Pas-de-Calais: Difference between revisions

The '''Pas-de-Calais''' ({{IPA|fr|pɑ d(ə) kalɛ|lang|Fr-Paris--Pas-de-Calais.ogg}}, "[[strait]] of [[Calais]]"; {{lang-pcd|Pas-Calés}}; also {{lang-nl|Nauw van KalesCalais}}) is a [[departments of France|department]] in north-eastern [[France]] named after the [[French language|French]] designation of the [[Strait of Dover]], which it borders. It has the most [[communes of the Pas-de-Calais department|communes]] of all the departments of France, with [[communes of the Pas-de-Calais department|890]], and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019.<ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep62.pdf Populations légales 2019: 62 Pas-de-Calais], INSEE</ref> The '''Calais Passage''' connects to the [[Port of Calais]] on the [[English Channel]]. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of [[Nord (French department)|Nord]] and [[Somme (department)|Somme]] and is connected to the English [[Counties of England|county]] of [[Kent]] via the [[Channel Tunnel]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jackson|first=Mark|date=2021-09-01|title=Colt and Getlink to Deploy New Fibre Optic Network via Channel Tunnel|url=https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/09/colt-and-getlink-to-deploy-new-fibre-optic-network-via-channel-tunnel.html|access-date=2021-09-12|website=ISPreview UK|language=en}}</ref>