Le Havre is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very close to the Prime Meridian. Le Havre is the most populous commune of Upper Normandy, although the total population of the greater Le Havre conurbation is smaller than that of Rouen. After Reims, it is also the second largest subprefecture in France. The name Le Havre means "the harbour" or "the port". Its inhabitants are known as Havrais or Havraises.
Image: Panorama of Le Havre, September 2019
Image: Le Havre (France), so called Fort Chabrol building
Image: Le Havre, France (45744371835)
Image: Church Saint Vincent in Le Havre (France)
Seine-Maritime is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inférieure. It had a population of 1,255,633 in 2019.
Prefecture building of the Seine-Maritime department, in Rouen
Notre-Dame of Rouen
Element of the Atlantic Wall near Fécamp
Entirely destroyed during World War II, Le Havre has been rebuilt in modernist style
