The Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
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It is populous but not pretty. You see it mainly by passing through to other places, from your car at Calais, or from the windows of the Eurostar trains.
It is an extremely densely populated region with some 4 million inhabitants - 7% of France's total population, making it the fourth most populous region in the country - 83% of whom live in urban communities and covers an area of 12,414 km².
Its administrative centre is the city of Lille.
Other major towns include Valenciennes, Lens, Douai, Béthune, Dunkirk, Maubeuge, Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Arras.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais contains the following departements (the chief town of each department - the prefecture) is shown in brackets:-
- Nord (Lille)
- Pas-de-Calais (Arras)