Tourcoing

Also known as Toerkonje, Terkoeje, Tourco

Tourcoing (; ; ; ) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the third largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 99,000 inhabitants.

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Tourcoing is a commune and border city in France, situated within the Hauts-de-France region. It serves as the capital of the cantons of Tourcoing-Nord, Tourcoing-Nord-Est, Tourcoing-Sud, and Tourcoing-1. The city is located in the arrondissement of Lille and the Lille metropolis. Its earliest written record dates to 1080.

With a population of 99,165, the city has an area of 15.19 square kilometers. The population consists of 46,790 males and 50,578 females. Tourcoing shares borders with Bondues, Croix, Mouvaux, and Neuville-en-Ferrain. Gérald Darmanin is the head of government. The city is twinned with Mouscron, Mühlhausen/Thuringia, Bottrop, and Bezirk Mitte.

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Place details

Locality: Tourcoing
Region: Hauts-de-France
Country: France
Population: 99,160
Timezone: Europe/Paris

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Key facts

French commune.name: Tourcoing
French commune.commune status: Commune
French commune.image: Tourcoing hotel ville 3-4.JPG
French commune.caption: Hôtel de Ville
French commune.arrondissement: Lille
French commune.canton: Tourcoing-1 and 2
French commune.image coat of arms: Blason ville fr Tourcoing (Nord).svg
French commune.image flag: Flag of Tourcoing.svg
French commune.INSEE: 59599
French commune.postal code: 59200
French commune.mayor: Doriane Bécue
French commune.term: 2020–2026
French commune.party: DVC
French commune.intercommunality: Métropole Européenne de Lille
French commune.elevation m: 67
French commune.area km2: 15.19

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History
Population
Main sights
Transport
Notable people
Notable Startups
International relations
Twin towns - sister cities
Other forms of cooperation
See also
References
External links

Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes, Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the Métropole Européenne de Lille. To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tourcoing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.