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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 ...
Nord-Pas de Calais is the second main region for the automotive industry in France after Île de France (Paris region). The sector trade fair, the Forum on European Automotive Industry in Lille Region (FEAL), [ 54 ] takes place biennially to showcase the industry of the region and its importance for France and Europe.
Hauts-de-France (French: [o d(ə) fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; Picard: Heuts d'Franche; lit. ' Heights of France ' ), also referred to in English as Upper France , [ 3 ] 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 .
It was also the finish of Stage 5 of the 2011 Tour de France. French actress and singer Fréhel had taken her stage name from this peninsula. In 2024 an offshore wind farm was completed only 16.3 kilometers from Cap Fréhel, with sixty-two 210 meters-high wind turbines. They are visible from the cape most of the time, and their visual impact on ...
Crossing the ligne de démarcation between the north zone and the south zone also required an Ausweis, which was difficult to acquire. [4] People could write only to their family members, and this was only permissible using a pre-filled card where the sender checked off the appropriate words (e.g. 'in good health', 'wounded', 'dead', 'prisoner ...
Domrémy-la-Pucelle (French pronunciation: [dɔ̃ʁemi la pysɛl] ⓘ, lit. ' Domrémy [of] the Maid '; German: Remshausen) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia [a] or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic.
Belfort is 400 km (250 mi) from Paris and 55 km (34 mi) from Basel. The residents of the city are called "Belfortains". The city is located on the river Savoureuse, on a strategically important natural route between the Rhine and the Rhône – the Belfort Gap (Trouée de Belfort) or Burgundian Gate (Porte de Bourgogne).