Lens, Pas-de-Calais Totally Explained

Everything about Lens Pas-de-calais totally explained

Lens is a commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. It is one of France's large Picarde cities along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras, and Douai.

Metropolitan area

Lens belongs to the communauté d'agglomération of Lens-Liévin (Communaupole) which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.
Lens, along with Douai, forms the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) of Douai-Lens, whose population at the 1999 census was 552,682.

Economy

The city is an industrial and mining centre and has a long history of coal mining. Surrounding the town are many large slag heaps.

Miscellaneous

The city supports a top-level football team, Racing Club de Lens.
Very close to Lens, the Vimy Memorial, is at Vimy Ridge.
Lens will also be from 2009 the location of the Louvre-Lens.

Famous Lensois

Émile Basly, trade unionist then mayor of the city, died there in 1928
Maurice Garin, first winner of Tour de France, died there in 1957

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