Calais
Calais | |
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Commune an toun | |
 Port o Calais | |
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| Coordinates: 50°56′53″N 1°51′23″E / 50.94806°N 1.85639°E | |
| Kintra |  Fraunce |
| Region | Nord-Pas de Calais |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| Arrondissement | Calais |
| Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération du Calaisis |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | [atacha Bouchart (UMP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 33.5 km2 (12.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 74,817 |
| Demonym(s) | Calaisiens |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02) |
| Website | Website |
| INSEE | |
Calais (French pronunciation: [ka'lɛ]; in Inglis uisually /ˈkæleɪ/ CAL-ay, tradeetionally /ˈkælɨs/; Dutch: Kales) is a toun an major ferry port in Northren Fraunce in the depairtment o Pas-de-Calais, o which it is a sub-prefectur. Awtho Calais is bi far the lairgest ceety in Pas-de-Calais, the depairtment's caipital is its third-lairgest ceety o Arras. The population o the metropolitan aurie at the 1999 census wis 125,584. Calais owerleuks the Strait o Dover, the narroaest pynt in the Inglis Channel, which is anerlie 34 km (21 mi) wide here, an is the closest French toun tae Ingland. The White Cliffs o Dover can easy be seen on a clear day frae Calais. Calais is a major port for ferries atween Fraunce an Ingland, an syne 1994 the Channel Tunnel haes linkit tae nearbu Coquelles frae Folkestone bi rail.
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Calais is twinned wi:
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- ↑ "Cities Twinned with Duisburg". 2009 Duisberg City Council. Retrieved 9 September 2009. freemit airtin in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Retrieved 2 October 2010. freemit airtin in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Twin cities of Riga". Riga City Council. Retrieved 27 Julie 2009.
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Wikisource haes the text o the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle Calais (France). |
- Offeecial wabsteid (in French)
- Agglomération (in French)
- Info about the port and city Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- Info about the port and city (in Inglis)
- Port of Calais