Nord (French depairtment)
French depairtment / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nord (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ]; Wast Flemish an Dutch: Noorderdepartement, Scots: Northren Depairtment) is a depairtment in the far north o Fraunce. It wis creatit frae the wastren halves o the historical coonties o Flanders an Hainaut (the eastren halves bein in Belgium), an the Bishopric o Cambrai. The modren coat o airms wis inheritit frae the Coonty o Flanders. Nord is the anerlie French département in which a Dutch dialect (French Flemish) is spoken alang wi French as a native leid. It is the kintra's maist muckle depairtment.
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Nord | |
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Prefectur biggin o the Nord depairtment, in Lille | |
Location o Nord in Fraunce | |
Coordinates: 50°23′N 03°19′E | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
Prefectur | Lille |
Subprefecturs | Avesnes- sur-Helpe Cambrai Douai Dunkirk Valenciennes |
Govrenment | |
• Preses o the General Cooncil | Patrick Kanner |
Area | |
• Total | 5742.74 km2 (2,217.28 sq mi) |
Population (1 Jan 2010 est.) | |
• Total | 2,617,939 |
• Rank | 1st |
• Density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Depairtment nummer | 59 |
Arrondissements | 6 |
Cantons | 79 |
Communes | 652 |
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuars, an lochs, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2 |
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