Cherbourg - Cherbourg (English spelling)

Japanese: シェルブール - しぇるぶーる(英語表記)Cherbourg
Cherbourg - Cherbourg (English spelling)

A naval port city in the Manche department in northern France. Population 25,370 (1999). Located at the northern tip of the Normandy Peninsula, at the mouth of the River Livet and facing the English Channel, the city has a thriving mechanical engineering industry. It developed as an important naval port on the Atlantic coast and is protected by a long embankment built in the 18th and 19th centuries. Trade with the UK on the opposite shore and North and South America, as well as passenger transport to the UK, is active. There is an airfield in the eastern part of the city. It is also home to an atomic energy research center and a naval arsenal. It was liberated by the Allied forces in June 1944 during World War II, but suffered extensive damage from bombings. Being at the tip of the peninsula, land transport with other cities is hindered, industrialization has been slow, and the population has stagnated.

[Nobuo Takahashi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

フランス北部、マンシュ県の軍港都市。人口2万5370(1999)。ノルマンディー半島北端にあり、リベット川河口に位置してイギリス海峡に臨む。機械工業が盛ん。大西洋岸の重要な軍港として発展し、18~19世紀建設の長い堤防で守られている。対岸のイギリスや南北アメリカとの貿易、またイギリスとの旅客輸送も盛んに行われる。市街地の東部に飛行場を有する。原子力研究所、海軍工廠(こうしょう)の所在地。第二次世界大戦中の1944年6月、連合軍により解放されたが、爆撃による被害は大きかった。半島の先端部にあるため、他都市との陸上輸送に障害があり、工業化の進展が遅れ、人口は停滞している。

[高橋伸夫]

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