Bouchain

Bouchain
Coat of arms
Bouchain
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Bouchain
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Bouchain
Intercommunality	Porte du Hainaut
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques-Pierre Boltz
Area1	12.39 km2 (4.78 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	4,085
• Density	330/km2 (850/sq mi)
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	4,283	−0.8%
2006	4,187	−2.2%
2009	4,085	−2.4%

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