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Carentan (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃tɑ̃]) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France, with a population of about 6,000. It is a former commune in the Manche department. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais. [2]
Carentan-les-Marais is located in the middle of vast marsh remediated and transformed into rich meadows, at the confluence of the Taute and the Douve.The city, at the gateway to the Cotentin Peninsula and the Bay of Veys, is at the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Cotentin and Bessin marshes.
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Appalachians are the two main topographic regions in southern Quebec, while the Canadian Shield occupies most of central and northern Quebec. [2] With an area of 1,542,056 km 2 (595,391 sq mi), it is the largest of Canada's provinces and territories and the tenth largest country subdivision in the ...
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais (before March 2020: canton of Carentan) [3] is an administrative division of the Manche department. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
Laurentian Mountains - Located in the Canadian Shield, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 1166 metres (3,825 ft); Appalachians - Physiographic region consisting of thirteen provinces of which a few are in Quebec: the Atlantic Coast Uplands, Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic, Maritime Acadian Highlands, Maritime Plain, Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains ...
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie , or "City of Mary", [ 19 ] and is now named after Mount Royal , [ 20 ] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [ 21 ]
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