Faches-Thumesnil

Faches-Thumesnil
Faches-Thumesnil
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Faches-Thumesnil
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Lille-Sud-Est
Intercommunality	Lille Métropole
Mayor	Nicolas Lebas (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	30–58 m (98–190 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft)
Land area1	4.62 km2 (1.78 sq mi)
Population2	15,902  (1999)
- Density	3,442 /km2 (8,910 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59220/ 59155
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