Cap de la Hague

Beaumont-Hague (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃ aɡ]) is a former commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.

La Hague (French pronunciation: [la ag]) is a commune in the department of Manche, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Beaumont-Hague (the seat), Acqueville, Auderville, Biville, Branville-Hague, Digulleville, Éculleville, Flottemanville-Hague, Gréville-Hague, Herqueville, Jobourg, Omonville-la-Petite, Omonville-la-Rogue, Sainte-Croix-Hague, Saint-Germain-des-Vaux, Tonneville, Urville-Nacqueville, Vasteville and Vauville.

The Canton of Beaumont-Hague in France is situated in the department of Manche and the region of Basse-Normandie. Its seat was the commune of Beaumont-Hague. It had 11,932 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 19 communes, which joined the new canton of La Hague in 2015.The canton comprised the following communes:

Éculleville (French pronunciation: [ekylvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.

Vauville (French pronunciation: [vovil] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.

The Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville (4 hectares), also known as the Jardin botanique de Vauville, is a private botanical garden located on the grounds of the Château de Vauville near Beaumont-Hague in Vauville, Manche, Normandy, France. It is open afternoons in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was begun by Eric Pellerin in 1948 on a windy site located within 300 meters of the Atlantic Ocean. Today it contains more than 900 semi-tropical species of plants from the Southern Hemisphere set within windbreaks of diverse eucalyptus and bamboo. Collections include aloes, Dimorphotheca, Echium pininana, and palm trees.

Gréville-Hague (French pronunciation: [ɡʁevil aɡ]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague. A hamlet (Gruchy) of the village is the birthplace of Jean-François Millet, a notable impressionist painter. Several of his most important paintings depict local landscapes or rural labour. Location of a major World War II battery, as well as massive French fortifications (never completed) to protect the deep-water port of Cherbourg.

Omonville-la-Rogue (French pronunciation: [ɔmɔ̃vil la ʁɔɡ]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague. It is the site of one of the few ports on this rugged coastline.

Herqueville (French pronunciation: [ɛʁkəvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.

Digulleville (French pronunciation: [diɡylvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.

The La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France, with the Manche storage centre bordering on it. Operated by Orano, formerly AREVA, and prior to that COGEMA (Compagnie générale des matières atomiques), La Hague has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1,700 tonnes per year. It extracts plutonium which is then recycled into MOX fuel at the Marcoule site. It has treated spent nuclear fuel from France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. It processed 1100 tonnes in 2005. The non-recyclable part of the radioactive waste is eventually sent back to the user nation. Prior to 2015, more than 32,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel has been reprocessed, with 70% of that from France, 17% from Germany and 9% from Japan.

Branville-Hague (French pronunciation: [bʁɑ̃vil aɡ]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.