Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a metropolitan area in Europe around the transborder agglomeration of the French city of Lille, and the Belgian cities Kortrijk and Tournai.
It covers the local regions Lille Métropole, south-eastern West Flanders (4 districts) and Wallonie Picarde (3 districts), 147 municipalities in total. The 2008 population was 2,155,161.[1][2]
It is one of the EU-designated cross border regions under the auspices of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.[3]
References edit
- ^ List of municipalities : http://fr.eurometropolis.eu/qui-sommes-nous/territoire.html Archived 2015-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "EUROMETROPOLIS : Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai , the 1st european cross-bordrer metropolis".
- ^ "CoR - Register of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation".