Sallaumines
Sallaumines | |
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![]() Town hall of Sallaumines | |
Coordinates: 50°25′13″N 2°51′47″E / 50.4203°N 2.8631°ECoordinates: 50°25′13″N 2°51′47″E / 50.4203°N 2.8631°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Pas-de-Calais |
Arrondissement | Lens |
Canton | Avion |
Intercommunality | CA Lens-Liévin |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Christian Pedowski[1] |
Area 1 | 3.82 km2 (1.47 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[2] | 9,594 |
• Density | 2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 62771 /62430 |
Elevation | 27–54 m (89–177 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Sallaumines (French pronunciation: [salomin]) is a commune of northern France.
Administration[edit]
Sallaumines is located in the Pas-de-Calais department. It belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.
History[edit]
The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines.
On 18 June 1916 Max Immelmann, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.
Geography[edit]
Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast, Avion to the southwest, Lens to the west, Loison-sous-Lens to the north, Harnes to the northeast and Montigny-en-Gohelle to the east.
Transportation[edit]
The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.
Twin towns - sister cities[edit]
Sallaumines is twinned with:[3]
Lugau, Germany
Torez, Ukraine
Trbovlje, Slovenia
Wodzisław Śląski, Poland
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
- ^ "Villes jumelées". ville-sallaumines.fr (in French). Sallaumines. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
External links[edit]
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