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 ...
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...
Béthune
Béthune ( ; archaic and ''Bethwyn'' historically in English) is a town in northern France, Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department.
Geography
Béthune is located in the Provinces of Fran ...
and west of
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
, on the D341, D90e and D90 roads.
It is surrounded by the communes Westrehem, Rely and
Auchy-au-Bois
Auchy-au-Bois () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in a Hauts-de-France region of France.
Geography
A farming village situated west of Béthune and west of Lille, at the junction of the D94 ...
. Ligny-lès-Aire is located 20 km northwest of
Bruay-la-Buissière
Bruay-la-Buissière (; , ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region in northern France.
Geography
It is a former coalmining town some southwest o ...
, the largest city nearby.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
* An ancient
windmill
A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery.
Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern period ...
.
See also
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Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
The following is a list of the 887 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):