Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai

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Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a metropolitan area in Europe around the transborder agglomeration of the French city of Lille, and the Belgian cities Kortrijk and Tournai.

Controlled access highways

It covers the local regions Lille Métropole, south-eastern West Flanders (4 districts) and Wallonie Picarde (3 districts), 147 municipalities in total. The 2008 population was 2,155,161.[1][2]

It is one of the EU-designated cross border regions under the auspices of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.[3]

References

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  1. ^ List of municipalities : http://fr.eurometropolis.eu/qui-sommes-nous/territoire.html Archived 2015-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "EUROMETROPOLIS : Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai , the 1st european cross-bordrer metropolis".
  3. ^ "CoR - Register of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation".

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