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It belongs to the communauté d'agglomération of Lens- Liévin ( Communaupole) which gathers 36 communes, that is to say 250,000 inhabitants.

Lens, along with Douai, forms the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) of Douai-Lens, whose population at the 1999 census was 552,682.

The city is an industrial and mining centre and has a long history of coal mining. Surrounding the town are many large slag heap s. The city also supports a top-level football team, Racing Club de Lens.

Very close from there, the Vimy Memorial, is at Vimy Ridge.

1 History

2 Famous Lensois

• Émile Baslymile Basly was born it March 29 1854 in Valenciennes. He died on February 11 1928 in Lens With Arthur Lamendin, it is one of the great figures of trade unionism mining in the field of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It is illustrated in particular during strike of 18, trade unionist then mayor of the city, died there in 1928Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in mu
• Maurice GarinMaurice Garin ( March 3, 1871- February 19, 1957) was the first winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Italy but became a naturalized French citizen. He was disqualified in the 1904 Tour for taking a train through part of the route; he subsequently, first winner of Tour de FranceThis article is about the cycle race. See Tour de France (disambiguation) for other meanings. Tour de France Local name:Tour de France Region: France Date:July Type:Stage Race (Great Tour) History First Edition:1903 Number of Editions:91 First Winner: Mau, died there in 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t

3 External link

• Agglomeration of Lens-Liévin: http://www.agglo-lenslievin.fr