North (department) - Nord (Département)



North department
Capital	Lille
Residents	2.606.234 (2018)
surface	5,743 km²
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location

North is a department in the French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais and bears the serial number 59. In the north, the department borders on the North Sea in the area of the English Channel, in the east Belgium, in the south to the departments Aisne and Somme and to the west to the department Pas-de-Calais.

Regions

Map of north (department)

The department is divided into the following five arrondissements:

Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe

Arrondissement of Cambrai

Arrondissement of Douai

Arrondissement of Dunkerque

Arrondissement of Lille

Valenciennes arrondissement

places

Old stock exchange in Lille

Armentières
Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Bailleul
Bergues
Cambrai
Comines
Douai
Dunkerque (Dunkirk)
Gravelines
Lille is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the department.
Eye of the mouth
Roubaix
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Tourcoing
Valenciennes

Other goals

background

language

getting there

By plane

The airport is located in the North Department Lille with good connections within France Biarritz, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Perpignan, Strasbourg and Toulouse, to Corsica With Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari and among other things after Algeria (Algiers and Oran), Morocco (Agadir and Marrakech), Portugal (Faro and postage), Tunisia (Djerba and Monastir) and to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands

By boat

The Dunkerque ferry port is located in the northern department. DFDS Seaways served the car ferry to Dover with eight to twelve crossings daily. Passengers without a motor vehicle will not be carried. The journey time is 2 hours. There are bars, restaurants and a shop on board the ships.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

activities

kitchen

nightlife

security

climate

trips

Parc Naturel Regional de l'Avesnoislast change: not specified

Parc Naturel Régional Scarpe-Escautlast change: not specified

Forêt Domaniale de Mourmallast change: not specified

literature

Web links

https://lenord.fr/ - Nord official website

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