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Geography[edit] Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to ...
Côtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790 following the French Revolution. It was made up from the near entirety of the ancient Pays de Saint-Brieuc , most of historical Trégor , the eastern half of Cornouaille , and the north-western part of the former diocese of Saint-Malo .
Hauts-de-France ( French pronunciation: [o də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; lit.'Heights of France', Upper France, [3] Picard: Heuts d'Franche) is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille.
Area codes: 01 : Île-de-France region. 02 : Northwest region: ( Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy, Pays de la Loire) and "Indian Ocean" ( Réunion and Mayotte ). 03 : Northeast region: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand Est, and Hauts-de-France. 04 : Southeast region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, [2] Corsica, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and ...
Nord-Pas-de-Calais is home to 5 to 7 % of Muslims in France, approximately 350,000 people. This presence dates back to the early 1960s with the repatriation of Harkis after the Algerian War [11] and was extended by the recruitment of North African workers by coal mines and steel and textile industries in the 1980s.
Cantons of the Nord department. The following is a list of the 41 cantons of the Nord department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Aniche. Annœullin.
INSEE /Postal code. 62414 /62156. Elevation. 48–86 m (157–282 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Haucourt ( French pronunciation: [okuʁ]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. [3]
The 6 arrondissements of the Nord department are: [1] Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, ( subprefecture: Avesnes-sur-Helpe) with 151 communes. Its population was 230,372 in 2016. Arrondissement of Cambrai, (subprefecture: Cambrai) with 116 communes. Its population was 162,045 in 2016.