Tourcoing is a city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the departement of Nord within the Hautes de France Region.

Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 94,000 inhabitants.

Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-one other communes, Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by around 1.1 million people: the European Metropolis of Lille.

To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.

Main sights

• Church of St Christopher (15th-16th centuries), considered one of the most beautiful Neo-Gothic edifices of Nord. In stone and brickwork, it has an 80-metre (262-foot) high bell tower with more than 80 bells.
• Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the seventeenth century.
• Hôtel de ville (1885), in Napoleon III-style.
• Jardin botanique de Tourcoing, a botanical garden and arboretum.

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