Marcoing

Marcoing
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	North
Arrondissement	Cambrai
Canton	Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Community association	Cambrai
Coordinates	50 ° 7 ′  N , 3 ° 10 ′  E 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.