Yvetot is a town and commune of the Seine-Maritime département. It is the main town of the central Pays de Caux, in Haute-Normandie, in Normandy northwestern France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Seine-Maritime is a French département in Normandy. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... // Geography Étretat, falaise daval and the needle The Pays de Caux is a plateau of Upper Cretaceous chalk, like that which forms the North and South Downs in southern England. ... Capital Rouen Land area¹ 12,318 km² Regional President Alain Le Vern (PS) (since 1998) Population  - Jan. ... For other uses, see Normandy (disambiguation). ...

• longitude 00°45'15"E latitude 49°37'04"N
• Altitudes between 83 and 157 metres. mean 146m.
• 10,770 inhabitants.
• Post code 76190
• INSEE code 76758

Yvetot is twinned with Lesmahagow, Scotland. Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm, Germany Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ... Lesmahagow is a small town on the edge of moorland, near Lanark in the central belt of Scotland, and is also known as Abbey Green. ... This article is about the country. ...

In World War 2, the 75th Division of the U.S. Army, 575th Signal Co., maintained its command post in the town from December 14-20, 1944, as it counterattacked against the German army.

The entry for Yvetot in Gustave Flaubert's "Dictionnaire des Idees Recues" is 'Voir Yvetot et mourir.' - 'See Yvetot and die.' (Flaubert, Bouvard et Pecuchet, Paris: Flammarion, 1999, p436)

Coordinates: 49°37′N, 0°46′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...