Manche

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Manche
Department
From top down, left to right: Mont-Saint-Michel, Watchtowers in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Islands of Chausey and Château de Gratot
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Manche in France
Coordinates: 49°03′N 01°15′E / 49.050°N 1.250°E / 49.050; 1.250
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Prefecture	Saint-Lô
Subprefectures	Avranches Cherbourg Coutances
Government
• President of the Departmental Council	Jean Morin[1] (DVD)
Area 1
• Total	5,951 km2 (2,298 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	495,508
• Rank	53rd
• Density	83/km2 (220/sq mi)
Demonyms	Manchois, Manchots
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number	50
Arrondissements	4
Constituency	4
Cantons	27
Intercommunality	8
Communes	446
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Manche (/mɒ̃ʃ/, French pronunciation: [mɑ̃ʃ] ^ⓘ; Norman: Maunche) is a coastal French département in Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.^[3]