Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

ouses for sale in this department are situated in the current region of Nord-Pas de Calais and are surrounded by the departments of Nord and Somme, the English Channel, and the North Sea.

Properties for sale in this department benefit from close proximity to the principal towns which are, on the coast, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer with ferry ports, and in Artois, Lens, Liévin, Arras, and Saint-Omer.

Pas-de-Calais is one of the most heavily populated departments of France, and yet it has no large cities. Calais has only about 80,000 inhabitants, followed closely by Arras, Boulogne-sur-Mer,Lens and Liévin.

The remaining population is primarily concentrated along the border with the department of Nord in the mining district, where a string of small towns constitutes an urban area with a population of about 1.2 million.

The center and south of the department are more rural, but still quite heavily populated, with many villages and small towns.