Nieppe Niepkerke | |
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 The town hall in Nieppe | |
_Nord-France.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Nieppe | |
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| Coordinates:50°42′14″N2°50′23″E / 50.7039°N 2.8397°E /50.7039; 2.8397 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Dunkerque |
| Canton | Bailleul |
| Intercommunality | CA Cœur de Flandre |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2023–2026) | Marie Sandra[1] |
Area 1 | 17.3 km2 (6.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 7,685 |
| • Density | 444/km2 (1,150/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Nieppois(es) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59431 /59850 |
| Elevation | 12–21 m (39–69 ft) (avg. 16 m or 52 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Nieppe (French pronunciation:[njɛp];Dutch:Niepkerke) is acommune in theNorddepartment in northernFrance.[3] It is in theLys Plain and a portion of it is in theLys Valley (Leiedal in Dutch).
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 5,341 | — |
| 1975 | 6,903 | +3.73% |
| 1982 | 7,238 | +0.68% |
| 1990 | 7,417 | +0.31% |
| 1999 | 7,470 | +0.08% |
| 2007 | 7,568 | +0.16% |
| 2012 | 7,412 | −0.42% |
| 2017 | 7,476 | +0.17% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
It is situated by theBelgian border. It is located close toArmentières, 42 km southeast ofDunkerque (Dunkirk) and is connected by theA25 (15 km) toLille. It borders the Belgian municipalitiesHeuvelland andComines-Warneton.
Nieppe has a railway station served byTER trains fromCalais-Ville station and Dunkerque toLille-Flandres station. Its nearest airports are inMerville (18 km) andLesquin (24 km)
In its point of its economic view, Nieppe suffered numerous invasions and wars which devastated the area, especially the profit of strategic position of the heart of the agricultural area and more European productives, its strategic axisLille-Dunkirk via Bailleul and Cassel, the axis, the today's A25.
| The arms of Nieppe areblazoned : Quarterly 1&4: Sable, 6 bezants 3,2,1(Or); 2&3: Argent, a chevron between 3 roses gules. |
Nieppe features its own football (soccer) club FC Nieppe and its handball club (team). Nieppe also has a library named afterMaurice Schumann, its painting and music school and K'Dane (a Nieppe (Nieppoise) dance school). Miss Cantine was created during theSecond World War and was recreated and named on 31 March 2007. It features several funny faces on the solidarity of several Nieppois residents. Opened by Jules Houcke, mayor of Nieppe created and alimented a scholar cantine, opened equally for old people of the commune.
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