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Pas-de-Calais, French name for the Strait of Dover

Pas-de-Calais: see Dover, Strait of Dover, Strait of, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the English Channel with the North Sea. It is 21 mi (34 km) wide between Dover and Cape Gris-Nez, near Calais, and is called Pas-de-Calais by the French.
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Pas-de-Calais, department, France

Pas-de-Calais (pä-də-kälā`), department (1990 pop. 1,435,000), N France, on the Strait of Dover. Arras Arras , city (1990 pop. 42,715), capital of Pas-de-Calais dept., and historic capital of Artois, N France, on the canalized Scarpe River. It is a communications, farm, and industrial center, with oil works and factories making machinery, metal products, and esparto
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Pas-de-Calais
a department of N France, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais): the part of France closest to the British Isles. Capital: Arras. Pop.: 1 451 307 (2003 est.). Area: 6752 sq. km (2633 sq. miles)

Pas-de-Calais 

a department in northern France situated on the Strait of Dover (Pas de Calais). Area, 6,800 sq km. Population, 1,425,000 (1973). The capital is Arras.

Most of the territory of Pas-de-Calais consists of the Flanders lowland and the Artois hills, which rise to an elevation of 209 m. The department is part of the northern industrial region. As of 1968, 27 percent of the working population was employed in industry and 13 percent in agriculture and fishing. Coal is mined (13 million tons in 1968) in the vicinities of Bruay, Lens, and Liévin. There is a ferrous-metallurgy industry, with plants in Lens, Isbergues, and Outreau, a chemical industry in Mazingarbe and Drocourt, and a textile industry in Calais and Arras. The department also has food-processing, paper, and cement industries, in addition to a thermoelectric power plant.

There is extensive cultivation of wheat, sugar beets, vegetables, and potatoes; swine and Flemish dairy cattle are raised. Boulogne-sur-Mer is France’s chief fishing port, and Calais is an important embarkation point for Great Britain.



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Ibrahim Al Janahi said: "Nord Pas de Calais is a well-known industrial region in France and many companies are looking to expand their operations to overseas destinations.
According to The Independent, this would be the first "official" England-France match for more than a century in a sport that, according to recent research, may not have originated in Hampshire as stubborn Englishmen insist, but in Flanders or the Pas de Calais.
On the Dover-Calais run, P&O Ferries has teamed up with four of the best hotels in the Pas de Calais region of Northern France for one and two-night breaks from pounds 105 per person, based on a car and four passengers.
 
 
 
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