Nord

Also known as Northern Department, North

French department in Hauts-de-France

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Nord is a department (administrative region) located in northern France, in the Hauts-de-France region near the Belgian border. It matters as an important industrial and commercial area in France with significant historical and economic influence in the northern part of the country.

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Nord
Population: 2615635
Area: 5742.8
Official website: lenord.fr
Image: 2009-05-03 in Lille 01.jpg

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Commons category: Nord (French department)
inception: 1790-03-04
annual number of weddings: 5893
social media followers: 11281
P12749: Erich Fischer
P8168: Prussian State Council
native label: Nord

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Nord ( French pronunciation: [nɔʁ] ; officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. 'northern department') is a department in Hauts-de-France region, France, bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai. The modern coat of arms was inherited from the County of Flanders.

Nord is the country's most populous département. It had a population of 2,615,635 in 2023. It also contains the metropolitan region of Lille (the main city and the prefecture of the département), the fourth-largest urban area in France after Paris, Lyon and Marseille. The department is the part of France where the French Flemish dialect of Dutch has historically been spoken as a native language. Similarly, the distinct French Picard dialect Ch'ti is spoken there.