The Canton of Avion is a

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situated in the department of the

Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) 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 France, with 890, and is the ...

and in the

Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...

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of northern

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Composition

At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 2 to 4

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:Décret n° 2014-233 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Pas-de-Calais
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Acheville Acheville () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Geography Acheville is situated some 4 miles (7 km) southeast of Lens, on the D33. Population See also Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The foll ...

Avion Avion or Avión may refer to: Businesses * Avion Corporation, the first of Jack Northrop's aviation firms * Avion Express, a Lithuanian airline * Avion Group, an Icelandic investment firm * Avion Shopping Park, a shopping centre in the Ružinov b ...

* Méricourt *

Sallaumines Sallaumines (; or ''Sallau'') is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. Administration Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabita ...

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