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Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët: Intercommunality: ... (French pronunciation: [le lɔʒ maʁʃi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃ˈ ypɛ̃ˈ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The commune contains the two towns of Port-en-Bessin and Huppain.
Donville-les-Bains is located just outside Granville, a port on the Norman coast noted for ferry traffic to the Channel Islands. Rail service is available from Granville to Paris on a regular basis provided by SNCF, the French National Railway.
Map of the Contentin. The Cotentin Peninsula (US: / ˌ k oʊ t ɒ̃ ˈ t æ̃ /, [1] French: [kɔtɑ̃tɛ̃]; Norman: Cotentîn [kotɑ̃ˈtẽ] ⓘ), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France.
Calvados (UK: / ˈ k æ l v ə d ɒ s /, US: /-d oʊ s, ˌ k æ l v ə ˈ d oʊ s, ˌ k ɑː l v ə ˈ-/, French: ⓘ) [needs Norman IPA] is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. [3] It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the Normandy coast. In 2019, it had a population of 694,905. [4]
Location within France. The Pays de Bray (French pronunciation: [pe.i də bʁɛ], literally Land of Bray) is a small (about 750 km 2) natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French departments of the Seine-Maritime and the Oise (historically divided among the Provinces of Normandy and Picardy since 911, now divided among the administrative regions of ...
Aérodrome de Mortagne-au-Perche is an Aerodrome within the commune which is also shared with neighbouring communes of Saint-Hilaire-le-Châtel that opened in 1978. [4] [5] Its ICAO airport code is LFAX. [6] The airport has a 720 metre by 18 metre track that was created in 1985. [7]
The name Vexin is derived from a name for a Gaulish tribe now known as the Veliocasses.They had inhabited the area and made Rouen their most important city.. The Norse nobleman Rollo of Normandy (c. 846 – c. 931), the first ruler of the Viking principality that became Normandy, made several incursions into the western half of the county.