Pas-de-Calais

Received from: France
Category: Choose a country RR
Date: March 2012
Time of travelling: 3 days

Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. Pas-de-Calais is in the current region of Nord-Pas de Calais and is surrounded by the departments of Nord and Somme, the English Channel, and the North Sea. Its principal towns are, on the coast, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and in Artois, Lens, Liévin, Arras, and Saint-Omer.