Calais

Calais
Calais
	Commune an toun
	Port o Calais
	Banner Coat airms
	Calais Location in Pas-de-Calais
	Coordinates: 50°56′53″N 1°51′23″E / 50.94806°N 1.85639°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Nord-Pas de Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Calaisis
Govrenment
• Mayor	[atacha Bouchart (UMP)
Area
• Total	33.5 km2 (12.9 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	74,817
Demonym(s)	Calaisiens
Time zone	CET (UTC+01)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02)
Website	Website
	INSEE

Calais (French pronunciation: [ka'lɛ]; in Inglis uisually /ˈkæleɪ/ CAL-ay, tradeetionally /ˈkælɨs/; Dutch: Kales) is a toun an muckle ferry port in Northren Fraunce i the depairtment o Pas-de-Calais, o whilk it is a sub-prefectur. In aulder Scots scrievin it wis cried Calice. Calais is the mucklest toun in Pas-de-Calais, awtho the depairtment's caipital is its third-mucklest toun o Arras. Thair wis 125,584 indwallers i the metropolitan area at the census o 1999. Calais owerleuks the Strait o Dover, the maist nairra pynt o the Inglis Channel, whilk is jist 34 km (21 mi) wide here, an is the closest French toun tae Ingland. The White Cliffs o Dover can easy be seen on a bricht day frae Calais. Calais is a muckle port fir ferries atween Fraunce an Ingland, an syne 1994 the Channel Tunnel haes linkit tae nearbu Coquelles frae Folkestone bi rail.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Calais is twinnt wi:

Bardejov, Slovakie, syne 6 September 2002 Brăila, Romanie, syne 8 Mey 2002 Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalie, Germany, syne 25 Juin 1964^[1]^[2] Dover, Kent, Ingland, syne Juin 1973	Fanga, Mali Riga, Latvie, syne 19 November 1976^[3] Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, syne December 1971

Notes

↑ "Cities Twinned with Duisburg". 2009 Duisberg City Council. Retrieved 9 September 2009. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)
↑ "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2010. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)
↑ "Twin cities of Riga". Riga City Council. Archived frae the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 27 Julie 2009.

Freemit airtins

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Offeecial wabsteid (in French)
Agglomération Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
Info about the port and city Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
Info about the port and city (in Inglis)
Port of Calais

[Duisburg-1] "Cities Twinned with Duisburg". 2009 Duisberg City Council. Retrieved 9 September 2009. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)

[RuhrTwins2010-2] "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2010. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)

["Riga"-3] "Twin cities of Riga". Riga City Council. Archived frae the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 27 Julie 2009.

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Calais
Commune an toun
Port o Calais
Banner Coat airms
Calais Location in Pas-de-Calais
Coordinates: 50°56′53″N 1°51′23″E / 50.94806°N 1.85639°E / 50.94806; 1.85639
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Nord-Pas de Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Calaisis
Govrenment
• Mayor	[atacha Bouchart (UMP)
Area
• Total	33.5 km² (12.9 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	74,817
Demonym(s)	Calaisiens
Time zone	CET (UTC+01)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02)
Website	Website
INSEE