Lille
Lille | |
|---|---|
 Lille city centre. | |
.svg) Coat airms | |
  Lille Location within Hauts-de-France region  Lille | |
| Coordinates: 50°38′14″N 3°03′48″E / 50.6372°N 3.0633°ECoordinates: 50°38′14″N 3°03′48″E / 50.6372°N 3.0633°E | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Depairtment | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Lille |
| Intercommunality | European Metropolis o Lille |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Martine Aubry (PS) |
| Area 1 | 34.8 km2 (13.4 sq mi) |
| • Urban (2009) | 442.5 km2 (170.9 sq mi) |
| • Metro (2007) | 7200 km2 (2,800 sq mi) |
| Population (2016-01-01)2 | 236,782 |
| • Rank | 10t in Fraunce |
| • Density | 6,800/km2 (18,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban (2009[1]) | 1,015,744 |
| • Urban density | 2,300/km2 (5,900/sq mi) |
| • Metro (2007[2]) | 3,800,000 |
| • Metro density | 530/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59350 /59000, 59800 |
| Website | www |
| 1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance. | |
Lille (French pronunciation: [lil] (
listen); Dutch: Rijsel) is a ceety in northren Fraunce (French Flanders). It is the principal ceety o the European Metropolis o Lille, the fowert-lairgest metropolitan aurie in the kintra ahint those o Paris, Lyon an Marseille. Lille is situatit on the Deûle River, near Fraunce's border wi Belgium. It is the caipital o the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region an the prefectur o the Nord depairtment.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns – sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Lille is twinned wi:
Cologne, Germany[3]- Erfurt, Germany[3]
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg[3]
Kharkiv, Ukraine[3]
Leeds, Unitit Kinrick[3]
Liège, Belgium[3]
Nablus, Palestine[3]
Oujda, Morocco[3]
Rotterdam, Netherlands[3]
Safed, Israel[3]
Wrocław, Poland[3]
Saint-Louis, Senegal[3]
Shanghai, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae[3]
Turin, Italy[3][4]
Valladolid, Spain[3]
Buffalo, Unitit States[5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ http://www.insee.fr/fr/bases-de-donnees/esl/comparateur.asp?codgeo=uu2010-59702
- ↑ http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?reg_id=19&ref_id=18191
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Lile Facts & Figures". Mairie-Lille.fr. Archived frae the original on 28 Apryle 2009. Retrieved 9 Apryle 2009.
- ↑ Turin City Hall – International Affairs (in Inglis) Retrieved on 26 January 2008.
- ↑ "Lille, France – City of Buffalo". Ci.buffalo.ny.us. Archived frae the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 1 Juin 2011.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Lille. |
Travel guide tae Lille frae Wikivoyage- Offeecial wabsteid in Inglis Archived 2009-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
- European Caipital o Cultur 2004
- Lille at Curlie
- Proposal for Lille Expo 2017 Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
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