Lower Normandy
Lower Normandy comprises the western half of Normandy in northern France. Administratively, the region was divided into three departments whose borders are shown on the map: Manche on the west, Calvados east of that along the coast, and Orne inland on the south side.Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Caen
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Caen is the capital of the Calvados department in northern France.
Mont Saint-Michel
Mont Saint-Michel is a small UNESCO World Heritage site on an island just off the coast near Avranches in the region of Lower Normandy in northern France.Destinations
Saint-Lô
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Saint-Lô is the capital of the Manche department in Normandy.
Avranches
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Avranches is a town on the coast in the south-west corner of Normandy, at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. Mont Saint-Michel is quite nearby.
Honfleur
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Honfleur is a town surrounding a beautiful little 17th-century harbour in Calvados, Lower Normandy.
Argentan
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Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France.
Coutances
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Coutances is a town on the Cotentin Peninsula of Lower Normandy, south of Cherbourg.
Deauville
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Deauville is a fashionable seaside resort in the Calvados département of the region of Lower Normandy in France.
Falaise
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Falaise is a town on the Ante River in the French region of Lower Normandy, south of the regional center Caen.
Arromanches-les-Bains
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Arromanches-les-Bains is a seaside village near Bayeux in Lower Normandy.
Granville
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Granville is a commune in the Manche department and region of Normandy, northwestern France.
Vire
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Vire is a town and a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Ouistreham
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Ouistreham is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy region in northwestern France.
Trouville-sur-Mer
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Trouville-sur-Mer is a popular tourist attraction and fishing village in Lower Normandy bordering Deauville.
Sallenelles
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Sallenelles is a village in Calvados départment of Lower Normandy, France.
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
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Cherbourg is a port town at the north end of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France.
Sainte-Mère-Église
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Sainte-Mère-Église is in Normandy, near the base of the Cherbourg peninsula.
Lower Normandy
- Type: region of France with 1,480,000 residents
- Description: former administrative region of France
- Neighbors: Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Pays de la Loire and Upper Normandy
- Location: Normandy, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
49° northLongitude of centre
-1° or 1° westPopulation
1,480,000Wikidata ID
Q16954Lower Normandy Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Basse-Normandie
- Albanian: Normandia e Poshtme
- Arabic: Basse-Normandie
- Arabic: باس نورماندي
- Arabic: نرمندية السفلى
- Aragonese: Baixa Normandía
- Armenian: Ներքին Նորմանդիա
- Armenian: Ստորին Նորմանդիա
- Arpitan: Bâssa-Normandie
- Asturian: Baxa Normandía
- Aymara: Basse-Normandie suyu
- Azerbaijani: Aşağı Normandiya
- Azerbaijani: Bəs-Normandi
- Basque: Normandia Beherea
- Belarusian: Ніжняя Нармандыя
- Belarusian: рэгіён Ніжняя Нармандыя
- Bengali: বাস্-নর্মঁদি
- Bosnian: Donja Normandija
- Breton: Normandi-Izel
- Bulgarian: Долна Нормандия
- Catalan: Baixa Normandia
- Cebuano: Basse-Normandie
- Central Kurdish: نۆرماندی خواروو
- Chechen: Лаха НогӀманди
- Chinese: Basse-Normandie
- Chinese: 下諾曼底
- Chinese: 下諾曼第
- Chinese: 下诺曼底
- Chuvash: Анат Норманди
- Croatian: Donja Normandija
- Czech: Dolní Normandie
- Danish: Basse-Normandie
- Dimli (individual language): Normandiya Cêrêne
- Dutch: Basse-Normandie
- Esperanto: Malsupra Normandio
- Estonian: Alam-Normandia
- Finnish: Basse-Normandie
- French: Basse-Normandie
- French: Basse Normandie
- Galician: Baixa Normandía
- Georgian: ქვემო ნორმანდია
- German: Basse-Normandie
- Greek: Κάτω Νορμανδία
- Hakka Chinese: Hâ Normandy
- Hausa: Hâ Normandy
- Hebrew: נורמנדי תחתית
- Hungarian: Alsó-Normandia
- Ido: Basa Normandia
- Indonesian: Normandy Hilir
- Italian: Bassa Normandia
- Japanese: バス=ノルマンディー地域圏
- Japanese: 下ノルマンディー地方
- Javanese: Basse-Normandie
- Kazakh: Төменгі Нормандия
- Korean: 바스노르망디
- Kurdish: Basse-Normandie
- Ladino: Baja Normandia
- Latin: Normannia Inferior
- Latvian: Lejasnormandija
- Lithuanian: Žemutinė Normandija
- Lombard: Basse-Normandie
- Luxembourgish: Basse-Normandie
- Macedo-Romanian: Basse-Normandie
- Macedonian: Долна Нормандија
- Malay: Basse-Normandie
- Marathi: बास-नोर्मंदी
- Min Nan Chinese: Basse-Normandie
- Mingrelian: თუდოლენი ნორმანდია
- Mongolian: Доод Норманди
- Mongolian: Доор Норманд
- Narom: Basse-Normaundie
- Nepali: तल्लो नोर्मान्डी
- Northern Luri: نرماندی لاهار
- Northern Sami: Basse-Normandie
- Norwegian: Basse-Normandie
- Norwegian Bokmål: Basse-Normandie
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Basse-Normandie
- Occitan (post 1500): Bassa Normandia
- Ossetian: Дæллаг Норманди
- Pampanga: Basse-Normandie
- Panjabi: ਹੇਠਲੀ ਨੋਰਮਾਂਦੀ
- Persian: نرماندی سفلی
- Piemontese: Bassa Normandìa
- Polish: Dolna Normandia
- Portuguese: Baixa Normandia
- Quechua: Basse-Normandie
- Romanian: Normandia Inferioară
- Romanian: Normandia de Jos
- Russian: Нижняя Нормандия
- Scots: Lawer Normandy
- Scottish Gaelic: Basse-Normandie
- Serbian: Доња Нормандија
- Serbo-Croatian: Donja Normandija
- Sicilian: Vascia Nurmannia
- Slovak: Dolná Normandia
- Slovenian: Spodnja Normandija
- South Azerbaijani: یوخاری نورماندی
- Spanish: Baja Normandia
- Spanish: Baja Normandía
- Swahili: Basse-Normandie
- Swedish: Basse-Normandie
- Tagalog: Ibabang Normandia
- Thai: แคว้นบัส-นอร์ม็องดี
- Turkish: Aşağı Normandiya
- Ukrainian: Нижня Нормандія
- Urdu: زیریں نورمنڈی
- Venetian: Basa Normandia
- Vietnamese: Basse-Normandie
- Waray (Philippines): Basse-Normandie
- Welsh: Basse-Normandie
- Western Frisian: Leech-Normandje
- Western Frisian: Neder-Normandje
- Western Panjabi: تھلواں نارمنڈی
- Wu Chinese: 下诺曼底
- Yue Chinese: 下諾曼第
- Ala-Normandia
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Lower Normandy. Photo: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0.