Bernières-sur-Mer
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| Commune of Bernières-sur-Mer | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 00° 25' 14" W |
| Latitude | 49° 19' 59" N |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Région | Basse-Normandie |
| Département | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Douvres-la-Délivrande |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 0 m–55 m (avg. 4 m) |
| Land area¹ | 7.66 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
1,882 |
| - Density (1999) | 245/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14066/ 14990 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Bernières-sur-Mer is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie région in France.
In 1944, Le Régiment de la Chaudière, a French Canadian infantry unit, came ashore at Bernières-sur-Mer as a part of Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings which began the liberation of France in World War II.
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