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The population of the peninsula is about 250,000. The western coast of the peninsula, known as the Côte des Îles ("Islands Coast"), faces the Channel Islands. Ferry links serve Carteret and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney from Dielette. Off the east coast of the peninsula lies the island of Tatihou and the Îles Saint-Marcouf.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... It lies entirely on the Cotentin Peninsula and has 144 communes. [2] Its population is 186,735 ...
It was created in January 2017 by the merger of 9 communautés de communes and the 2 new communes Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and La Hague. [1] Its area is 1439.4 km 2. Its population was 179,484 in 2018, of which 79,144 in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin proper. [2]
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁbuʁ ɑ̃ kɔtɑ̃tɛ̃]; Norman: Tchidbouo) is a port city in the department of Manche, Normandy, northwestern France, established on 1 January 2016. [3] The commune takes its name from Cherbourg, the main town of the commune, and from the Cotentin Peninsula.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Valognes ( French pronunciation: [valɔɲ] ) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .
Barneville-Carteret is located on the west coast of the Cotentin Peninsula some 40 km south by south-west of Cherbourg and 10 km north of Portbail.Access to the commune is by highway D650 from Les Moitiers-d'Allonne to the north which passes through the north of the commune and continues south-east following the coast to Le Pont de La Roque.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Coutances ( French pronunciation: [kutɑ̃s] ⓘ ) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
The village is located in the North-East of the Cotentin Peninsula in an area known as Val de Saire, literally the Vale the River Saire. The river used to power several mills including a cotton mill established by Philippe Fontenilliat in 1803. It employed up to 600 workers until it closed in 1858.