Country France Department Pas-de-Calais Seat Sains-en-Gohelle Commune 6 | Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais Arrondissement Lens Communes 6 | |
The canton of Sains-en-Gohelle is a former canton situated in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
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Geography
The canton is organised around Sains-en-Gohelle in the arrondissement of Lens. The altitude varies from 39 m (Sains-en-Gohelle) to 192 m (Bouvigny-Boyeffles) for an average altitude of 102m.
Composition
The canton comprised six communes and a total of 20,036 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
References
Canton of Sains-en-Gohelle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA