Noyelles-sur-Mer

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Noyelles-sur-Mer
Noyelles-sur-Mer
Location within Picardy region Noyelles-sur-Mer
Coordinates: 50°11′04″N 1°42′35″E / 50.1844°N 1.7097°E / 50.1844; 1.7097Coordinates: 50°11′04″N 1°42′35″E / 50.1844°N 1.7097°E / 50.1844; 1.7097
Country	France
Region	Picardy
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Abbeville
Canton	Nouvion
Intercommunality	Canton of Nouvion-en-Ponthieu
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Michel Letocart
Area
• Land¹	20.01 km² (7.73 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Population²	860
• Population² Density	43/km² (110/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	80600 / 80860
Elevation	0–42 m (0–138 ft) (avg. 7 m or 23 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.

Noyelles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.

Geography

Noyelles-sur-Mer is situated on the coast, facing the English Channel, on the D11 and D40 junction, some 13 kilometres (8 mi) northwest of Abbeville.

Noyelles has a station on the Boulogne - Amiens line. There is also a heritage railway at Noyelles, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer system. A dual gauge line goes to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and a metre gauge line continues on to Cayeux. Another metre gauge line goes to Le Crotoy. A further metre gauge line, now closed, went to Forest-l'Abbaye, where it connected with the line between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie.

Population history
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
894	939	908	813	802	742	860
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

The preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
The Chinese cemetery, in the village of Nolette, where 838 Chinese workers are buried. Recruited by the British as part of the Chinese Labour Corps between 1917 and 1919 during and after the First World War, for the most part, they died of Spanish flu.

One of the gravestones at Noyelles-sur-Mer

The entrance to the Chinese cemetery at Noyelles-sur-Mer

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Communes of the Somme department

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