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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 ...
- Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord...
- Departments of France
e. In the administrative divisions of France, the department...
- Departmental Council of Nord
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- Communes of the Nord department
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 ...
- 4 March 1790
- Lille
Le Nord ( /nɔʁ/ Note 1) est le département français comprenant les territoires les plus septentrionaux de la France. Lille en est la préfecture et la plus grande ville. L' Insee et la Poste lui attribuent le code 59. Avec 2 611 293 habitants en 2021, il est le département le plus peuplé du pays, porté par la métropole lilloise qui ...
- 4 mars 1790 (233 ans)
- France
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 ...
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