
Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a metropolitan area in Europe around the
transborder agglomeration
A transborder agglomeration is an urban area, urban agglomeration or conurbation that extends into multiple sovereign states and/or dependent territory, dependent territories. It includes city-states that agglomerate with their neighbouring countr ...
of the French city 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 ...
, and the Belgian cities
Kortrijk
Kortrijk ( , ; or ''Kortrik''; ), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of We ...
and
Tournai
Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies by ...
.
It covers the local regions
Lille Métropole, south-eastern
West Flanders
West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...
(4 districts) and
Wallonie Picarde (3 districts), 147 municipalities in total. The 2008 population was 2,155,161.
It is one of the EU-designated cross-border regions under the auspices of
European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.
References
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Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai
Geography of Kortrijk
Lille
Metropolitan areas of Belgium
Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai
Roubaix
Tourcoing
Tournai