Faches-Thumesnil
Faches-Thumesnil | |
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 The town hall in Faches-Thumesnil | |
.svg.png) Coat of arms | |
Location of Faches-Thumesnil | |
  Faches-Thumesnil  Faches-Thumesnil | |
| Coordinates: 50°35′58″N 3°04′28″E / 50.5994°N 3.0744°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Lille |
| Canton | Faches-Thumesnil |
| Intercommunality | Métropole Européenne de Lille |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Patrick Proisy[1] |
Area 1 | 4.62 km2 (1.78 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 18,310 |
| • Density | 4,000/km2 (10,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59220 /59155 |
| Elevation | 30–58 m (98–190 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Faches-Thumesnil (French pronunciation: [faʃ tymenil]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]
It is a suburb south of Lille and forms part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 16,801 | — |
| 1975 | 18,645 | +1.50% |
| 1982 | 16,931 | −1.37% |
| 1990 | 15,774 | −0.88% |
| 1999 | 15,902 | +0.09% |
| 2007 | 16,680 | +0.60% |
| 2012 | 17,476 | +0.94% |
| 2017 | 17,835 | +0.41% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
Heraldry
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The arms of Faches-Thumesnil are blazoned : Quarterly 1&4: Sable, 6 bezants, overall a lion Or, armed and langued gules (derived from Faches); 2&3 Azure, an inescutcheon argent and in chief 3 mullets of 5 Or(Thumesnil). (Faches' original arms were bezanty, not 6 bezants. # reduced in the quartering.)
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Faches Thumesnil is twinned with the market town of St.Neots in Cambridgeshire, England, and with the town of Naousa, Greece.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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