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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 Anor in the south ...
Departments. Nord Department. You will be truly transformed by the end of your stay in the Nord, where the art of celebration meets cultural and artistic heritage. The authenticity of French Flanders and the unique light of the Opal coast will captivate you. All this is just an hour from Paris by train, or two and a half hours by car.
Nord is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Douai as is capital. [4] It was divided in eight districts: Avesnes, Bergues, Cambrai, Douai, Hazebrouck, Lille, Le Quesnoy and Valenciennes. In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the eight districts were changed into six ...
The department of Nord has the number 59. It is composed of 6 districts ("arrondissements") , 79 townships ("cantons") and 652 towns ("communes"). The 6 districts of the department of Nord are : Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, Dunkerque, Lille, Valenciennes. The inhabitants of of Nord were 2 555 020 in 1999 and 2 565 257 in 2006.
Nord ( French pronunciation: [ nɔʁ] ⓘ; officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. 'Northern Department') is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the ...
Dunkirk, town and seaport, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France. It lies along the Strait of Dover between Calais and the Belgian frontier, 49 miles (79 km) northwest of Lille by road. First mentioned in 1067 as Dunkerk (Flemish: “Church of the Dunes”), the town was besieged and sacked six times during the Middle Ages ...
The Nord is France's northernmost and most populous department. Minority languages include Picard (a dialect of French), Flemish (a dialect of Dutch), and Dunkerquois (a French dialect borrowing a lot from Flemish). It has a surface area of 5,743 km², a population of 2,577,000 inhabitants, and is divided into six administrative districts ...
