Pas-de-Calais

The Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 887, and is the 8th most populous.
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  • Type: department of France with 1,460,000 residents
  • Description: French department
  • Also known as: “departamentul Pas-de-Calais”, “FR-62”, “Pasu de Calais”, “Па-дэ-Кале (дэпартамент)”, and “פה־דה־קאלה”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gare d’Anvin and Église Saint-Martin d’Heuchin.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Pas-de-Calais

Latitude
50.4828° or 50° 28′ 58″ north
Longitude
2.2866° or 2° 17′ 12″ east
Population
1,460,000
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
Open location code
9F24F7MP+4M
Geo­Names ID
2988430
Wiki­data ID
Q12689
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pas-de-Calais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Albanian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Arabic: “با دو كاليه”
  • Arabic: “باد كاليه”
  • Aragonese: “Paso de Calais”
  • Armenian: “Պա դը Կալե”
  • Armenian: “Պա-դը-Կալե”
  • Arpitan: “Pâs-de-Calès”
  • Arpitan: “Pâs-de-Calês”
  • Asturian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pa-de-Kale”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pa-dе-Kale (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pa-dе-Kale”
  • Basque: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Па-дэ-Кале”
  • Belarusian: “Па-дэ-Кале”
  • Bengali: “পাস-দে-ক্যালাইস”
  • Breton: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Bulgarian: “Па дьо Кале”
  • Catalan: “Pas de Calais”
  • Cebuano: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Chechen: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Chinese: “加来海峡省”
  • Chinese: “加萊海峽”
  • Chuvash: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Czech: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Danish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pa-dе-Kale”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Dutch: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پا-دو-كاليه”
  • Esperanto: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Estonian: “Pas-de-Calais‘ departemang”
  • Estonian: “Pas-de-Calais’ departemang”
  • Finnish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • French: “Département du Pas-de-Calais”
  • French: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Galician: “Departamento do Paso de Calais”
  • Galician: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Georgian: “პა-დე-კალე”
  • German: “Département Pas-de-Calais”
  • German: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Greek: “Πα-ντε-Καλαί”
  • Gujarati: “પાસ-દે-કાલાઈસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Calais Hói-hia̍p-sén”
  • Hebrew: “פה-דה-קאלה”
  • Hindi: “पास-डी-कलाइस”
  • Hungarian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Indonesian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Pas-de-Calais”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Pas-de-Calais”
  • Irish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Italian: “Passo di Calais”
  • Japanese: “パ＝ド＝カレー県”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಸ್-ಡೆ-ಕ್ಯಾಲೈಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Kongo: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Korean: “파드칼레주”
  • Ladin: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Ladino: “Pas de Calais”
  • Latin: “Fretum Calisii”
  • Latin: “Fretum Gallicum”
  • Latvian: “Padekalē”
  • Limburgan: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Lithuanian: “Pa de Kalė”
  • Lombard: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Low German: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Pas-de-Calais”
  • Macedonian: “Па де Кале”
  • Malagasy: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Malay: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Manx: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Marathi: “पा-द-कॅले”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Northern Sami: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Norwegian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pas de Calais”
  • Ossetian: “Па-де-Кале (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Pampanga: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Persian: “پا-دو-کاله”
  • Picard: “Pas-Calés”
  • Picard: “Pas-d’Caleus”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Pass ëd Calais”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd Pass ëd Calais”
  • Polish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Portuguese: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Romanian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Russian: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Scots: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Serbian: “Па де Кале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Sinhala: “පස්-ඩේ-කලයිස්”
  • Slovak: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Slovenian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Spanish: “Paso de Calais”
  • Swahili: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Swedish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Swiss German: “Département Pas-de-Calais”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Па де Кале”
  • Tamil: “பாஸ்-டி -கலாய்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పాస్-ద-కాలెయిస్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดปาดกาแล”
  • Turkish: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Ukrainian: “Па-де-Кале”
  • Urdu: “پا دے کالے”
  • Urdu: “پا-دو-کالے”
  • Uzbek: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Venetian: “Paso de Calè”
  • Vietnamese: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Vlaams: “Nauw van Kales”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Welsh: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Western Frisian: “Pas-de-Calais”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع پا ڈی کالے”
  • Wu Chinese: “加来海峡省”
  • Yue Chinese: “加來海峽”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Heuchin and Boyaval.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Anvin Railway Station and Pernes-Camblain Railway Station.

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