Lens, Pas-de-Calais

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Commune of Lens

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Location
Coordinates 50° 25' 56" N 02° 50' 00" E
Administration
Country France
Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department Pas-de-Calais
(sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement Lens
Canton Chief town of 3 cantons
Intercommunality Communaupole
de Lens-Liévin
Mayor Guy Delcourt
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 27 m–71 m
Land area¹ 11.57 km²
Population²
(1999)		 36,823
 - Density 3,182/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 62498/ 62300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).
France
East of Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, Lens, Hénin-Beaumont)
East of Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, Lens, Hénin-Beaumont)
Lens church
Lens church
Main shopping district
Main shopping district

Lens is a commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. It is one of France's large Picarde cities along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras, and Douai.

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Lens belongs to the communauté d'agglomération of Lens-Liévin (Communaupole) which gathers 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.

Lens, along with Douai, forms the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) of Douai-Lens, whose population at the 1999 census was 552,682.

The city is an industrial and mining centre and has a long history of coal mining. Surrounding the town are many large slag heaps.

The city supports a top-level football team, Racing Club de Lens.

Very close from there, the Vimy Memorial, is at Vimy Ridge.

Lens will also be from 2009 the location of the Louvre-Lens.

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