The Canton of Gonfreville-l'Orcher is a canton situated in the Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in 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...

 département and in the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region of northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Geography

An area of light industry

Light industry

Light industry is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented...

, oil refineries and some farming, in the arrondissement of Le Havre

Arrondissement of Le Havre

The arrondissement of Le Havre is an arrondissement of France, located in the Seine-Maritime département, in the Haute-Normandie région...

, centred on the town of Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l’Orcher is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:An industrial town based around an ancient village situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, in between the D982 and D9015 roads...

. The altitude varies from 0m (Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l’Orcher is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:An industrial town based around an ancient village situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, in between the D982 and D9015 roads...

) to 107m (Gainneville

Gainneville

Gainneville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A small farming town situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D6015 and D111 roads....

) for an average altitude of 79m.

Composition

The Canton of Gonfreville-l'Orcher comprises 3 communes and a total of 20,825 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
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| Gainneville

Gainneville

Gainneville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A small farming town situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D6015 and D111 roads....

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| Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l'Orcher

Gonfreville-l’Orcher is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:An industrial town based around an ancient village situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Le Havre, in between the D982 and D9015 roads...

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Harfleur

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St-Martin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The seventeenth century Hôtel de Ville .* Medieval ramparts * The fifteenth century museums of fishing and of archaeology and history....

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See also

• Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in 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...
  
  
• Arrondissements of the Seine-Maritime department
• Cantons of the Seine-Maritime department
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department