Lille
city and commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France, Northern France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lille is a city in the northern part of France with a population of about 226,800 inhabitants. It is the capital of the region Hauts-de-France and the Nord
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Prefecture and commune | |
 From top to bottom, left to right: the Lille Tower, some towers of Euralille, the Rue de la Clef in Old Lille, the Place du Général-de-Gaulle, the Shangri-La tulip sculpture for Lille 2004, the Porte de Paris with the belfry of the City Hall and Lille-Flandres train station | |
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Location of Lille  | |
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| Coordinates: 50°37′40″N 3°03′30″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Lille |
| Canton | Lille-1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 |
| Intercommunality | European Metropolis of Lille |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Martine Aubry[1] (PS) |
| Area 1 | 34.8 km2 (13.4 sq mi) |
| • Urban (2020[2]) | 446.7 km2 (172.5 sq mi) |
| • Metro (2020[3]) | 1,666.4 km2 (643.4 sq mi) |
| Population | 234,475 |
| • Rank | 10th in France |
| • Density | 6,700/km2 (17,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban (Jan. 2020[5]) | 1,053,636 |
| • Urban density | 2,400/km2 (6,100/sq mi) |
| • Metro (Jan. 2020[6]) | 1,515,061 |
| • Metro density | 910/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59350 /59000, 59800 |
| Website | www |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
department., and is not far from the border with Belgium, where in Dutch it is called Rijsel. About two million people live in the urban area (conurbation) shared with Kortrijk and Tournai, which is the fifth largest in France behind Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Toulouse.
Lille has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
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There are two big railway stations in Lille with many trains to and from different places around France and Belgium. Most of these serve Lille-Flandres station and are operated by SNCF, including the TGV high-speed service. The other big station, Lille-Europe, has Eurostar trains to and from Brussels, Paris, and St Pancras station in London via the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom.
Public transport in Lille is made up of buses, two metro lines, and two tram lines to the nearby towns of Tourcoing and Roubaix. The metro system is one of the first in the world that does not have drivers.
Lille is twinned with:[7]
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