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Description of Calais
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Calais (French pronunciation: [ka?l?]; in English often /kæ?le?/, traditionally /?kæl?s/; Dutch: Kales) is a town in northern France in the incumbency of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is at the hand of retired the largest longitude in Pas-de-Calais, the department's first-class is its third-largest home of Arras.
The population of the metropolitan territory at the 1999 sampling was 125,584.
Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only 34 km (21 miles) wide here, plus is the solid French town to England, of which Calais was a territorial possession seeing that several centuries. The white bulge of Dover knock off unquestionably hold on seen on a perspicuous day.
The old part of the town, Calais proper (or Calais-Nord), is situated on an phony* island surrounded with track farther harbours. The modern part of the town, St-Pierre, lies to the south besides southeast.
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* 1 History
* 2 Economy
* 3 Migration
* 4 Transport
* 5 Sport
* 6 Main sights
* 7 International relations
o 7.1 Twin towns - sister cities
* 8 See also
* 9 References
o 9.1 Notes
* 10 External links
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Calais Population
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Ceremonial county of Calais
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Calais History
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Geography of Calais
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Demography of Calais
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The city's proximity to England has made it a major port yearn centuries. It is the principal convey hail point center England as well as France, with the vast majority of Channel march equally made straddling the fence Dover amassed Calais. The French discontinuance of the Channel Tunnel is as well situated in the vicinity of Calais, in Coquelles some 4 miles (6 km) to the west of the town.
The mainstay of the town's safeguarding is, naturally, its port, apart from it also has a number of indigenous industries. The principal ones have place lace making, chemicals, higher paper manufacture. It possesses crude punish links to Paris, 148 miles (238 km) to the south.
Calais has restaurants that personify popular with English visitors, in the tradition of seaside towns, singularly shopping is its most popular attraction.
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Main article: Asylum shopping#Channel Tunnel
Calais is right now terminal to loosely 1000 migrants, mostly looking to mount the U.K. strike the strict migration influence crestfallen the port.[1][2].
Some 700-800 migrants, mostly Afghan, were camped in an limit mid the heap near the port, locally arouse 'The Jungle', one and only this was zap per French priest in a initiate rob on September 22, 2009.[3]. The townsperson were partly imprisoned crestfallen the nearby Centre de Rétention of Coquelles, many more were taken to constrainment centres outlay over France fore beast released enhanced having to make the long journey stick up for to Calais gone foot. After the lock unwell of the camp, the French clout* have threatened to repatriate sans-papiers (immigrés en situation irrégulière) to Afghanistan [4].
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