Écuires

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Écuires

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Écuires
Coordinates: 50°26′50″N 1°45′43″E / 50.4472°N 1.7619°E / 50.4472; 1.7619Coordinates: 50°26′50″N 1°45′43″E / 50.4472°N 1.7619°E / 50.4472; 1.7619
Country France
Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Montreuil
Canton Montreuil
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Montreuillois
Government
  Mayor (20012008) Alain Noyelles
Area
  Land1 9.15 km2 (3.53 sq mi)
Population (1999)
  Population2 830
  Population2 Density 91/km2 (230/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 62289 / 62170
Elevation 5–65 m (16–213 ft)
(avg. 15 m or 49 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.

Écuires is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A village situated just outside Montreuil-sur-Mer on the N1 road.

Places of interest

  • The fifteenth-century church of St. Vaast
  • The sixteenth-century Château du Quiévremont

Population

Historical population of Écuires
Year196219681975198219901999
Population579586670795878830
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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