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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]
Map of the new municipality and its municipalities. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Carentan (the seat), Angoville-au-Plain, Houesville, and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. [3] On 1 January 2017 Brévands, Les Veys and Saint-Pellerin joined the commune of Carentan. [4]
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Vierville ( French pronunciation: [vjɛʁvil] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .
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.
Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands). It covers 30,627 square kilometres (11,825 sq mi). [3] Its population in 2017 was 3,499,280. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans; [1] the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language.
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.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Brévands ( French pronunciation: [bʁevɑ̃] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France .
The main cities (population given from the 1999 census) are Rouen (518,316 in the metropolitan area), the capital since 2016 of the province and formerly of Upper Normandy; Caen (420,000 in the metropolitan area) and formerly the capital of Lower Normandy; Le Havre (296,773 in the metropolitan area); and Cherbourg (117,855 in the metropolitan ...