: “Le Havre”
  • Zulu: “Le Havre”
  • “Le Havre”

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