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Nord(French pronunciation:[nɔʁ]ⓘ; officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. 'Northern Department') is a départementin Hauts-de-Franceregion, Francebordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flandersand Hainaut, and the Bishopric of ...
Departments of France. In the administrative divisions of France, the department ( French: département, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃] ⓘ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities "), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, with ...
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.
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Nord is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Douai as is capital. 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 arrondis...
Nord is part of the Hauts-de-France region. It has an area of 5,742.8 km2(2,217 sq mi). The department is surrounded by the North Sea, Belgium (West Flanders and Hainaut provinces) and 3 other departments of the Hauts-de-Franceregion: 1. Hauts-de-France region 1.1. Aisne(south) 1.2. Somme(southwest) (a short distance) 1.3. Pas-de-Calais(west) The h...
Nord is managed by the Departmental Council of Aisne in Lille. The department is part of the Hauts-de-Franceregion.
The inhabitants of Nord are known, in French, as Nordistes. Nord had a population, in 2014, of 2,603,472, for a population density of 453.3 inhabitants/km2. The arrondissement of Lille, with 1,232,513 inhabitants, is the arrondissementwith more inhabitants. The 10 communesin the department with more inhabitants are:
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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Article History. Table of Contents. Wattrelos, town, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, on the Belgian-French border. A northeastern suburb of Roubaix, it has textile, chemical, and metallurgical industries. The community was known as Waterloz in 1030, and the discovery of a golden effigy of Nero in 1864 indicated ...