Pas-de-Calais
Sign in to saveThe Pas-de-Calais (, 'strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 887, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,457,905 in 2023. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
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Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France that borders the Strait of Dover and includes the Port of Calais on the English Channel. It is notable for having more local communes than any other French department and is the 8th most populous region in France, with a 2023 population of nearly 1.46 million people.
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- Presidential elections 2nd round
- Current National Assembly Representatives
- National Assembly Representatives (2017 to 2022)
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The Pas-de-Calais (, 'strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 887, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,457,905 in 2023. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
==History== Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni. During the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman practice of co-opting Germanic tribes to provide military and defence services along the route from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that persisted until the eighth century.