Arrondissement of Lens


The arrondissement of Lens is an arrondissement of northern France in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 50 communes. Its population is 293,991, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Lens, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
  2. Acheville
  3. Aix-Noulette
  4. Angres
  5. Annay
  6. Avion
  7. Bénifontaine
  8. Billy-Montigny
  9. Bois-Bernard
  10. Bouvigny-Boyeffles
  11. Bully-les-Mines
  12. Carency
  13. Carvin
  14. Courcelles-lès-Lens
  15. Courrières
  16. Dourges
  17. Drocourt
  18. Éleu-dit-Leauwette
  19. Estevelles
  20. Évin-Malmaison
  21. Fouquières-lès-Lens
  22. Givenchy-en-Gohelle
  23. Gouy-Servins
  24. Grenay
  25. Harnes
  26. Hénin-Beaumont
  27. Hulluch
  28. Leforest
  29. Lens
  30. Libercourt
  31. Liévin
  32. Loison-sous-Lens
  33. Loos-en-Gohelle
  34. Mazingarbe
  35. Méricourt
  36. Meurchin
  37. Montigny-en-Gohelle
  38. Noyelles-Godault
  39. Noyelles-sous-Lens
  40. Oignies
  41. Pont-à-Vendin
  42. Rouvroy
  43. Sains-en-Gohelle
  44. Sallaumines
  45. Servins
  46. Souchez
  47. Vendin-le-Vieil
  48. Villers-au-Bois
  49. Vimy
  50. Wingles

    History

The arrondissement of Lens was created in 1962 from part of the arrondissement of Béthune. In January 2007 it absorbed the two cantons of Avion and Rouvroy from the arrondissement of Arras. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Pas-de-Calais, it gained eight communes from the arrondissement of Arras, and it lost one commune to the arrondissement of Béthune.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Lens were, as of January 2015:
  1. Avion
  2. Bully-les-Mines
  3. Carvin
  4. Courrières
  5. Harnes
  6. Hénin-Beaumont
  7. Leforest
  8. Lens-Est
  9. Lens-Nord-Est
  10. Lens-Nord-Ouest
  11. Liévin-Nord
  12. Liévin-Sud
  13. Montigny-en-Gohelle
  14. Noyelles-sous-Lens
  15. Rouvroy
  16. Sains-en-Gohelle
  17. Wingles