Calais
Calais is a city of 73,000 people in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is the closest point on the European mainland to England; Dover lies across the English Channel just 32 km away.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 67,400 residents
- Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
- Postal code: 62100
Notable Places in the Area
The Burghers of Calais
Photo: Auguste Rodin, CC0.
The Burghers of Calais is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies.
Calais Light
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Calais Lighthouse is located in Calais in Pas-de-Calais.
Tour du Guet
Photo: Stefi123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tour du Guet is a 13th-century watchtower in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, northern France.
Calais
- Categories: commune of France, border city, Roman city and locality
- Location: Arrondissement de Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9525° or 50° 57' 9" northLongitude
1.8538° or 1° 51' 14" eastPopulation
67,400Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
CQFUnited Nations Location Code
FR CQFOpen Location Code
9F23XV23+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 26691842OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3029162Wikidata ID
Q6454Calais Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Calais
- Arabic: Calais
- Arabic: كاليه
- Aragonese: Calais
- Armenian: Կալե
- Arpitan: Calais
- Asturian: Calais
- Azerbaijani: Kale
- Bambara: Calais
- Basque: Calais
- Bavarian: Calais
- Belarusian: Кале
- Bengali: কালে
- Bosnian: Calais
- Breton: Calais
- Bulgarian: Кале
- Cajun French: Calais
- Catalan: Calais
- Cebuano: Calais
- Chechen: Кале
- Chinese: Calais
- Chinese: 加來
- Chinese: 加来
- Chinese: 加萊
- Chuvash: Кале
- Corsican: Calais
- Croatian: Calais
- Czech: Calais
- Danish: Calais
- Dimli (individual language): Calais
- Dutch: Calais
- Dutch: Kales
- Egyptian Arabic: كاليه
- English: Dampierre-les-Dunes
- English: Saint-Pierre-lès-Calais (réunie à Calais)
- Esperanto: Calais
- Esperanto: Kalezo
- Estonian: Calais
- Faroese: Calais
- Finnish: Calais
- French: Calais
- French: Dampierre-les-Dunes
- French: Saint-Pierre-lès-Calais (réunie à Calais)
- Friulian: Calais
- Galician: Calais
- German: Calais
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃
- Greek: Καλαί
- Gujarati: કેલેસ
- Hebrew: קאלה
- Hindi: कैले
- Hungarian: Calais
- Icelandic: Calais
- Ido: Calais
- Indonesian: Calais
- Interlingua: Calais
- Interlingue: Calais
- Irish: Calais
- Italian: Calais
- Jamaican Creole English: Calais
- Japanese: カレー
- Kabyle: Calais
- Kalaallisut: Calais
- Kannada: ಕಾಲೈಸ್
- Kazakh: Кале
- Kirghiz: Кале шаары
- Kongo: Calais
- Korean: 칼레
- Kurdish: Calais
- Ladin: Calais
- Latin: Calesium
- Latin: Caletum
- Latvian: Kalē
- Ligurian: Calais
- Limburgan: Kales
- Lithuanian: Kalė
- Low German: Calais
- Luxembourgish: Calais
- Macedonian: Кале
- Mainfränkisch: Calais
- Malagasy: Calais
- Malay: Calais
- Maltese: Calais
- Manx: Calais
- Marathi: कॅले
- Mazanderani: کاله (فرانسه)
- Mazanderani: کاله
- Min Nan Chinese: Calais
- Minangkabau: Calais
- Moksha: Калэ
- Narom: Calais
- Neapolitan: Calais
- Northern Frisian: Calais
- Norwegian: Calais
- Norwegian Bokmål: Calais
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Calais
- Occitan (post 1500): Calais
- Papiamento: Calais
- Persian: کاله
- Picard: Calés
- Piemontese: Calais
- Polish: Calais
- Pontic: Καλαί
- Portuguese: Calais
- Prussian: Calais
- Romagnol: Calais
- Romanian: Calais
- Romansh: Calais
- Russian: Кале
- Sardinian: Calais
- Scots: Calais
- Scottish Gaelic: Calais
- Serbian: Calais
- Serbian: Кале
- Serbo-Croatian: Calais
- Sicilian: Calais
- Silesian: Calais
- Sinhala: කලෙස්
- Slovak: Calais
- Slovenian: Calais
- South Azerbaijani: کاله
- Spanish: Calais
- Swahili: Calais
- Swedish: Calais
- Swiss German: Calais
- Tamil: கலே
- Tatar: Кале
- Telugu: కాలయిస్
- Thai: กาแล
- Tosk Albanian: Calais
- Turkish: Calais
- Ukrainian: Кале
- Urdu: کالے
- Urdu: کیلے
- Uzbek: Kale
- Venetian: Calais
- Vietnamese: Calais
- Vlaams: Calais
- Vlaams: Kales
- Volapük: Calais
- Walloon: Calais
- Waray (Philippines): Calais
- Welsh: Calais
- Western Armenian: Քալիէ
- Western Frisian: Calais
- Western Frisian: Kales
- Western Panjabi: کالے
- Wolof: Calais
- Wu Chinese: 加莱
- Yiddish: קאַלע
- Yiddish: קאלע
- Yue Chinese: 加萊
- Zulu: Calais
- קאלעע
Other Places Named Calais
In the Area
- Calais-NordQuarter
- Fort-NieulayQuarter
- Pont du LeuQuarter
- Petit CourghainQuarter
- Lotissement Les PlatanesNeighbourhood
- Mi-VoixQuarter
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