Noyelles-sous-Lens | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Noyelles-sous-Lens.svg |
Arrondissement: | Lens |
Canton: | Harnes |
Insee: | 62628 |
Postal Code: | 62221 |
Mayor: | Alain Roger[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Lens-Liévin |
Coordinates: | 50.4311°N 2.8736°W |
Elevation Min M: | 23 |
Elevation Max M: | 43 |
Area Km2: | 3.72 |
Noyelles-sous-Lens (pronounced as /fr/, literally Noyelles under Lens) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.[2] It is 3km (02miles) east of the centre of Lens.
Noyelles-sous-Lens belongs to the Agglomeration community of Lens – Liévin, which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.
The Courrières mine disaster on March 10, 1906, affected Noyelles-sous-Lens.
Noyelles-sous-Lens is twinned with:
Noyelles-sous-Lens was the birthplace of Edita Piekha (born 1937), Russian actress and singer of French and Polish heritage.