Calais
Calais | |
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Commune an toun | |
 Port o Calais | |
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  Calais Location in Pas-de-Calais | |
| 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 muckle ferry port in Northren Fraunce i the depairtment o Pas-de-Calais, o whilk it is a sub-prefectur. In aulder Scots scrievin it wis cried Calice. Calais is the mucklest toun in Pas-de-Calais, awtho the depairtment's caipital is its third-mucklest toun o Arras. Thair wis 125,584 indwallers i the metropolitan area at the census o 1999. Calais owerleuks the Strait o Dover, the maist nairra pynt o the Inglis Channel, whilk is jist 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 bricht day frae Calais. Calais is a muckle port fir ferries atween Fraunce an Ingland, an syne 1994 the Channel Tunnel haes linkit tae nearbu Coquelles frae Folkestone bi rail.
Internaitional relations
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Notes
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|publisher=(help) - ↑ "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2010. freemit airtin in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Twin cities of Riga". Riga City Council. Archived frae the original on 4 December 2008. 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 Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine (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