Carency is a village of northern France, in the départment of Pas-de-Calais. It belongs to the agglomeration of Lens-Liévin which gathers 36 communes, and has a population of 250 000 inhabitants. Before the agglomeration, it used to be in the arondissement of ?.

Population (1999): 668.

Postal code: 62144.

History

François Faber, winner of the 1909 Tour de France, died there in combat on May 9, 1915, during World War I.

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