Courrières
Courrières is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 7 miles northeast of Lens. The Lens canal and the canalized river Deûle forms three quarters of the borders of the commune.
- Type: Town with 10,200 residents
- Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
- Also known as: “Courrieres” and “Курієр”
- Postal code: 62710
Places of Interest
Highlights: Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus de Courrières and Église Saint-Piat.
Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus de Courrières
Church
Fosse n° 1 des mines de Courrières
Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harnes and Oignies.
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Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.Oignies
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Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.Courrières
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Courrières, Arrondissement of Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.45584° or 50° 27′ 21″ north
Longitude
2.94476° or 2° 56′ 41″ east
Population
10,200
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Dampierre-les-Dunes”
UN/LOCODE
FR RRS
Open location code
9F24FW4V+8W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Courrières” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Courrières”
- Arabic: “كوريريس”
- Aragonese: “Courrières”
- Arpitan: “Courrières”
- Asturian: “Courrières”
- Bambara: “Courrières”
- Basque: “Courrières”
- Bavarian: “Courrières”
- Breton: “Courrières”
- Cajun French: “Courrières”
- Catalan: “Courrières”
- Cebuano: “Courrières”
- Chechen: “КугӀгӀиегӀ”
- Chinese: “库里耶尔”
- Chinese: “庫里耶爾”
- Corsican: “Courrières”
- Croatian: “Courrières”
- Czech: “Courrières”
- Danish: “Courrières”
- Dimli (individual language): “Courrières”
- Dutch: “Courrières”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوريريس”
- Esperanto: “Courrières”
- Estonian: “Courrières”
- Faroese: “Courrières”
- Finnish: “Courrières”
- French: “Courrières”
- Friulian: “Courrières”
- Galician: “Courrières”
- German: “Courrières”
- Greek: “Κουριέρ”
- Hungarian: “Courrières”
- Icelandic: “Courrières”
- Ido: “Courrières”
- Indonesian: “Courrières”
- Interlingua: “Courrières”
- Interlingue: “Courrières”
- Irish: “Courrières”
- Italian: “Courrières”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Courrières”
- Japanese: “クリエール”
- Jèrriais: “Courrières”
- Kabyle: “Courrières”
- Kalaallisut: “Courrières”
- Kazakh: “Kwrrïyer”
- Kazakh: “Курриер”
- Kazakh: “كۋررىييەر”
- Kongo: “Courrières”
- Kurdish: “Courrières”
- Ladin: “Courrières”
- Latin: “Courrières”
- Latvian: “Courrières”
- Ligurian: “Courrières”
- Limburgan: “Courrières”
- Lithuanian: “Courrières”
- Low German: “Courrières”
- Luxembourgish: “Courrières”
- Mainfränkisch: “Courrières”
- Malagasy: “Courrières”
- Malay: “Courrières”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Courrières”
- Minangkabau: “Courrières”
- Neapolitan: “Courrières”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Courrières”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Courrières”
- Norwegian: “Courrières”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Courrières”
- Papiamento: “Courrières”
- Persian: “کور-ییر”
- Picard: “Courrières”
- Piemontese: “Courrières”
- Polish: “Courrières”
- Portuguese: “Courrières”
- Prussian: “Courrières”
- Romagnol: “Courrières”
- Romanian: “Courrières”
- Romansh: “Courrières”
- Russian: “Курьер”
- Sardinian: “Courrières”
- Scots: “Courrières”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Courrières”
- Serbian: “Kurjer”
- Serbian: “Курјер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Courrières”
- Sicilian: “Courrières”
- Slovak: “Courrières”
- Spanish: “Courrières”
- Swahili: “Courrières”
- Swedish: “Courrières”
- Swiss German: “Courrières”
- Tatar: “Курриер”
- Turkish: “Courrières”
- Ukrainian: “Куррієр”
- Urdu: “کورئیر”
- Venetian: “Courrières”
- Vietnamese: “Courrières”
- Vlaams: “Courrières”
- Volapük: “Courrières”
- Walloon: “Courrières”
- Waray (Philippines): “Courrières”
- Welsh: “Courrières”
- Wolof: “Courrières”
- Zulu: “Courrières”
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Places to explore: Cité Saint-Jean and Chauffours.
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Highlights: Police municipale and Salle paroissiale Martin Luther King.
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