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General
Lille
Lille (French pronunciation: [lil] ( listen); Dutch: Rijsel [ˈrɛi̯səɫ]) is the largest city in French Flanders. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in France after those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium. It is the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department.
The Lille area covers an area of 34.8 km2 Total population of 226,827 Density of 6,518 / km2 Time Zone : CET (GMT +1)
Political History
Economy
A former major mechanical, food industry and textile manufacturing centre as well as a retail and finance center, Lille forms the heart of a larger conurbation, regrouping Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d'Ascq, which is France's 4th-largest urban conglomeration with a 1999 population of over 1.1 million.
Revenues and taxes[edit]
For centuries, Lille, a city of merchants, has displayed a wide range of incomes: great wealth and poverty have lived side by side, especially until the end of the 1800s. This contrast was noted by Victor Hugo in 1851 in his poem Les Châtiments: « Caves de Lille ! on meurt sous vos plafonds de pierre ! » ("Cellars of Lille: there is death below your stone roofs")
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Enterprises
In 2007, Lille hosts around 21,000 industry or service sites.
Enterprises as per 31 December 2007
Culture
Etiquette and Protocol
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
iMinds
Investment Scene
References
| Number | Size category | Mean number of employees | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Lille | Lille | % Lille | None | 1 to 19 | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500+ | Lille | Greater | |
| Industries | 3 774 | 819 | 22% | 404 | 361 | 40 | 12 | 2 | 17 | 22 |
| Construction | 4 030 | 758 | 19% | 364 | 360 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| Commerce | 13 578 | 4 265 | 31% | 2 243 | 1 926 | 83 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| Transports | 1 649 | 407 | 25% | 196 | 182 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 26 |
| Finance | 2 144 | 692 | 32% | 282 | 340 | 51 | 17 | 2 | 21 | 18 |
| Real property | 5 123 | 1 771 | 35% | 1 159 | 587 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| Business services | 12 519 | 4 087 | 33% | 2 656 | 1 249 | 149 | 27 | 6 | 15 | 17 |
| Services to consummers | 8 916 | 3 075 | 34% | 1 636 | 1 347 | 86 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Education and health | 11 311 | 3 217 | 28% | 2 184 | 765 | 195 | 58 | 15 | 43 | 31 |
| Administration | 4 404 | 1 770 | 40% | 1 187 | 456 | 80 | 34 | 13 | 59 | 48 |
| Total | 67 468 | 20 861 | 31% | 12 311 | 7 573 | 762 | 176 | 39 | 18 | 17 |
