Lille

Lille is a city in the northern part of France with a population of about 226,800 inhabitants. It is the capital of the region Hauts-de-France and the Nord

department., and is not far from the border with Belgium, where in Dutch it is called . About two million people live in the urban area (conurbation) shared with Kortrijk and Tournai, which is the fifth largest in France behind Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Toulouse.


 Climate 
Lille has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
 Education 
 École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies
 École spéciale de mécanique et électricité
 EDHEC Business School
 E-Artsup
 IÉSEG School of Management
 Institut catholique d'arts et métiers
 Institut supérieur européen de gestion group
 Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action


 Transport 
There are two big railway stations in Lille with many trains to and from different places around France and Belgium. Most of these serve  station and are operated by SNCF, including the TGV high-speed service. The other big station, , has Eurostar trains to and from Brussels, Paris, and St Pancras station in London via the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom.

Public transport in Lille is made up of buses, two metro lines, and two tram lines to the nearby towns of Tourcoing and Roubaix. The metro system is one of the first in the world that does not have drivers.

Sister cities
Lille is twinned with:http://www.mairie-lille.fr/fr/Votre_Mairie/Relations_internationales/Jumelages  (sister cities in french)

 Liège, Belgium, since 1958
 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, since 1958
 Turin, Italy, since 1958
 Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 1958
 Cologne, Germany, since 1958
 Leeds, United Kingdom, since 1968
 Saint-Louis, Senegal, since 1978
 Kharkiv, Ukraine, since 1978 Valladolid, Spain, since 1987
 Safed, Israel, since 1988
 Buffalo, United States, since 1988
 Erfurt, Germany, since 1989
 Nablus, Palestinian National Authority, since 1998
 Oujda, Morocco, since 2005
 Haïfa, Israel, since 2008
 Wrocław, Poland, since 2009

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