Calais

Calais
Commune an toun
Port o Calais
Banner Coat o airms
Calais Location in Pas-de-Calais
Calais Location in Fraunce
Coordinates: 50°56′53″N 1°51′23″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
• Tot	33.5 km2 (12.9 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Tot	74,817
Demonym	Calaisiens
Time zone	CET (UTC+01)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02) (UTC)
Website	Website
INSEE

Calais (French pronunciation: [ka'lɛ]; in English usually /ˈkæleɪ/ CAL-ay, traditionally /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. Although 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 point 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 easily be seen on a clear day frae Calais. Calais is a major port for ferries atween Fraunce an Ingland, an since 1994 the Channel Tunnel haes linkit tae nearbu Coquelles frae Folkestone bi rail.

Internaitional relations

See also: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Fraunce

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Calais is twinned wi:

Bardejov, Slovakie, syne 6 September 2002 Brăila, Romanie, since 8 Mey 2002 Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalie, Germany, syne 25 Juin 1964 Dover, Kent, Ingland, syne Juin 1973

Fanga, Mali Riga, Latvie, syne 19 November 1976 Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, since December 1971

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid (French)
• Agglomération (French)
• Info about the port and city (French)
• Info about the port and city (Inglis)
• Port of Calais