Courrières | |
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Coordinates: 50°27′31″N 2°56′53″E / 50.4586°N 2.9481°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Pas-de-Calais |
Arrondissement | Lens |
Canton | Carvin |
Intercommunality | CA Hénin-Carvin |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Pilch [1] |
Area 1 | 8.63 km2 (3.33 sq mi) |
Population (2021)
[2] | 10,199 |
• Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+02:00 ( CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code |
62250 /62710 |
Elevation | 22–38 m (72–125 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Courrières (French pronunciation: [kuʁjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. [3]
An ex- coalmining commune, now a light industrial and farming town, situated some 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Lens, at the junction of the D46 and D919 roads and next to the A1 autoroute. The Lens canal and the canalized river Deûle forms threequarters of the borders of the commune.
The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which resulted in 1,099 deaths on 10 March 1906. All the regions' coalmines were closed by 1970. It was the site of a massacre in 1940.
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Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 9,296 | — |
1975 | 12,491 | +4.31% |
1982 | 12,612 | +0.14% |
1990 | 11,376 | −1.28% |
1999 | 10,588 | −0.79% |
2007 | 10,362 | −0.27% |
2012 | 10,530 | +0.32% |
2017 | 10,512 | −0.03% |
Source: INSEE [4] |
Courrières is twinned with: