Welcome to Dunkirk!
Dunkirk (French: Dunkerque, Dutch: Duinkerke) is a town in the region of Hauts-de-France in France. The town is a historic resort, 10 km from the border with Belgium. If you're coming from the UK, it's a great place to start your journey further into the Continent, but also a great holiday destination on its own, featuring historic beaches, shopping locations, and many places to eat local food, which is an interesting fusion of traditional Flemish cooking and seafood. It is famous as the site of the Dunkirk Evacuation during World War II, when, over eight days, a fleet of British, Canadian, and French Navy and a huge assortment of civilian vessels, 900 boats in all, evacuated 338,000 British and French soldiers who had been encircled on land by German armies.
Dunkirk (French: Dunkerque) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France. It lies 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border. It has the third-largest French harbour. The population of the commune at the 2016 census was 91,412.