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Rinxent (; vls, Erningsem) is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, "strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of ...
department in the
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region of
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Geography

Rinxent is a farming and light industrial town, situated some northeast of Boulogne, on the D191 road.


Population

The inhabitants are called ''Rinxentois''.


Places of interest

* Two churches, both dating from the nineteenth century. * A nineteenth century Château. * Traces of an old castle. * A museum devoted to
marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...
, quarried in the commune.


See also

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Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 890 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official town website
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History of Rinxent
Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub