Billy-Montigny is a city of the northern France, in the département of Pas-de-Calais (zone 62). It belongs to agglomeration of Lens-Liévin (http://www.agglo-lenslievin.fr) which gathers 36 communes, is 250,000 inhabitants.
Population (1999): 8,449
The history of the area remains marked by mining catastrophes the known as one of Courrières which made 1099 dead on March 10, 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines.History