Geography
Nord is part of the current Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea.
Situated in the north of the country along the western half of the Belgian frontier, the department is unusually long and narrow. Its principal city is Lille, which with nearby Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d'Ascq constitutes the center of a cluster of industrial and former mining towns totalling slightly over a million inhabitants. Other important cities are Valenciennes, Douai, and Dunkirk. The principal rivers are the following:
Yser, Lys, Escaut, Scarpe, Sambre
| North sea West Flanders, Belgium |
West Flanders, Belgium | Hainaut, Belgium | ||
| Pas-de-Calais | Hainaut, Belgium | |||
| Nord | ||||
| Somme | Aisne | Hainaut, Belgium |
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