Auxi-le-Château

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Coordinates: 50°13′53″N 2°06′56″E / 50.2313888889, 2.11555555556

Administration
Commune of Auxi-le-Château
Location

Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Auxi-le-Château
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de l'Auxillois
Mayor	Henri Dejonghe (2008-2014)
Statistics
Elevation	25 m–138 m (avg. 34 m)
Land area^¹	27,08 km²
Population^² (1999)	3065
- Density	113/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	62060/ 62390
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Auxi-le-Château is a commune and the chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 Places of interest
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes

[edit] Geography

A farming town located 28 miles (45km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D938, D933 and D941 roads. The Authie river flows through the town, which once divided the commune into two parts, one in the Pas-de-Calais and the other in the Somme department. It is so named because it was a border fort, but there is now no sign of a castle, apart from some ruins at the top of the Chemin de la Belle Inutile.