North

Nord is a department in region in France, bordering . It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai.
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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: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Denain and Gare de Lourches.

Railway station
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, GFDL.
is a railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, GFDL.
is a railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Denain and Douchy-les-Mines.

Town
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is a commune in the Nord department in northern . As of 2023, the population of the commune was 20,665, 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.

Town
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is a commune in the Nord department in northern .

Village
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is a commune in the Nord department in northern .

North

Latitude
50.3333° or 50° 20′ north
Longitude
3.362° or 3° 21′ 43″ east
Population
2,620,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
9F2589M6+8Q
Geo­Names ID
2990129
Wiki­data ID
Q12661
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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: “諾爾”
  • Chinese: “諾爾省”
  • Chinese: “诺尔省”
  • Chuvash: “Нор”
  • Corsican: “Nordu”
  • Czech: “Nord”
  • Danish: “Nord”
  • 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: “नोर”
  • Hindi: “नोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Nord”
  • Indonesian: “Nord”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Nord”
  • Irish: “Nord”
  • Italian: “Nord”
  • Japanese: “Département du 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”
  • “59”
  • “Nord”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Denain Railway Station and Selle.

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