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Encyclopedia > Le Portel

Le Portel is a commune and the chief town of a canton of northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais department, arrondissement of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It belongs to the communauté d'agglomération Boulogne Côte d'Opale which gathers 22 communes. Map of the 36,568 communes of metropolitan France. ... The following is a list of the 77 cantons (districts) of the Pas-de-Calais department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: // Arras-Nord Arras-Ouest Arras-Sud Aubigny-en-Artois Auxi-le-Château Avesnes-le-Comte Avion Bapaume Beaumetz-lès-Loges Bertincourt Croisilles Dainville Heuchin Marquion Méricourt... Pas-de-Calais is a département in northern France named after the strait which it borders. ... Departments (French: IPA: ) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... The arrondissement of Boulogne-sur-Mer is an arrondissement of France, located in the Pas-de-Calais département, of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région. ... A communauté dagglomération is a metropolitan government structure in France, created by the Loi Chevénement in 1999. ... The Communauté dagglomération du Boulonnais, also called Boulogne Côte dOpale, is a Communauté dagglomération in the Pas-de-Calais département, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région of northern France. ...


The postal code is 62480.


Population (1999): 10,866 inhabitants for the commune and 19,694 inhabitants for the canton.


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Coordinates: 50°42′N, 1°34′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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