Marcoing
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | North | |
Arrondissement | Cambrai | |
Canton | Le Cateau-Cambrésis | |
Community association | Cambrai | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 7 ′ N , 3 ° 10 ′ E | |
height | 51-127 m | |
surface | 15.11 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,888 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 125 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 59159 | |
INSEE code | 59377 | |
Website | http://www.marcoing.fr/ | |
Mairie (Town Hall) |
Marcoing is a French commune with 1,888 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Cambrai and has been the capital of the canton of Marcoing since 2015 , before it belonged to the canton of Le Cateau-Cambrésis .
geography
The municipality Marcoing is located on a bend of the Scheldt and on to her parallel navigation canal Canal de Saint-Quentin , about seven kilometers southwest of the center of Cambrai .
Neighboring municipalities of Marcoing are Noyelles-sur-Escaut in the north, Proville and Rumilly-en-Cambrésis in the northeast, Masnières in the east, Villers-Plouich in the south, Ribécourt-la-Tour in the southwest and Flesquières in the west.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
Residents | 2.128 | 1,839 | 2.015 | 2.132 | 2,104 | 1.929 | 1,864 | 1,875 |
Personalities
- Gustave Dron (1846–1930) physician and politician
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1162-1165.