France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
Métropole Européenne de Lille
The Métropole Européenne de Lille (, MEL; ) is the , an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities ( Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille. It is located in ...
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Fretin junction
It contains the ''Fretin triangle'', a high speed
flying junction
A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "gr ...
joining the
HSL 1
The HSL 1 (, ) is a high-speed rail line which connects Brussels, Belgium, with the LGV Nord at the Belgium–France border. It is long with of dedicated high-speed tracks and of modernised lines. Service began on 14 December 1997.
The line h ...
railway line from Brussels to the
LGV Nord
The (), typically shortened to LGV Nord, is a French -long high-speed rail line, opened in 1993, that connects Paris to the Belgium–France border, Belgian border and the Channel Tunnel via Lille.
With a maximum speed of , the line appreciably ...
from Paris to the Channel Tunnel.
Population
Notable people
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Mathieu Debuchy
Mathieu Debuchy (; born 28 July 1985) is a French former professional Association football, footballer who played as a right-back.
Debuchy started his senior career at Lille OSC, Lille, where he won a Ligue 1 and Coupe de France double in the 2 ...
(born 1985) a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
player.
Heraldry
See also
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Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):