Saint-Josse

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Saint-Josse
Coat of arms of Saint-Josse
Saint-Josse (France)
Saint-Josse
region Hauts-de-France
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Montreuil
Canton Étaples
Community association Deux Baies en Montreuillois
Coordinates 50 ° 28 ′  N , 1 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′  N , 1 ° 40 ′  E
height 2-64 m
surface 21.1 km 2
Residents 1,136 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 54 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 62170
INSEE code
Website www.saint-josse-sur-mer.fr

Town hall ( Mairie ) of Saint-Josse

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Saint-Josse (also: Saint-Josse-sur-Mer , Flemish : Sint-Joost ) is a French municipality with 1,136 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France (before 2016: Nord-Pas-de-Calais ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Montreuil and the canton of Étaples (until 2015: canton of Montreuil ). The inhabitants are called Judociens .

geography

Saint-Josse is close to the opal coast of the English Channel . The Canche limits the municipality to the north. Saint-Josse is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Étaples in the north, Tubersent and Bréxent-Énocq in the northeast, La Calotterie in the east, Sorrus in the southeast, Saint-Aubin in the south, Merlimont in the southwest and Cucq in the west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
Residents 622 559 575 671 914 1,052 1,170 1,160
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Saint-Pierre church
  • Saint-Pierre church

Personalities

  • Jodok (French: Josse , died around 669), prince and hermit, saint of the Catholic Church

Web links

Commons : Saint-Josse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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