Sallaumines (French pronunciation: [salomin]; Picard: Sallaumine or Sallau) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.

Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.

The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines.

On 18 June 1916 Max Immelmann, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	14,768	—
1975	12,971	−1.84%
1982	12,081	−1.01%
1990	11,036	−1.12%
1999	10,677	−0.37%
2007	10,466	−0.25%
2012	9,621	−1.67%
2017	9,715	+0.19%
Source: INSEE

Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast, Avion to the southwest, Lens to the west, Loison-sous-Lens to the north, Harnes to the northeast and Montigny-en-Gohelle to the east.

The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.

Sallaumines is twinned with:

• Lugau, Germany
• Torez, Ukraine
• Trbovlje, Slovenia
• Wodzisław Śląski, Poland

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

• Communauté d'Agglomération de Lens-Liévin (in French)