Manche
Manche | |
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From top down, left to right: Mont-Saint-Michel, Watchtowers in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Islands of Chausey and Château de Gratot | |
Location of Manche in France | |
| Coordinates: 49°03′N 01°15′E / 49.050°N 1.250°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Prefecture | Saint-Lô |
| Subprefectures | Avranches Cherbourg Coutances |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Jean Morin (DVD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,951 km2 (2,298 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 496,815 |
| • Rank | 53rd |
| • Density | 83/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Demonyms | Manchois, Manchots |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department number | 50 |
| Arrondissements | 4 |
| Constituency | 4 |
| Cantons | 27 |
| Intercommunality | 8 |
| Communes | 446 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
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Manche (/mɒ̃ʃ/, 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. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.