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Lessay

former commune in Manche, France
Place Commune Of France Q630186

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
commune of France, delegated commune[6]
Official website
www.lessay.fr[17]
Official name
Lessay[26]

Location

Country
France[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 49.218°, -1.531°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
canton of Lessay, Manche, arrondissement of Coutances[2][3][4]
Shares border with
Angoville-sur-Ay, Créances, La Feuillie, Millières, Saint-Germain-sur-Ay, Vesly[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Population and size

Area
+22.23[30]
Elevation above sea level
23 (5–42, n=3)[27][28][29]
Population
2.0k (2.0k–2.3k, n=5)[18][19][20][21][22]

Codes

Postal code
50430[14]
More facts +7
Capital of
canton of Lessay[25]
Archives at
Departmental archives of Manche[15]
Associated electoral district
canton of Créances[31]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
December 31, 2015[16]
Office held by the head of government
Mayor of Lessay[23]
Replaced by
Lessay[24]
Twinned administrative body
Ennigerloh[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lessay fa لسای he לסי uk Лессе zh 莱赛 zh-hant 萊賽
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
140790752
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n85233905
GND ID
4111272-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
647
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15262242d
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--44212
EHESS ID of a French commune
19311
FactGrid item ID
Isaak Gröbli
Freebase ID
/m/0dt4j6
GeoNames ID
2999619
Insee municipality code
50267
Show all 17 identifiers +5
J9U entity ID
987007562478105171
Joconde discovery ID
T115-2723
MusicBrainz area ID
ce1e1446-371f-42b1-88f4-c9e15eea9feb
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1106286
Who's on First ID
101760427

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 6
Créances, La Feuillie, Saint-Germain-sur-Ay, Angoville-sur-Ay, Millières, Vesly
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Manche, arrondissement of Coutances, canton of Lessay
Instance of 2
commune of France, delegated commune
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People born here 2
Georges Desdevises Du Dézert, Jean-François Le Grand
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Manche, canton of Lessay
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Créances
Capital of 1
canton of Lessay
Contained subdivisions 1
Lessay Abbey
Country 1
France
Replaced by 1
Lessay
Twinned administrative body 1
Ennigerloh
← Capital 1
canton of Lessay
← Headquarters location 1
Lessay Abbey
← Replaces 1
Lessay
← Shares border with 1
Angoville-sur-Ay
← Twinned administrative body 1
Ennigerloh
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Summary

Lessay is a commune of France[1].

Related Entities

France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . archives-manche.fr. Retrieved . archives-manche.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Populations légales 2016. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Q133878296. data.geopf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · JackyM59 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay.jpg
    "Changed claim: Image: Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay.jpg"
  2. 14w ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archives at → Departmental archives of Manche
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → canton of Lessay, Manche, arrondissement of Coutances
    Coordinate location → 49.218°, -1.531°
    Dewey Decimal Classification → 2--44212
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Elevation above sea level, Changing http://web.archive.org/ URLs to https (×2). See requ…"
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