Title: Lille
Content:  Lille (, ; Rijsel ; ; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, 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 Métropole Européenne de Lille. As of 2017, Lille had a population of 232,787 within its administrative limits, and Lille is the first city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille with a population of 1,146,320, making it the fourth-largest urban area in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. More broadly, it belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk, 
Title: Lille, Belgium
Content:  Lille is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Gierle, Lille proper, Poederlee, and Wechelderzande. On January 1, 2015, Lille had a total population of 16,386. The total area is 59.40 km² which gives a population density of 276 inhabitants per km². The Krawatencross is a cyclo-cross race held every February in Lille.
Title: Lille
Content:  A former major mechanical, food industry and textile manufacturing centre as well as a retail and finance center, Lille is the largest city of a conurbation, built like a network of cities: Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve-d'Ascq. The conurbation forms the Métropole Européenne de Lille which is France's fourth-largest urban conglomeration with a 2016 population of over 1.15 million.
Title: Lille Airport
Content:  Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille ) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km south-southeast of Lille, a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department. The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille. It is the 12th busiest French airport in number of passengers: around 970,000 passengers in 2001 and 1,397,637 passengers in 2012. In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.
Title: Lille
Content:  largest in France) and the arrival of the TGV and then the Eurostar in 1994 put Lille at the heart of the major European capitals. The development of its international airport, annual events such as the Braderie de Lille in early September (attracting three million visitors), the development of a student and university center (with more than 110,000 students, the third largest in France behind Paris and Lyon), its ranking as City of Art and History since in 2004 and the events of Lille 2004 (European Capital of Culture) and Lille 3000 are the main symbols of this revival. The European metropolis of Lille was awarded the "World Design Capital 2020".
Title: Métropole Européenne de Lille
Content:  The Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL; "European Metropolis of Lille") is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities (Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille. It is located in the Nord department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France – bordering both the Flemish and Walloon regions of Belgium. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine de Lille, and covers that part of the Lille metropolitan area that lies in France. Its population was 1,154,103 in 2014 (the fourth largest urban area in France after Paris, Lyon and Marseille), of which 238,381 in Lille proper. The annual budget of the métropole is €1,865 billion (2018).
Title: Lille
Content:  and Menin, which gave birth in January 2008 to the Eurometropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai, the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), which has more than 2.1 million inhabitants. Nicknamed in France the "Capital of Flanders", Lille and its surroundings belong to the historical region of Romance Flanders, a former territory of the county of Flanders that is not part of the linguistic area of West Flanders. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and 
Title: Lille
Content:  Lille was chosen as European Capital of Culture in 2004, along with the Italian city of Genoa. Lille and Roubaix were affected by the 2005 riots, like all of France's other urban centres. In 2007 and again in 2010, Lille was awarded the label "Internet City". The Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College was demolished in February 2021.
Title: Timeline of Lille
Content: 2001 ; March: held. ; Martine Aubry becomes mayor. ; 2003 - Institut technologique européen d'entrepreneuriat et de management established. ; 2004 - Lille designated a European Capital of Culture. ; 2006 - Population: 226,014. ; 2009 - Université Lille Nord de France formed. ; 2011 - Population: 227,533. ; 2014 - March: held. ; 2015 - December: 2015 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie regional election held. ; 2016 - Lille becomes part of the Hauts-de-France region. 
Title: Lille
Content:  Lille is the third-largest French river port after Paris and Strasbourg. The river Deûle is connected to regional waterways with over 680 km of navigable waters. The Deûle connects to Northern Europe via the river Scarpe and the river Scheldt (towards Belgium and the Netherlands), and internationally via the Lys (to Dunkerque and Calais). Shipping statistics

Question: What is Lille the capital of?
Answer: Nord.
Northern Department.
North.
Département du Nord.
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