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| Gare de Lille Europe  FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 50.6394 / 3.0753 | Lille Europe is a SNCF railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord High Speed railway. The station is primarily used for Eurostar and SNCF TGV services although some high-speed regional trains also call at the station (...) |
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| Lille FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.6372 / 3.0633 | Lille is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille (...) |
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| Saint-Omer FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 50.7461 / 2.2617 | Saint-Omer is a commune in France. It is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais. The town is named after Saint Audomar, who brought Christianity to the area.http://www.ecatholic2000.com/butler/vol9/september39 (...) |
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| Cambrai FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.1767 / 3.2356 | Cambrai (; ; ; historically in English Camerick and Camericke) is a commune in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-prefecture of the department, Cambrai is a town which had 32,518 inhabitants in the (...) |
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| Amiens FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 49.8943 / 2.2957 | Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France. The city had a population of 136,105 according to the 2006 census (...) |
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| Rennes FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 48.1147 / -1.6794 | Rennes (; , ; Gallo: Resnn;) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department (...) |
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| Bordeaux FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 44.8379 / -0.5795 | Bordeaux (; Gascon) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 246,586 (2014). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole (...) |
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| Berck FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 50.4089 / 1.5933 | Berck, sometimes referred to as Berck-sur-Mer, is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It lies within the Marquenterre regional park, an ornithological nature reserve. (...) |
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| France FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) |
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| Calais FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 50.9481 / 1.8564 | Calais is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras (...) |
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| Saint-Nazaire FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 47.2806 / -2.2086 | Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany. The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
| 12 | Béthune FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 50.5302 / 2.6408 | Béthune (; archaic and Bethwyn historically in English) is a city in northern France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department. (...) | |
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| Tarbes FeatureType : null Elevation : 318 Lat/Lng : 43.2307 / 0.0726 | Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. It is the capital of Bigorre. It has been a commune since 1790. It was known as Turba or Tarba in Roman times. Tarbes is part of the historical region of Gascony (...) |
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| Marseille FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 43.2963 / 5.3699 | Marseille (; , ; Marseilles;) is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (...) |
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| Nantes FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 47.2181 / -1.5528 | Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt (or); is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of nearly 300,000 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of 908,815 inhabitants (...) |
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| Tours FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 47.3936 / 0.6892 | Tours is a city in the centre-west of France. It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France (although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans) (...) |
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| Bayonne FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 43.4936 / -1.475 | Bayonne (; Gascon: Baiona ; ;) is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the (...) |
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| Valence (city) FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 44.9333 / 4.8917 | Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about south of Lyon, along the railway line that runs from Paris to Marseille (...) |
| 19 | Euralille FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 50.6364 / 3.0748 | Euralille is an urban quarter in the centre of Lille, France. Conceived as a major European business district in the 1980s, it is strategically located at the intersection of the high-speed railway lines linking Paris, Brussels, and London, and incorporates the Gare de Lille Europe and Gare de Lille (...) | |
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| Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 50.4994 / 3.9839 | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Allied Command Operations (ACO). SHAPE is located at Casteau, north of the Belgian city of Mons. The commander of ACO and SHAPE is Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), a U.S (...) |
| 21 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 50.4667 / 2.7167 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais (is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais borders the English Channel (west), the North Sea (northwest), Belgium (north and east) (...) | |
| 22 | Châlons-en-Champagne FeatureType : null Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 48.9575 / 4.365 | Châlons-en-Champagne is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the department of Marne, despite being only a quarter the size of the city of Reims. Formerly called Châlons-sur-Marne, the city was officially renamed in 1998 (...) | |
| 23 | Longueau–Boulogne railway FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 49.8643 / 2.3521 | The Longueau–Boulogne railway is a French railway which runs from a junction with the Paris-Lille railway at Longueau to the coastal port of Boulogne. A double track railway it is long. Until the start of the Eurostar service from London to Paris in 1994 via LGV Nord it was the main route for the (...) | |
