Laventie
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Commune of Laventie |
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Location | |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
Department | Pas-de-Calais |
Arrondissement | Béthune |
Canton | Laventie |
Intercommunality | Communauté de communes Flandre Lys |
Mayor | Roger Douez (2001-2008) |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 15 m–20 m (avg. 18 m) |
Land area¹ | 18.13 km² |
Population² (1999) |
4,383 |
- Density | 241/km² (1999) |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 62491/ 62840 |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Laventie is a commune and the chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais département, arrondissement of Béthune, in the north of France.
Population (1999): 4,450 inhabitants for the commune and 16,765 inhabitants for the canton.
[edit] Twinning
Laventie is twinned with Iserlohn, Germany since 1975