France · In the atlas, not yet written up
Utah Beach
Normandy · France
Barely written up
We hold this beach's name and position, and not much else.
Nobody has written Utah Beach up yet, and there is no photograph of it here. If you have stood on it, you probably know more about it than this page does.
The short version, from the cited sources
Utah, commonly known as Utah Beach, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), during World War II.
- Country
- France (FR)
- Region
- Europe
- Coast
- On the Baie de la Seine
- Administrative area
- Normandy
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-12-10
Names in the record
Utah Beach
- Pantai Utah
- Playa de Utah
- ユタ・ビーチ
Awaiting editorial review
Not yet recorded for this beach
- Sand color and composition
- Water and swimming character
- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
Source position
49.41595, -1.17464
The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.
Direct provenance
Sources behind this record
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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