Bouchain

Bouchain
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Bouchain
Bouchain Bouchain
Coordinates: 50°17′04″N 3°19′04″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Denain
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Ludovic Zientek
Area 1	12.39 km2 (4.78 sq mi)
Population (2015)2	4,044
• Density	330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59092 /59111
Elevation	31–100 m (102–328 ft) (avg. 38 m or 125 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.

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.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	1,128	—
1806	1,102	−2.3%
1821	1,198	+8.7%
1831	1,183	−1.3%
1836	1,148	−3.0%
1841	1,401	+22.0%
1846	1,463	+4.4%
1851	1,577	+7.8%
1856	1,632	+3.5%
1861	1,501	−8.0%
1866	1,504	+0.2%
1872	1,607	+6.8%
1876	1,685	+4.9%
1881	1,763	+4.6%
1886	1,859	+5.4%
1891	1,405	−24.4%
1896	1,527	+8.7%
1901	1,760	+15.3%
1906	1,716	−2.5%
1911	2,214	+29.0%
1921	1,732	−21.8%
1926	2,076	+19.9%
1931	2,434	+17.2%
1936	2,402	−1.3%
1946	2,421	+0.8%
1954	2,812	+16.2%
1962	3,505	+24.6%
1968	3,916	+11.7%
1975	4,826	+23.2%
1982	4,543	−5.9%
1990	4,317	−5.0%
1999	4,282	−0.8%
2006	4,187	−2.2%
2007	4,174	−0.3%
2009	4,085	−2.1%
2012	3,995	−2.2%
2015	4,044	+1.2%

International relations

It is twinned with Halesworth and Eitorf

Heraldry

The arms of Bouchain are blazoned : Argent, a tower gules. (form of the tower varies)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file