Caen

Caen is a collective in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados office. The city appropriate has 108,365 occupants starting at 2012, while its urban region has 420,000, making Caen the biggest city in previous Lower Normandy. It is likewise the third biggest region in all of Normandy after Le Havre and Rouen and the third biggest city legitimate in Normandy, after Rouen and Le Havre. The metropolitan region of Caen, thusly, is the second biggest in Normandy after that of Rouen, the 21st biggest in France.

It is found 15 kilometers inland from the English Channel, 200 kilometers north-west of Paris, and associated with the south of England by the Caen-Ouistreham- Portsmouth ship course. Caen is situated in the focal point of its northern area, and it is a focal point of political, financial and social power. Found a couple of miles from the coast, the arrival shorelines, the clamoring resorts of Deauville and Cabourg, Norman Switzerland and Pays d'Auge, Caen is regularly viewed as the prime example of Normandy.

Caen is known for its chronicled structures worked amid the rule of William the Conqueror, who was covered there, and for the Battle for Caen—overwhelming battling that occurred in and around Caen amid the Battle of Normandy in 1944, decimating a significant part of the city. The city has now protected the memory by raising a commemoration and an exhibition hall committed to harmony, the Memorial de Caen.