Bouchain
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Location within Hauts-de-France region
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| Coordinates: 50°17′04″N 3°19′04″E / 50.2844°N 3.3178°ECoordinates: 50°17′04″N 3°19′04″E / 50.2844°N 3.3178°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Nord | |
| Arrondissement | Valenciennes | |
| Canton | Bouchain | |
| Intercommunality | Porte du Hainaut | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Jacques-Pierre Boltz | |
| Area1 | 12.39 km2 (4.78 sq mi) | |
| Population (2009)2 | 4,085 | |
| • Density | 330/km2 (850/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59092 /59111 | |
| Elevation | 31–100 m (102–328 ft) (avg. 38 m or 125 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Bouchain is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It lies halfway between Cambrai and Valenciennes. Bouchain, seat of the early medieval County of Ostrevent, was taken by Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, in the 10th century and eventually subsumed into the County of Hainaut.
It is twinned with Halesworth and Eitorf
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