Sallaumines
Sallaumines | |
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 Town hall of Sallaumines | |
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  Sallaumines  Sallaumines | |
| Coordinates: 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 (2021)[2] | 9,650 |
| • 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]; Picard: Sallaumine or Sallau) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.[3]
Administration
[edit]Sallaumines 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.
Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 14,768 | — |
| 1975 | 12,971 | −1.84% |
| 1982 | 12,081 | −1.01% |
| 1990 | 11,036 | −1.12% |
| 1999 | 10,677 | −0.37% |
| 2007 | 10,466 | −0.25% |
| 2012 | 9,621 | −1.67% |
| 2017 | 9,715 | 0.19% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
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:[5]
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.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Villes jumelées". ville-sallaumines.fr (in French). Sallaumines. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
External links
[edit]
- Communauté d'Agglomération de Lens-Liévin (in French)
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