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Coordinates: 49°19′59″N 0°25′14″W / 49.3331°N 0.4206°W
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Commune of Bernières-sur-Mer |
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| Notre Dame in Bernières | |
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  Bernières-sur-Mer
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| Country | France |
| Region | Basse-Normandie |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Douvres-la-Délivrande |
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| Elevation | 0–55 m (0–180 ft) (avg. 4 m/13 ft) |
| Land area1 | 7.66 km2 (2.96 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 2,373 (2006) |
| - Density | 310 /km² (800 /sq mi) |
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| 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: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Bernières-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western 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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