Calvados is also :

• 49 cantons and 706 municipalities (communes), including 232 in predominantly rural areas

• 12 locally important economic centres
  • Caen la mer urban area
    (28 municipalities, 221,000 inhabitants).
    The city of Caen itself, capital of Lower Normandy, has a population of 114,000
    
  • Bayeux : 14 961 inhabitants
  • Cabourg/Dives sur mer : 9 335 inhabitants
  • Condé sur Noireau : 5 820 inhabitants
  • Deauville / Trouville : 9 781 inhabitants
  • Falaise : 8 434 inhabitants
  • Honfleur : 8 175 inhabitants
  • Lisieux : 23 171 inhabitants
  • Pont-L’Evêque : 4 132 inhabitants
  • Saint-Pierre sur Dives / Mézidon Canon : 8 687 inhabitants
  • Villers Bocage : 2 902 inhabitants
  • Vire : 12 793 inhabitants
     
    
• 21 towns and villages are located in the Cotentin and Bessin Wetlands National Park, which includes more than 18 hectares in Calvados
   
• 3 nature reserves totalling 1,912 hectares
   
• 8 conservation areas

(Source : Tableaux de l’économie bas normande 2006, INSEE)