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Subprefecture and commune in Hauts de France, France

Boulogne is close to the A16 motorway (Paris Amiens Calais Dunkerque). Metropolitan bus services are operated by "Marinéo". The company Flixbus proposed establishing a bus line connecting Paris to Boulogne. There are coach services to Calais and Dunkerque. The city has several railway stations, of which the most important is Boulogne Ville station, located in the south of the city. Boulogne Tintelleries station is used by regional trains. It is located near the university and the city centre. The former Boulogne Maritime and Boulogne Aéroglisseurs stations served as a boat connection (to England) for the railway. Boulogne has no cross channel ferry services since the closure of the route to Dover by LD Lines in 2010. The regional trains are TER Hauts de France run by SNCF. The principal service runs from Gare de Boulogne Ville via Gare de Calais Fréthun, Gare de Calais Ville to Gare de Lille Flandres.

Boulogne's 12th century belfry is one of 56 listed Belfries of Belgium and France, all in northeastern France and Belgium, with shared World Heritage Site status because of their architecture and testimony to the rise of municipal power in the region. It is the oldest building in the upper city of Boulogne, and currently serves as the home to a museum of Celtic remains from the Roman occupation. Founded as the Count's dungeon, the top floor was added in the 13th century. Damage by a fire in 1712 was built over by 1734.

Boulogne sur Mer hosts one of the oldest Universités de l'été – summer courses in French language and culture. It is known as the Université d'été de Boulogne sur Mer. The Saint Louis building of the University of the Côte d'Opale's Boulogne campus opened its doors in 1991, on the site of the former St. Louis Hospital, the front entrance to which remains a predominant architectural feature. Its 6 major specialisms are Modern Languages, French Literature, Sport, Law, History and Economics. The university is situated in the town centre, about 5 minutes from the Boulogne Tintelleries railway station.

Campus University of the Littoral Opal Coast (Saint Louis, Grand Rue and Capérure site), member of Université Lille Nord de France.

High schools : Lycée Auguste Mariette, Edouard Branly, Cazin (professional). College : College Langevin, Angelier, Daunou.

Two health centres are located in Boulogne, the public Hospital Duchenne and the private Clinique de la côte d'opale.

Boulogne's football club, US Boulogne Côte d'Opale (US refers to Union Sportive), is one of the oldest in France due to the city's proximity to England, founded in 1898. The club currently play in the third tier, the Championnat National, and host home matches at the 14,500 capacity Stade de la Libération. Boulogne native and FIFA World Cup finalist Franck Ribéry began his career at the club. Basketball teams in Boulogne include Stade Olympique Maritime Boulonnais and ESSM Le Portel of Pro A (first tier men's professional basketball league in France).

The Château de Boulogne sur Mer (now a castle museum) of Boulogne, in the fortified town, houses the most important exhibition of masks from Alaska in the world, the second largest collection of Greek ceramics in France (after the Louvre), collections of Roman and medieval sculptures, paintings (15th–20th century), an Egyptian collection, African Arts etc. As these collections are exhibited in a medieval castle, one can also discover the Roman walls (in the underground) as well as rooms built in the 13th century (La Barbière, banqueting hall, chapel, covered parapet walk )

La Casa San Martin is currently a museum where José de San Martín the leader of independence struggle in Argentina (also Chile and Peru) died in 1850, from 1930 to 1967 this house was the consulate of Argentina in France. There is a statue dedicated to his colleague Simón Bolívar, other liberator of South America in the revolutions against Spanish colonial rule in the 1810s. Bolivar planned to head in exile to this very part of France before his death in 1830. Historic emigration in the 19th century from the Nord Pas de Calais region to Argentina and Chile can explain some cultural ties with South America of the Boulognais and Latino/Ibero American culture. Nausicaä, the French national sealife centre.

Guynemer (fl. 1090s), pirate. Matilda of Boulogne (1105–1152), Countess of Boulogne and queen consort of England; the wife of Stephen, King of England (reigned 1135–1154). Michel Le Quien (1661–1733), monk and historian. Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761–1840), politician and historian. Frédéric Sauvage (1786–1857), engineer and a pioneer of the propeller. Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve (1804–1869), literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. Guillaume Duchenne (1806–1875), neurologist. Auguste Delacroix (1809 1868), painter. Auguste Mariette (1821–1881), scholar and archaeologist, one of the foremost Egyptologists of his generation, and the founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885), composer and pianist. Auguste O'Kelly (1829–1900), music publisher. Charles Frédéric O'Kelly (1830–1897), managing director of Blanzy Poure. George O'Kelly (1831–1914), pianist and composer. Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911), organist/composer. Étienne Prosper Berne Bellecour (1838–1910), painter. Benoît Constant Coquelin (1841–1909), actor. Ernest Hamy (1842–1908), anthropologist/ethnologist; created (in 1880) the museum of ethnography of Trocadéro (today known as the Musée de l'Homme, Trocadéro). Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (1848–1909), actor. Olivier Latry (1962), Titular Organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and professor at the Paris Conservatory. Henri Malo (1868–1948), writer and historian. Léo Marjane (1912–2016), singer. Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), famous painter, initiator of "lyrical abstraction" and informal art. Michel Caffier (born 1930), writer and literary critic. Sophie Daumier (1934–2004), film actress. Estha Essombe (born 1963), judoka. Jean Pierre Papin (born 1963), footballer. David Ringot (born 1969), footballer. Mickaël Bourgain (born 1980), track cyclist. Franck Ribéry (born 1983), footballer. Terence Makengo (born 1992), footballer.