Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (French pronunciation: [lə tukɛ paʁi plaʒ]; Picard: Ech Toutchet-Paris-Plache; West Flemish: 't Oekske, older Dutch: Het Hoekske), commonly referred to as Le Touquet (), is a commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department, northern France. It has a population of 4,244 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.

Located on the Opal Coast, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the shoreline of the English Channel, the seaside resort has been nicknamed the "Garden of the English Channel" (French: Jardin de la Manche), the "Pearl of the Opal Coast" (French: Perle de la Côte d'Opale), the "Sports Paradise" (French: Paradis des sports) or the "Four Seasons Resort" (French: Station des quatre saisons). Although nowadays dominated by buildings from the 1950s to the 1980s, a number of unique villas have still been preserved that evoke the seaside architecture of the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. Le Touquet possesses an important architectural heritage of Anglo-Norman style and twenty-one buildings protected as historical monuments which make it the most awarded French bathing resort.

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