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319.3 square kilometres (123.28 sq mi) Established. June 8, 1983. Governing body. SEPAQ. Saguenay Fjord National Park ( French: parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a provincial park located in Quebec, Canada. [1] In the regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Charlevoix, Côte-Nord, and Bas-Saint-Laurent, the park is situated along the eastern ...
The Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (English: Quebec Outdoor Establishments Company), also known as Sépaq, is the agency of the Government of Quebec that manages parks and wildlife reserves. Sépaq falls under the authority of the Minister of Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs (Sustainable development ...
These codes (numbering around 17000 in France) are grouped by areas known as elementary dialing area codes (such as 420 for all of France, and 412 for the mainland). Note 3 : Area codes don't consider newer regions. Thus, Occitania is split between two area codes: 04 forLanguedoc-Roussillon and 05 for Midi-Pyrénées.
The national parks of Quebec are provincial parks created by the government of Quebec to protect territories representative of natural regions of the province or sites of exceptional character, while making them accessible to the public for education and/or recreation. As of 2023, there are 28 such parks in Quebec, which protect an area of ...
Geography[edit] Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to ...
Cassel ( French pronunciation: [kasɛl]; Dutch: Kassel) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. [3] Built on a prominent hill overlooking French Flanders, the town has existed since Roman times. It was developed by the Romans into an important urban centre and was the focus of a network of roads, which are still in use today ...
Website. www.nordpasdecalais.fr. Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( French pronunciation: [nɔʁ pɑ d (ə) kalɛ] ⓘ ); Picard: Nord-Pas-Calés ); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. [2] It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
In 2015, the Gare du Nord saw more than 700,000 passengers per day. The current Gare du Nord was designed by French architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff, while the original complex was constructed between 1861 and 1864 on behalf of the Chemin de Fer du Nord company. The station replaced an earlier and much smaller terminal sharing the same name ...