Faches-Thumesnil

Faches-Thumesnil
Faches-Thumesnil
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Faches-Thumesnil
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Lille-Sud-Est
Intercommunality	Lille Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Nicolas Lebas
Area1	4.62 km2 (1.78 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	15,902
• Density	3,400/km2 (8,900/sq mi)
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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Faches-Thumesnil is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is a suburb south of Lille and forms part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole.

Heraldry

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.)

Faches Thumesnil is twinned with the market town of St.Neots in Cambridgeshire, England, and with the town of Naousa, Greece.

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file