Guemps

Guemps
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Canton	Marck
Community association	Région d'Audruicq
Coordinates	50 ° 55 ′  N , 2 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′  N , 2 ° 0 ′  E
height	1-5 m
surface	15.89 km 2
Residents	1,092 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	69 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	62370
INSEE code	62393
Website	http://www.guemps.fr/
Town hall (Mairie) of Guemps

Guemps ( Dutch : Ganep ) is a French municipality with 1092 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France . It has belonged to the Arrondissement of Calais (previously Saint-Omer ) and the Canton of Marck (until 2015: Canton Audruicq ) since 2017 . The inhabitants are called Guempois .

geography

Guemps is about ten kilometers east-southeast of Calais and about 29 kilometers west-southwest of Dunkirk . Guemps is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Marck in the north and north-west, Offekerque in the east and north-east, Nortkerque in the south and south-east, Ardres in the south-west and Les Attaques in the west and south-west.

The A16 autoroute runs through the municipality .

Demographics

Population development
year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
Residents	855	797	768	808	858	882	944	1,060
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Saint-Jean-Baptiste church from 1892
• Windmills

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  Saint-Jean-Baptiste church

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  Windmills

Personalities

• Marie Duhem (1871–1918), painter

Web links

Commons : Guemps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969