Valenciennes
Data as of · Metro Power Rankings
France • Europe • Language power • Time zone Europe/Paris UTC+1 (CET) (observes summer time)
- Population
- 350K
- GDP
- N/A
- GDP per capita
- $0
- Land area
- 630 km² (243 mi²)
- Density
- 556/km² (1,440/mi²)
Valenciennes metro area
50.36, 3.52Loading map…
Sport
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Total Teams↗1#T-873
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Universities↗1#T-308
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World #1Top 5Outside top 5
Most similar metros
Closest profiles across all 16 dimensionsSports
1 teams
Other Teams
Football/Soccer Teams1 team
Against expectation how Valenciennes’s teams have done against the odds they went in with.
- French top-flight clubs based here have fallen short of their pre-match odds by 18.7 match points across 1,214 club-matches since 1934, across 2 clubs.
Championship History
1 titles
Every major championship won by a team while it represented Valenciennes, across all sports, newest first. 1 in total. Each links to the team and the competition's full honour roll.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | Denain Voltaire | French Championship · 1920–1987 |
Languages of Valenciennes
French first in Hauts-de-France; 1 languages hold a role.
- English reach, Hauts-de-France
- 39%
- Tier 3 country
Art of Valenciennes
#175 for celebrated art · 3 canon works in its museums
Leading museums: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
4 notable artists born here, most in the 1800s: Henri Matisse, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Education & Research
Top 2000 Universities1 entry
#1798
Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France
Valenciennes, France