| 24 | Tournai FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 50.6064 / 3.3864 | Tournai (; Latin: Tornacum, Picard: Tornai), known in Dutch as Doornik and historically as Dornick in English, is a Walloon municipality of Belgium, southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. In the province of Hainaut, Tournai is part of the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai metropolitan area which had (...) | |
| 25 | Boulogne-sur-Mer FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.7264 / 1.6147 | Boulogne-sur-Mer , often called Boulogne (Latin: Gesoriacum or Bononia), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy, and the (...) | |
| 26 | Gare de Calais-Fréthun FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 50.9231 / 1.8097 | Gare de Calais-Fréthun is a SNCF international railway station in the suburbs of Calais, France. It is one of three stations serving the town; the other two are Calais-Ville in the town centre and Gare des Fontinettes in the suburbs (...) | |
| 27 | Channel Tunnel FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 51.0971 / 1.1563 | The Channel Tunnel (; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is deep below the sea bed and below sea level (...) | |
| 28 | Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 176 Lat/Lng : 45.76 / 4.8597 | Gare de la Part-Dieu (English: Part-Dieu railway station) is the primary railway station in Lyon, France. It is situated on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille railway. The train services are operated by SNCF, and Eurostar (...) | |
| 29 | Le Quesnoy FeatureType : null Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 50.2497 / 3.6383 | Le Quesnoy is a commune and small town in the east of the Nord department of northern France, accordingly its historic province is French Hainaut. It had a keynote industry in shoemaking before the late 1940s, followed by a chemical factory and dairy, giving way to its weekly market, tourism, local (...) | |
| 30 | Institut d'études politiques de Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 45.7469 / 4.8358 | The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon (or Lyon Institute of Political Studies) also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of nine Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle’s provisional government (...) | |
| 31 | Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 45.7597 / 4.8422 | Lyon (also spelled Lyons and in this case alternatively pronounced ; ;) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, about south from Paris, north from Marseille and northeast from (...) | |
| 32 | Arts et Métiers ParisTech FeatureType : edu Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8336 / 2.3583 | Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research graduate school (Grande Ecole). It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of mechanics and industrialization (...) | |
| 33 | École centrale de Lyon FeatureType : edu Elevation : 270 Lat/Lng : 45.7829 / 4.7693 | The École centrale de Lyon (ECL) is a research university in Lyon, France. Founded in 1857 by François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour in response to the increasing industrialization of France, it is one of the oldest graduate schools in France.History École centrale de Lyon http://www.ec-lyon (...) | |
| 34 | Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.3035 / 5.3798 | Marseille – Saint-Charles is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the PLM on the land of the Saint Charles Cemetery (...) | |
| 35 | Charlie Hebdo shooting FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8592 / 2.3703 | On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others (...) | |
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| Château de Chanteloup FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 47.3911 / 0.9702 | The Château de Chanteloup was an imposing 18th-century French château with elaborate gardens, compared by some contemporaries to Versailles.Watson 1966, p. 156. It was located in the Loire Valley on the south bank of the River Loire, downstream from the town of Amboise and about southwest of the (...) |
| 37 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 433 Lat/Lng : 44.0992 / 6.0175 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; ; ; PACA) is one of the 18 administrative regions of France. Its capital is Marseille. The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as (...) | |
| 38 | École des Mines de Douai FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.3752 / 3.0678 | The École des mines de Douai (École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT) since 2018) also called "École nationale supérieure des mines de Douai (Mines Douai)" (ENSMD) is a French National Graduate School of Engineering (Grande école d'ingénieurs) located in the cities of Douai and (...) | |
| 39 | Aix-Marseille University FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 43.2935 / 5.3579 | Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as Université d'Aix-Marseille) is a public research university located in Provence, southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of (...) | |
| 40 | Ledringhem FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 50.8553 / 2.4417 | Ledringhem is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is situated also in the ancient territory of the County of Flanders, in the Houtland (or woodland, with the cities of Cassel and Hazebrouck) in the Franse Westhoek (French Western corner) where French Flemish was still spoken (...) | |
| 41 | La Délivrance FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 47.2111 / -1.5237 | La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor (1867–1942). The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914. A 4 (...) | |
| 42 | Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 50.9375 / 6.9581 | Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz GmbH (English: John Maria Farina opposite Jülich's Square) is the world's oldest eau de Cologne and perfume factory. It was founded at the beginning of the 18th century by Giovanni Maria Farina (German: Johann Maria Farina), an Italian perfume maker (...) | |
| 43 | Champmol FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 47.3217 / 5.0174 | The Chartreuse de Champmol, formally the Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, was a Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Dijon, which is now in France, but in the 15th century was the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy (...) | |
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