Lens

Lens is a city in , France. A former industrial city, its wealth was founded on textiles and coal mining. In 2009, the Louvre opened a branch in Lens, called - naturally enough - Louvre-Lens.
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  • Type: City with 32,600 residents
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Also known as: “Lens (Frankrijk)”, “Lens (Fransän)”, “Lens (Pas-de-Calais)”, “Lens Pas de Calais”, “Lens Pas de-Calais”, “Lens Pas-de-Calais”, “Lens, France”, “Lens, Pas de Calais”, “Lens, Pas de-Calais”, “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”, “Лан”, “Лянс”, and “לנס”
  • Postal code: 62300

Places of Interest

Highlights: Stade Bollaert-Delelis and Louvre-Lens.

Stadium
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The is the main football stadium in Lens, , that was built in 1933.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in Lens…

Railway station
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is a railway station in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avion and Liévin.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the region of .

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern France.

Town
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is a commune in the department…

Lens

Latitude
50.4292° or 50° 25′ 45″ north
Longitude
2.832° or 2° 49′ 55″ east
Population
32,600
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
IATA airport code
XLE
UN/LOCODE
FR LEN
Open location code
9F24CRHJ+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3003093
Wiki­data ID
Q165271
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Lens” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Lens”
  • Afrikaans: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Afrikaans: “Lens”
  • Albanian: “Lens”
  • Arabic: “لانس”
  • Arabic: “لنس”
  • Aragonese: “Lens”
  • Armenian: “Լանս”
  • Arpitan: “Lens”
  • Asturian: “Lens”
  • Balinese: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Balinese: “Lens”
  • Bambara: “Lens”
  • Basque: “Lens”
  • Bavarian: “Lens”
  • Belarusian: “Ланс (Францыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Ланс”
  • Bengali: “লঁস”
  • Breton: “Lens”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланс”
  • Cajun French: “Lens”
  • Catalan: “Lens”
  • Cebuano: “Lens”
  • Chechen: “Ланс”
  • Chinese: “朗斯”
  • Chuvash: “Ланс”
  • Corsican: “Lens”
  • Croatian: “Lens”
  • Czech: “Lens”
  • Danish: “Lens”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lens”
  • Dutch: “Lens”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لنس”
  • Esperanto: “Lens”
  • Estonian: “Lens”
  • Faroese: “Lens”
  • Finnish: “Lens”
  • French: “Lens”
  • Friulian: “Lens”
  • Galician: “Lens, Paso de Calais”
  • Galician: “Lens”
  • German: “Lens”
  • Greek: “Λανς”
  • Hebrew: “לאנס”
  • Hungarian: “Lens”
  • Icelandic: “Lens”
  • Ido: “Lens”
  • Indonesian: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Indonesian: “Lens”
  • Interlingua: “Lens”
  • Interlingue: “Lens”
  • Irish: “Lens”
  • Italian: “Lens”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lens”
  • Japanese: “ランス”
  • Jèrriais: “Lens”
  • Kabyle: “Lens”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lens”
  • Kazakh: “Ланс”
  • Kongo: “Lens”
  • Korean: “랑스”
  • Kurdish: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Kurdish: “Lens”
  • Ladin: “Lens”
  • Latin: “Lens”
  • Latvian: “Lansa”
  • Ligurian: “Lens”
  • Limburgan: “Lens”
  • Lithuanian: “Lansas”
  • Low German: “Lens”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lens”
  • Macedonian: “Ланс”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Lens”
  • Malagasy: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Malagasy: “Lens”
  • Malay: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Malay: “Lens”
  • Marathi: “लेंस”
  • Mazanderani: “لان، پدو کله”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lens”
  • Minangkabau: “Lens”
  • Mingrelian: “ლანსი”
  • Neapolitan: “Lens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lens i Frankrike”
  • Norwegian: “Lens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lens”
  • Papiamento: “Lens”
  • Persian: “لان، پدو کله”
  • Persian: “لانس”
  • Picard: “Linse”
  • Piemontese: “Lens”
  • Polish: “Lens”
  • Portuguese: “Lens”
  • Prussian: “Lens”
  • Romagnol: “Lens”
  • Romanian: “Lens”
  • Romansh: “Lens”
  • Russian: “Ланс”
  • Sardinian: “Lens”
  • Scots: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Scots: “Lens”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lens”
  • Serbian: “Lens”
  • Serbian: “Ланс”
  • Serbian: “Ленс”
  • Sicilian: “Lens”
  • Slovak: “Lens”
  • Slovenian: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Slovenian: “Lens”
  • Spanish: “Lens”
  • Swahili: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Swahili: “Lens”
  • Swedish: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Swedish: “Lens”
  • Swiss German: “Lens”
  • Talysh: “Lans”
  • Tamil: “லான்சு, பாசு-டெ-கெலை”
  • Tamil: “லான்சு”
  • Tatar: “Ланс”
  • Tumbuka: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Turkish: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Turkish: “Lens”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланс”
  • Urdu: “لانس، پا-دو-کالے”
  • Venetian: “Lens”
  • Vietnamese: “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Vietnamese: “Lens”
  • Vlaams: “Lens”
  • Volapük: “Lens”
  • Walloon: “Lens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lens, Pas-de-Calais”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lens”
  • Welsh: “Lens”
  • Wolof: “Lens”
  • Wu Chinese: “朗斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “朗斯”
  • Zulu: “Lens”
  • “Lens”

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