Caen
Caen is the capital of the Calvados department in northern France. With a population of 115,000, it is the largest city in Lower Normandy.Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: City with 107,000 residents
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Postal codes: 14000 and 14000
Notable Places in the Area
Caen station
Caen, Gare de l'Ouest or Gare Calvados, is the main and now only station serving the city of Caen, Normandy, France.Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen
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The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former Benedictine monastery in the French city of Caen, Normandy, dedicated to Saint Stephen.
Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer
49°10′59″N 0°22′10″W / 49.18306°N 0.36944°W The communauté urbaine Caen la Mer is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Caen.Localities in the Area
Hérouville-Saint-Clair
Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hérouville-Saint-Clair is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Mondeville
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Mondeville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy région in northwestern France.
Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe
Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Caen
- Categories: commune of France, big city and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Caen, Calvados, Lower Normandy, Normandy, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.1813° or 49° 10' 53" northLongitude
-0.3636° or 0° 21' 49" westPopulation
107,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)IATA airport code
CFRUnited Nations Location Code
FR CFROpen Location Code
8CXX5JJP+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 412476714OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3029241Wikidata ID
Q41185Caen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Caen
- Albanian: Caen
- Amharic: ካየን
- Arabic: Caen
- Arabic: كان
- Arabic: كاين
- Aragonese: Caen
- Armenian: Կան
- Arpitan: Caen
- Asturian: Caen
- Aymara: Caen
- Azerbaijani: Kann
- Bambara: Caen
- Basque: Caen
- Bavarian: Caen
- Belarusian: Кан
- Bengali: কঁ
- Breton: Caen
- Bulgarian: Каен
- Bulgarian: Кан
- Cajun French: Caen
- Catalan: Caen
- Cebuano: Caen
- Chechen: Кан
- Chinese: Caen
- Chinese: 卡昂
- Chinese: 卡昂市
- Chinese: 康城
- Chuvash: Кан (Норманди)
- Chuvash: Кан
- Corsican: Caen
- Croatian: Caen
- Czech: Caen
- Danish: Caen
- Dimli (individual language): Caen
- Dutch: Caen
- Egyptian Arabic: كاين
- Esperanto: Caen
- Esperanto: Kaeno
- Estonian: Caen
- Faroese: Caen
- Finnish: Caen
- French: Caen
- French: Caen-la-Mer
- French: Caennais
- French: la Venise normande
- Friulian: Caen
- Galician: Caen
- Georgian: კანი
- German: Caen
- Greek: Καέν
- Gujarati: કેન
- Hausa: Caen
- Hebrew: קן
- Hindi: कौं
- Hungarian: Caen
- Icelandic: Caen
- Ido: Caen
- Indonesian: Caen
- Interlingua: Caen
- Interlingue: Caen
- Irish: Caen
- Italian: Caen
- Jamaican Creole English: Caen
- Japanese: カーン
- Javanese: Caen
- Kabyle: Caen
- Kalaallisut: Caen
- Kannada: ಕೇನ್
- Kazakh: Кан
- Kongo: Caen
- Korean: 캉
- Kurdish: Caen
- Ladin: Caen
- Ladino: Caen
- Latin (Historic): Cadum
- Latin (Historic): Cadumum
- Latin (Historic): Catomum
- Latin: Cadomum
- Latin: Caen
- Latvian: Caen
- Latvian: Kāna
- Ligurian: Caen
- Limburgan: Caen
- Lithuanian: Kanas
- Low German: Caen
- Luxembourgish: Caen
- Macedo-Romanian: Caen
- Macedonian: Кан
- Mainfränkisch: Caen
- Malagasy: Caen
- Malay: Caen
- Marathi: कां
- Marathi: केन
- Mazanderani: کان
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (Historic): Can
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (Historic): Canz
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (Historic): Caon
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (Historic): Cham
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (Historic): Kadunum
- Min Nan Chinese: Caen
- Minangkabau: Caen
- Moksha: Кан
- Moroccan Arabic: كا
- Narom: Caem
- Narom: Caen
- Narom: Caën
- Narom: Kaem
- Neapolitan: Caen
- Northern Frisian: Caen
- Norwegian: Caen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Caen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Caen
- Occitan (post 1500): Caen
- Occitan (post 1500): Can
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Caðum
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Caþum
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Caam
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Caem
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Cahem
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Chaam
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Chaem
- Old French (842-ca. 1400) (Historic): Quaam
- Ossetian: Кан
- Pampanga: Caen
- Papiamento: Caen
- Persian: کان
- Picard: Caen
- Piemontese: Caen
- Polish: Caen
- Pontic: Καέν
- Portuguese: Caen
- Prussian: Caen
- Romagnol: Caen
- Romanian: Caen
- Romansh: Caen
- Russian: Caen
- Russian: Кан
- Sardinian: Caen
- Scots: Caen
- Scottish Gaelic: Caen
- Serbian: Caen
- Serbian: Каен
- Serbian: Кан
- Serbo-Croatian: Caen
- Serbo-Croatian: Kan
- Sicilian: Caen
- Silesian: Caen
- Sinhala: කයින්
- Slovak: Caen
- Slovenian: Caen
- South Azerbaijani: کان
- Spanish: Caen
- Spanish: Caen Francia
- Swahili: Caen
- Swedish: Caen
- Swiss German: Caen
- Tamil: கன்
- Tatar: Кан
- Telugu: కేఎన్
- Thai: Caen
- Thai: ก็อง
- Thai: ค็อง
- Turkish: Caen
- Ukrainian: Кальвадос
- Ukrainian: Кан
- Urdu: کان
- Urdu: کاں
- Uzbek: Caen
- Uzbek: Kan
- Venetian: Caen
- Vietnamese: Caen
- Vlaams: Caen
- Volapük: Caen
- Walloon: Caen
- Waray (Philippines): Caen
- Welsh: Caen
- Western Frisian: Caen
- Western Panjabi: کین
- Wolof: Caen
- Wu Chinese: 卡昂
- Yue Chinese: 康城
- Zulu: Caen
- Historic: Cathim
Other Places Named Caen
In the Area
- Saint-JeanQuarter
- VaugueuxNeighbourhood
- Saint-GillesQuarter
- VaucellesQuarter
- Saint-OuenQuarter
- La Haie VignéQuarter
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