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Coordinates: 50°25′56″N 2°50′00″E / 50.4322222222°N 2.83333333333°E / 50.4322222222; 2.83333333333

Commune of Lens
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Location
Lens, Pas-de-Calais is located in France
Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Administration
Country France
Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Lens
Canton Chief town of 3 cantons
Intercommunality Communaupole
de Lens-Liévin
Mayor Guy Delcourt
(2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation 27–71 m (89–230 ft)
Land area1 11.57 km2 (4.47 sq mi)
Population2 36,257  (2006)
 - Density 3,134 /km2 (8,120 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 62498/ 62300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Lens (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃s]  ( listen)) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is one of France's large Picarde cities along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras, and Douai.

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[edit] Metropolitan area

Lens belongs to the intercommunality of Lens-Liévin, which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000. Lens, along with Douai, forms the metropolitan area of Douai-Lens, whose population at the 1999 census was 552,682.

[edit] Economy

The city is an industrial and has a long history of coal mining. Surrounding the town are many large slag heaps, evidence of over a hundred years of mining, which came to an end in the 1960s.

The city supports a top-level football team, Racing Club de Lens.

[edit] History

At Vimy, a small town very close to Lens, are the Vimy Memorial and Vimy Ridge.

From 2009, Lens will also be the location of the Louvre-Lens.

[edit] Notable people

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East of Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, Lens, Hénin-Beaumont)

Lens church

Main shopping district

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