Normandy

Normandy is a region of northern , bordering the English Channel. Once the centre of a powerful medieval empire that controlled a significant area of continental Europe, and most of and , Normandy has an incredibly rich heritage to draw from.
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is a department in Normandy. It is the least populated department of Normandy, characterized by forests and extensive pastureland. Apart from the main town of Alençon, there are no major cities, but there are a number of castles, fortresses and manor houses.

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is the capital of the region of Normandy on the River Seine, 135 km northwest from the centre of . The city has a population of 116,000, and its metropolitan area includes some 700,000 inhabitants.

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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, is challenging its reputation as an industrial city.

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is a department of Normandy famous for its apple liqueur. is one of the most visited areas in France because of its seaside resorts which are among the most prestigious in France with their luxurious hotels, casinos, green countryside, manors, castles, the quiet, the chalk cliffs, the typical Norman houses, the history of William the Conqueror, Caen, Bayeux, and Lisieux.

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is a department in Normandy, . The departmentincludes the shore of the English Channel from the Seine estuary to the mouth of the Bresle.

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is a coastal French department in Normandy on the , which is known as La , literally "the sleeve", in French. is bordered by and to the south, and to the east, the to the…

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is a department of Normandy.The main tourist attraction is Giverny where Claude Monet's house and garden can be seen.

Normandy

Latitude of center
49.1991° or 49° 11′ 57″ north
Longitude of center
0.4999° or 0° 29′ 60″ east
Population
3,500,000
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
Geo­Names ID
11071621
Wiki­data ID
Q18677875
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Normandy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Normandië”
  • Albanian: “Normandia”
  • Amharic: “ኖርማንዲ”
  • Arabic: “نرمندية”
  • Arabic: “نورماندي”
  • Aragonese: “Normandía”
  • Armenian: “Նորմանդիա”
  • Asturian: “Normandía”
  • Azerbaijani: “Normandiya”
  • Basque: “Normandia”
  • Belarusian: “Нармандыя (рэгіён)”
  • Belarusian: “Нармандыя”
  • Belarusian: “рэгіён Нармандыя”
  • Bengali: “নরমঁদি”
  • Breton: “Normandi”
  • Bulgarian: “Нормандия”
  • Burmese: “နောရ်မံဒီတိုင်း”
  • Catalan: “Normandia”
  • Chinese: “诺曼底大区”
  • Chinese: “諾曼第大區”
  • Croatian: “Normandija (francuska regija)”
  • Croatian: “Normandija”
  • Czech: “Normandie”
  • Danish: “Normandie”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Normandiya”
  • Dutch: “Normandie (regio)”
  • Dutch: “Normandie”
  • Dutch: “Normandië”
  • Esperanto: “Normandio”
  • Estonian: “Normandia piirkond”
  • Estonian: “Normandia”
  • Finnish: “Normandia”
  • French: “Normandie”
  • French: “région normande”
  • French: “région Normandie”
  • Galician: “Normandía”
  • Georgian: “ნორმანდია”
  • German: “Normandie”
  • Greek: “Νορμανδία”
  • Hausa: “Normandie”
  • Hebrew: “נורמנדי”
  • Hindi: “नोर्मंडी”
  • Hungarian: “Normandia”
  • Icelandic: “Normandí”
  • Icelandic: “Normandie”
  • Ido: “Normandia”
  • Indonesian: “Normandia”
  • Interlingue: “Normandie”
  • Irish: “An Normainn”
  • Italian: “Normandia”
  • Japanese: “ノルマンディー地域圏”
  • Japanese: “ノルマンディー地方”
  • Javanese: “Normandy”
  • Jèrriais: “Normaundie”
  • Kazakh: “Нормандия (аймақ)”
  • Kazakh: “Нормандия”
  • Kirghiz: “Нормандия”
  • Korean: “노르망디”
  • Kurdish: “Normandî”
  • Ladin: “Normandia”
  • Latin: “Normannia”
  • Latvian: “Normandija”
  • Limburgan: “Normandie”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Normandia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Normandie”
  • Macedonian: “Нормандија”
  • Malay: “Normandia”
  • Maltese: “Normandie”
  • Maltese: “Normandija”
  • Manx: “Normandie”
  • Manx: “Normandy”
  • Manx: “yn Norman”
  • Manx: “Yn Norman”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्मंदी (प्रशासकीय प्रदेश)”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्मंदी”
  • Mongolian: “Норманди”
  • Narom: “Normaundie”
  • Narom: “Nouormandie”
  • Narom: “Nouormaundie”
  • Northern Frisian: “Normandie”
  • Northern Frisian: “Normandii”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Normandie”
  • Norwegian: “Normandie”
  • Novial: “Normandie (Administrativa Region)”
  • Novial: “Normandie”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Normandia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Normandig”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþmannaland”
  • Oromo: “Normandy”
  • Ossetian: “Норманди”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਰਮੰਡੀ”
  • Persian: “نرماندی”
  • Piemontese: “Normandìa”
  • Polish: “Normandia”
  • Portuguese: “Normandia, França”
  • Portuguese: “Normandia”
  • Portuguese: “Normandie”
  • Pushto: “نورمنډی”
  • Romanian: “Normandia (regiune administrativă)”
  • Romanian: “Normandia”
  • Russian: “Нормандия”
  • Sardinian: “Normandia (regione amministrativa)”
  • Sardinian: “Normandia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Normandija (regija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Normandija”
  • Sindhi: “نارمنڊي (انتظامي علائقو)”
  • Sindhi: “نارمنڊي”
  • Slovak: “Normandia”
  • Slovenian: “Normandija”
  • Somali: “Normandy”
  • Spanish: “Normandia”
  • Spanish: “Normandía”
  • Spanish: “Región de Normandía”
  • Swahili: “Normandy”
  • Swedish: “Normandie”
  • Swiss German: “Normandie”
  • Tajik: “Нормандия”
  • Tamil: “நார்மாண்டி”
  • Tatar: “Нормандия”
  • Thai: “แคว้นนอร์ม็องดี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Normandie”
  • Turkish: “Normandiya”
  • Ukrainian: “Нормандія”
  • Urdu: “نارمنڈی”
  • Urdu: “نورمینڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Normandiya”
  • Venetian: “Normandia”
  • Vietnamese: “Normandie”
  • Vlaams: “Normandië”
  • Welsh: “Normandi”
  • Welsh: “Normandie”
  • Western Frisian: “Normandje”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺曼底大区”
  • Yue Chinese: “諾曼第”
  • Zeeuws: “Normandie”
  • “ma Nomansi”

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