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The largest town on the peninsula is Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, a major cross-channel port on the north coast, with a population of approximately 120,000. 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
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.
Population (2021) [1] 186,735 ... It lies entirely on the Cotentin Peninsula and has 144 communes. [2] Its population is 186,735 ... Statistics; Cookie statement ...
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Manche ( / m ɒ̃ ʃ / , French pronunciation: [mɑ̃ʃ] ⓘ ; Norman : Maunche ) is a coastal French département in Normandy on the English Channel , which is known as La Manche , literally "the sleeve", in French.
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 .
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 ...
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.