Sallaumines, Pas-de-Calais Département, Hauts-de-France, France

Administration | History | Geography | Transportation

🇫🇷 Sallaumines is a commune of northern France. Sallaumines is located in the Pas-de-Calais department.

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Administration[edit] Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes.

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History[edit] The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines. On 18 June 1916 Max Immelmann, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.

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Geography[edit] Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast, Avion to the southwest, Lens to the west, Loison-sous-Lens to the north, Harnes to the northeast and Montigny-en-Gohelle to the east.

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Transportation[edit] The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.

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Sallaumines has a population of over 9,654 people. Sallaumines also forms part of the wider Lens metropolitan area which has a population of over 367,839 people. It is also a part of the larger Pas-de-Calais Département. Sallaumines is situated near .

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Sallaumines has links with:

🇩🇪 Lugau, Germany 🇺🇦 Toretsk, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Torez, Ukraine 🇸🇮 Trbovlje, Slovenia 🇵🇱 Wodzisław Śląski, Poland
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Antipodal to Sallaumines is: -177.136,-50.42

Locations Near: Sallaumines 2.86367,50.4204

🇫🇷 Lens 2.826,50.431 d: 2.9  

🇫🇷 Liévin 2.779,50.423 d: 6  

🇫🇷 Arras 2.782,50.293 d: 15.3  

🇫🇷 Douai 3.083,50.368 d: 16.6  

🇫🇷 Béthune 2.639,50.529 d: 20  

🇫🇷 Lille 3.063,50.637 d: 27.9  

🇫🇷 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 3.145,50.623 d: 30.1  

🇫🇷 Roubaix 3.182,50.69 d: 37.5  

🇫🇷 Tourcoing 3.159,50.722 d: 39.5  

🇧🇪 Ypres 2.883,50.85 d: 47.8  

Antipodal to: Sallaumines -177.136,-50.42

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16754.5  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15954.5  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15917.7  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15614.5  

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🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11847.6  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11835.8  

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