France Guide - Department du Pas-de-Calais

Départment du Pas-de-Calais
The Pas-de-Calais was created from parts of the former provinces of Boulonnais, Ponthieu and Artois.
It has a surface area of 6,671 km², a population of 1,442,000 inhabitants, and is divided into seven administrative districts (arrondissements in French) for a total of 77 cantons and 894 municipalities.
It borders the English Channel and the North Sea, and the départments of the Nord and Somme.
Like in the Nord, the population of the Pas-de-Calais is mostly of Germanic descent (Frankish, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian). Many place names between Boulogne, Calais and St Omer have obvious Flemish origins (e.g. Berck, Wacqinghen, Hermelinghen, Nabringhen, Rodelinghen, Leubringhen, Hervelinghen, Bezinghem, Maringhem, Verhocq).
Touristic places
Arras
Béthune
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Calais

French Cities (North)
Paris
Amiens
Arras
Bavay
Beauvais
Béthune
Boulogne
Calais
Cambrai
Charleville-Mézières
Colmar
Douai
Dunkirk
Epinal
Laon
Lille
Maubeuge
Metz
Nancy
Noyon
Reims
Rethel
Sedan
Senlis
Soissons
Strasbourg
Valenciennes
Verdun

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