North
Nord is a department in Hauts-de-France region, France, bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of France with 2,620,000 residents
- Description: French department in Hauts-de-France
- Also known as: “Departement du Nord”, “Nord”, and “Northern Department”
- Neighbors: Hainaut and West Flanders
Photo: Szilas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gare de Denain and Gare de Lourches.
Gare de Denain
Railway station
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, GFDL.
Gare de Denain is a railway station.
Gare de Lourches
Railway station
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, GFDL.
Gare de Lourches is a railway station.
Église Saint-Martin d’Escaudain
Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Église Saint-Martin d’Escaudain is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Denain and Douchy-les-Mines.
Denain
Town
Photo: Ottaviani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Denain is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. As of 2019 Denain had a population of 19,877, on a land area of 11.52 km2. It is the largest of 47 communes which comprise the Communauté d'agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut, which in 2017 had a total population of 158,754.
Douchy-les-Mines
Town
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
Douchy-les-Mines is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Escaudain
Village
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
Escaudain is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
North
- Location: Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“North” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nord”
- Albanian: “Nord”
- Arabic: “نور”
- Aragonese: “Norte”
- Armenian: “Նոր”
- Arpitan: “Nord”
- Asturian: “Nord”
- Azerbaijani: “Nor”
- Balinese: “Nord (departemén Prancis)”
- Balinese: “Nord”
- Basque: “Nord”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Нор”
- Belarusian: “Нор (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Нор”
- Belarusian: “Поўнач”
- Bengali: “নর্ড”
- Breton: “Norzh”
- Bulgarian: “Нор”
- Catalan: “Nord”
- Cebuano: “Nord”
- Chechen: “НогӀ (департамент)”
- Chechen: “НогӀ”
- Chinese: “Nord”
- Chinese: “北部省”
- Chinese: “诺尔省”
- Chinese: “諾爾”
- Chinese: “諾爾省”
- Chuvash: “Нор”
- Corsican: “Nordu”
- Czech: “Nord”
- Danish: “Nord”
- Dutch: “59”
- Dutch: “Noord”
- Dutch: “Noorderdepartement”
- Dutch: “Nord”
- Esperanto: “Nord”
- Estonian: “Nord’i departemang”
- Estonian: “Nordi departemang”
- Finnish: “Nord”
- French: “Département du Nord”
- French: “Nord”
- Galician: “Nord”
- Galician: “Norte, Francia”
- Galician: “Norte”
- Georgian: “ნორი”
- Georgian: “ნორის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departement Nord”
- German: “Département Nord”
- German: “Nord”
- German: “Norddepartement”
- Greek: “Νορ”
- Gujarati: “નોર્ડ”
- Haitian: “Nò”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nord-sén”
- Hebrew: “נור”
- Hindi: “नोर्ड”
- Hungarian: “Nord”
- Indonesian: “Nord”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Nord”
- Irish: “Nord”
- Italian: “Nord”
- Japanese: “ノール県”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಡ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nord (Fransiya departamenti)”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nord”
- Kazakh: “Нор”
- Kongo: “Nord”
- Korean: “노르주”
- Ladin: “Nord”
- Ladino: “Nord”
- Latin: “Septentrio”
- Latvian: “Nora”
- Limburgan: “Nord”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurė”
- Lombard: “Nord”
- Low German: “Nord”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Nord”
- Macedonian: “Север”
- Malagasy: “Nord”
- Malay: “Nord”
- Manx: “Nord”
- Marathi: “नोर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nord”
- Northern Frisian: “Département Nord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Nord”
- Norwegian: “Nord”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament del Nòrd”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nòrd”
- Ossetian: “Нор (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Нор”
- Pampanga: “Nord”
- Persian: “نر”
- Persian: “نور”
- Persian: “نورد”
- Picard: “départémint dech Nord”
- Picard: “Nord”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Nòrd”
- Piemontese: “Nòrd”
- Polish: “Nord”
- Portuguese: “Nord”
- Portuguese: “Norte (França)”
- Portuguese: “Norte”
- Romanian: “departamentul Nord”
- Romanian: “Nord”
- Russian: “Нор”
- Scots: “Nord”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nord”
- Serbian: “Нор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nord”
- Sinhala: “නොර්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Nord”
- Slovenian: “Nord”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Norte”
- Spanish: “Département du Nord”
- Spanish: “Norte”
- Swahili: “Nord”
- Swedish: “Nord”
- Tagalog: “Nord”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Нор”
- Tamil: “நொர்ட்”
- Telugu: “నార్డ్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดนอร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Nord”
- Turkish: “Nord, Fransa”
- Turkish: “Nord”
- Ukrainian: “Нор”
- Urdu: “نور”
- Uzbek: “Nord (Fransiya departamenti)”
- Uzbek: “Nord”
- Venetian: “Nord”
- Vietnamese: “Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais”
- Vietnamese: “Nord”
- Vlaams: “Noorderdepartement”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nord”
- Welsh: “Nord”
- Western Frisian: “Noarderdepartemint”
- Western Frisian: “Nord”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع نورڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “北部省”
- Yue Chinese: “諾爾”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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