Faches-Thumesnil

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

(2020–2026) Patrick Proisy^[1]Area4.62 km² (1.78 sq mi)Population18,110 • Density3,900/km² (10,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation30–58 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.

Faches-Thumesnil (French pronunciation: [faʃ tymenil]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3]

It is a suburb south of Lille and forms part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	16,801	—
1975	18,645	+1.50%
1982	16,931	−1.37%
1990	15,774	−0.88%
1999	15,902	+0.09%
2007	16,680	+0.60%
2012	17,476	+0.94%
2017	17,835	+0.41%
Source: INSEE[4]

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