Lens, Pas-de-Calais Département, Hauts-de-France, France
🇫🇷 Lens is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France. Lens belongs to the intercommunality of Lens-Liévin, which consists of 36 communes. Lens, along with Douai, forms the metropolitan area of Douai-Lens.
The last coal mine in Lens closed in 1986. Since 2012, Lens has been the location of the Louvre-Lens art museum.
Transport The Lens railway station, built in 1927, is served by regional trains towards Lille, Arras, Douai, Dunkirk, Calais and Valenciennes. It is also connected to the TGV network, with high speed trains to Paris. It is served by the Lens-Béthune bus network, with bus services running across Lens and connecting it to nearby towns.
Europe/Paris/North
Lens has a population of over 36,000 people. Lens also forms the centre of the wider Douai-Lens metropolitan area which has a population of over 540,981 people.
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🇵🇱 Tarnowskie Góry 50.445
🇺🇦 Solomianskyi 50.45
🇩🇿 Aïn Bénian 2.917
Locations Near: Lens 2.82564,50.4308
🇫🇷 Béthune 2.639,50.529 d: 17.1
🇫🇷 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 3.145,50.623 d: 31.1
🇫🇷 Roubaix 3.182,50.69 d: 38.3
Antipodal to: Lens -177.174,-50.431
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