Nord - Pas-de-Calais (France): Departments, Major Cities & Communes

Departments

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Adm.	Capital	A (km²)	C 1982-03-04	C 1990-03-05	C 1999-03-08	E 2006-01-01	E 2009-01-01
i	Nord		Dep	NOR	Lille	5,743	2,520,526	2,531,855	2,555,020	2,565,257	2,571,940
i	Pas-de-Calais		Dep	NOR	Arras	6,671	1,412,413	1,433,203	1,441,568	1,453,387	1,461,257
i	Nord - Pas-de-Calais	NOR	Reg		Lille	12,414	3,932,939	3,965,058	3,996,588	4,018,644	4,033,197
	France	FRA			Paris	543,965	54,334,871	56,615,155	58,518,395	61,399,541	62,465,709

	Name	C C 1982-03-04	C C 1990-03-05	C C 1999-03-08	C E 2006-01-01	C E 2009-01-01
i	Armentières {Armentieres}	24,834	25,219	25,273	24,836	25,089
i	Arras	41,736	38,983	40,590	42,015	42,049
i	Béthune {Bethune}	25,508	24,556	26,000	26,472	25,766
i	Boulogne-sur-Mer	47,653	43,678	44,859	44,273	43,310
i	Bruay-la-Buissière {Bruay-la-Buissiere}	26,649	24,927	23,998	23,813	23,621
i	Calais	76,527	75,309	77,333	74,888	74,336
i	Cambrai	35,272	33,092	33,738	32,594	32,518
i	Coudekerque-Branche	23,958	23,644	24,152	22,994	22,588
i	Croix	19,386	20,231	20,638	20,926	21,195
i	Denain	21,825	19,544	20,360	20,339	20,157
i	Douai	42,576	42,175	42,796	42,766	42,461
i	Dunkerque	100,404	98,237	97,957	94,960	92,923
i	Grande-Synthe	26,231	24,362	23,247	21,408	20,901
i	Halluin	16,444	17,629	18,997	19,879	20,125
i	Hazebrouck	20,008	20,567	21,396	21,101	21,721
i	Hénin-Beaumont {Henin-Beaumont}	26,037	26,257	25,178	25,915	25,731
i	La Madeleine	22,115	21,601	22,399	22,681	22,174
i	Lambersart	28,494	28,275	28,131	28,543	28,310
i	Lens	38,244	35,017	36,206	35,583	35,830
i	Liévin {Lievin}	33,096	33,623	33,427	32,565	32,009
i	Lille	196,705	198,691	212,597	226,014	226,827
i	Loos	20,640	20,657	20,869	21,410	21,739
i	Marcq-en-Baroeul	35,278	36,601	37,177	38,939	38,819
i	Maubeuge	36,061	34,989	33,546	32,699	31,970
i	Mons-en-Baroeul	26,638	23,578	23,017	22,360	21,958
i	Roubaix	101,602	97,746	96,984	97,952	95,028
i	Tourcoing	96,908	93,765	93,540	92,357	92,389
i	Valenciennes	40,275	38,441	41,278	42,426	42,649
i	Villeneuve-d'Ascq {Villeneuve-dAscq}	59,527	65,320	65,042	61,151	63,844
i	Wattrelos	44,626	43,675	42,753	42,852	41,750

Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, France (web).
Since 2006, France computes the population from the census results of different years.