Hauts-de-France
North
Arrondissement of Lille

Croix

Croix is a commune in the department in northern France. It is located northeast of the city of about 7 km from the centre. The headquarters of Auchan, a hypermarket chain, are located in Croix.
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  • Type: Town with 20,800 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “59163”, “Croix, Nord”, and “Kruis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include EDHEC Business School and Gare de Roubaix.

College
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The École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord, commonly known as or simply EDHEC, is a French business school and grande école founded in 1906.

Railway station
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Roubaix station is a railway station serving the town , department, northern .

Museum
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in Croix is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from active in the textile industry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roubaix and Tourcoing.

Town
Photo: Mairie de roubaix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in northern France, located in the metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns.

Town
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is a city in northern on the border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of . Located to the north-northeast of , adjacent to , is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants. is situated 5 km north of Croix.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the region, northern . It is a suburb of the city of , and is immediately adjacent to it on the northeast. is situated 3½ km west of Croix.

Croix

Latitude
50.6802° or 50° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
3.1564° or 3° 9′ 23″ east
Population
20,800
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
9F25M5J4+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691440
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6454404
Wiki­data ID
Q239091
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Croix” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Croix”
  • Arabic: “كروا (نورد)”
  • Arabic: “كروا”
  • Aragonese: “Croix”
  • Arpitan: “Croix”
  • Asturian: “Croix”
  • Bambara: “Croix”
  • Basque: “Croix”
  • Bavarian: “Croix”
  • Belarusian: “Круа”
  • Bengali: “ক্রোয়া”
  • Breton: “Croix”
  • Cajun French: “Croix”
  • Catalan: “Croix”
  • Cebuano: “Croix, Nord”
  • Cebuano: “Croix”
  • Chechen: “КгӀуа”
  • Chinese: “Croix”
  • Chinese: “克魯瓦”
  • Chinese: “克鲁瓦”
  • Corsican: “Croix”
  • Croatian: “Croix”
  • Czech: “Croix”
  • Danish: “Croix”
  • Dutch: “Croix (Noorderdepartement)”
  • Dutch: “Croix”
  • Dutch: “Kruis”
  • Esperanto: “Croix”
  • Esperanto: “Kruis”
  • Estonian: “Croix”
  • Faroese: “Croix”
  • Finnish: “Croix”
  • French: “Croix”
  • French: “Kruis”
  • Friulian: “Croix”
  • Galician: “Croix”
  • German: “Croix”
  • German: “Kruis”
  • Greek: “Κρουά”
  • Hungarian: “Croix”
  • Icelandic: “Croix”
  • Ido: “Croix”
  • Indonesian: “Croix, Nord”
  • Indonesian: “Croix”
  • Interlingua: “Croix”
  • Interlingue: “Croix”
  • Irish: “Croix”
  • Italian: “Croix”
  • Italian: “Kruis”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Croix”
  • Japanese: “クロア”
  • Japanese: “クロワ”
  • Kabyle: “Croix”
  • Kalaallisut: “Croix”
  • Kazakh: “Krwa”
  • Kazakh: “Круа”
  • Kazakh: “كرۋا”
  • Kongo: “Croix”
  • Korean: “크루아”
  • Kurdish: “Croix, Nord”
  • Kurdish: “Croix”
  • Ladin: “Croix”
  • Latin: “Croix”
  • Latvian: “Croix”
  • Ligurian: “Croix”
  • Limburgan: “Croix”
  • Lithuanian: “Croix”
  • Low German: “Croix”
  • Luxembourgish: “Croix”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Croix”
  • Malagasy: “Croix, Nord”
  • Malagasy: “Croix”
  • Malay: “Croix, Nord”
  • Malay: “Croix”
  • Mazanderani: “کروآ، شمال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Croix”
  • Minangkabau: “Croix”
  • Narom: “Croix”
  • Neapolitan: “Croix”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Croix”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Croix”
  • Norwegian: “Croix”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Croix”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kruis”
  • Papiamento: “Croix”
  • Persian: “کروآ، شمال”
  • Persian: “کروا، شمال”
  • Picard: “Croix”
  • Picard: “Crox”
  • Piemontese: “Croix”
  • Polish: “Croix”
  • Portuguese: “Croix”
  • Prussian: “Croix”
  • Romagnol: “Croix”
  • Romanian: “Croix, Nord”
  • Romanian: “Croix”
  • Romansh: “Croix”
  • Russian: “Круа”
  • Sardinian: “Croix”
  • Scots: “Croix”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Croix”
  • Serbian: “Croix”
  • Serbian: “Kroa”
  • Serbian: “Кроа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Croix, Nord”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Croix”
  • Sicilian: “Croix”
  • Slovak: “Croix”
  • Slovenian: “Croix, Nord”
  • Slovenian: “Croix”
  • Spanish: “Croix”
  • Spanish: “Kruis”
  • Swahili: “Croix, Nord”
  • Swahili: “Croix”
  • Swedish: “Croix, Nord”
  • Swedish: “Croix”
  • Swiss German: “Croix”
  • Tatar: “Круа”
  • Turkish: “Croix, Nord”
  • Turkish: “Croix”
  • Ukrainian: “Круа”
  • Venetian: “Croix”
  • Vietnamese: “Croix, Nord”
  • Vietnamese: “Croix”
  • Vlaams: “Croix”
  • Volapük: “Croix”
  • Walloon: “Croix”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Croix, Nord”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Croix”
  • Welsh: “Croix”
  • Wolof: “Croix”
  • Zulu: “Croix”
  • “Croix”

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