Calais (fra)

Calais

Calais ranks 1,326th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nevers, Pescara, and Ålesund. Memorable people born in Calais include Gérard Debreu, Yvonne de Gaulle, and Ford Madox Brown. Memorable people who died in Calais include Emma, Lady Hamilton, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, and Jules Vandooren. Calais has been the birth place of many soccer players, and economists and the death place of many actors, and politicians. Calais is located in France.

Calais is a French port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. The population of the city proper is 67,544; that of the urban area is 144,625 (2020). Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only 34 km (21 mi) wide here, and is the closest French town to England. The White Cliffs of Dover can easily be seen on a clear day from Calais. Calais is a major port for ferries between France and England, and since 1994, the Channel Tunnel has linked nearby Coquelles to Folkestone by rail. Read more on Wikipedia