The Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin is the ''
communauté d'agglomération
An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...
'', an
intercommunal structure, centred on the
cities of
Lens
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and
Liévin. It is located in the
Pas-de-Calais
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 890, and is the ...
department, in the
Hauts-de-France
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region
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, northern
France
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. It was created in January 2000.
[CA de Lens - Liévin (N° SIREN : 246200364)]
BANATIC, accessed 17 October 2024. It adopted the name Communaupole on June 25, 2004. Its area is 239.4 km
2. Its population was 241,703 in 2018, of which 31,606 in Lens and 30,423 in Liévin.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
Composition
The Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin consists of the following 36 communes:
[INSEE]
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#Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
Ablain-Saint-Nazaire () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in northern France.
Geography
A farming village located 8 miles (12 km) north of Arras, France, Arras, on the D57 road. It was r ...
# Acheville
# Aix-Noulette
# Angres
# Annay
# Avion
# Bénifontaine
# Billy-Montigny
# Bouvigny-Boyeffles
# Bully-les-Mines
# Carency
# Éleu-dit-Leauwette
# Estevelles
# Fouquières-lès-Lens
# Givenchy-en-Gohelle
# Gouy-Servins
# Grenay
# Harnes
# Hulluch
#Lens
A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (''elements'') ...
# Liévin
# Loison-sous-Lens
# Loos-en-Gohelle
# Mazingarbe
# Méricourt
# Meurchin
# Noyelles-sous-Lens
# Pont-Ã -Vendin
# Sains-en-Gohelle
# Sallaumines
# Servins
# Souchez
# Vendin-le-Vieil
# Villers-au-Bois
# Vimy
# Wingles
References
External links
Communaupole of Lens-Liévin website
Lens-Lievin
Lens-Lievin
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