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The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic . The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Métropole Européenne de Lille. Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque. Communauté d'agglomération de Cambrai.
Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972. France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located. The département numbers were assigned alphabetically between 1860 ...
Geography[edit] Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to ...
Maubeuge ( French pronunciation: [mobøʒ]; historical Dutch: Mabuse or Dutch: Malbode; Picard: Maubeuche) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. [3] It is situated on both banks of the Sambre (here canalized), 36 km (22 mi) east of Valenciennes and about 9 km (5.6 mi) from the Belgian border.
INSEE /Postal code. 59220 /59155. Elevation. 30–58 m (98–190 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Faches-Thumesnil ( French pronunciation: [faʃ tymenil]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
INSEE /Postal code. 59343 /59810. Elevation. 35–58 m (115–190 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lesquin ( French pronunciation: [lekɛ̃] [3]) is a commune in the department of Nord, northern France. [4]
The region's interim name Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie was a hyphenated placename, created by hyphenating the merged regions' names—Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie—in alphabetical order. On 14 March 2016, well ahead of the 1 July deadline, the regional council decided on Hauts-de-France as the region's permanent name.
Bergues ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁɡ]; Dutch: Sint-Winoksbergen; West Flemish: Bergn) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. [3] It is situated 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) to the south of Dunkirk and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Belgian border. Locally it is referred to as "the other Bruges in Flanders ".