Cherbourg

Cherbourg is a city and previous cooperative arranged at the northern end of the Cotentin promontory in the northwestern French branch of Manche. The city is a Maritime prefecture and sub-prefecture of la Manche. Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and previous collective arranged at the northern end of the Cotentin landmass in the northwestern French division of Manche. It is a subprefecture of its area of expertise, and was formally shaped when the collective of Cherbourg retained Octeville on 28 February 2000. On 1 January 2016, it was converged into the new cooperative of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. The city is a Maritime prefecture and sub-prefecture of la Manche. Because of its association, it is the most populated city in its area of expertise with 37,121 inhabitants making it the primary city of the office before the Saint-Lo prefecture and the second in the locale after Caen. The flanking cooperatives are Tourlaville toward the east, Equeurdreville-Hainneville toward the west, La Glacerie toward the south and southeast, Martinvast toward the south, and Nouainville and Sideville toward the south-west.

Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is flanked by the ocean. The development of the port of exchange, from 1769, joined by the preoccupation of the Divette the mouth of which was situated at the present exit of Port Chantereyne and the Trottebec from the region of Tourlaville assembled in the trench de retenue, along the Avenue de Paris and Rue du Val-de-Saire. The floods of the Bucaille and the Fay, which watered the Croute du Homet, vanished in the 18th century amid the development of the military port.