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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.
Sainte-Mère-Église lies in a flat area of the Cotentin Peninsula known locally as le Plain (as opposed to the standard French term la plaine). [6] The Plain is bounded on the west by the Merderet River and by the English channel to the east, and by the communes of Valognes and Carentan to the north and south, respectively.
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 .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 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.
A map of the Cotentin peninsula, with Cherbourg to the north Cherbourg is located at the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula , in the department of Manche , of which it is a subprefecture . At the time of the 1999 census the city of Cherbourg had an area of 6.91 square kilometres (2.668 sq mi), while the city of Octeville had an area of 7.35 ...
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]
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Maurice-en-Cotentin ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis ɑ̃ kɔtɑ̃tɛ̃] ; literally "Saint-Maurice in Cotentin ") is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .