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La Glacerie
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La Glacerie was a delegated commune in France, situated within the arrondissement of Cherbourg in the Manche department. It shared borders with Tourlaville, Brix, Digosville, and Le Mesnil-au-Val. The area covered 18.7 square kilometers, with an elevation of 178 meters above sea level. Its postal code was 50470, and it was associated with the canton of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin-2.
The population of La Glacerie was 6,142. The commune was dissolved on December 31, 2015, and was replaced by Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. A townhall structure is located in the area, which is part of the Normandie region.
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Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to La Glacerie, and connects out to France, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under the topic Former communes of Manche.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 5,117
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Normandy
- Department
- Manche
- Arrondissement
- Cherbourg
- Canton
- Cherbourg-Octeville-2
- Commune
- Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
- Area
- 18.7 km (7.2 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 5,882
- Density
- 315/km (815/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 5–178 m (16–584 ft) , (avg. 110 m or 360 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- La Glacerie
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Cherbourg
- Population
- 5578
- Area
- 18.7
- Elevation
- 178
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Le Mesnil-au-Val
- Official website
- www.cherbourg.fr/la-glacerie-119.html
- Image
- Hippodrome de La Glacerie.jpg
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- Commons category
- La Glacerie
- postal code
- 50470
- replaced by
- Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin-2
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Encyclopedic overview
La Glacerie ( French pronunciation: [la ɡlas(ə)ʁi]) is a former commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Glacerie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.