Bambecque

Bambecque Bambeke
Commune
The church in Bambecque
Coat of arms
Location of Bambecque
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Coordinates: 50°54′05″N 2°32′55″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Hauts de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Grégoire Francke[1]
Area ^1	11.81 km^2 (4.56 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	832
• Density	70/km^2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59046 /59470
Elevation	2–24 m (6.6–78.7 ft) (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bambecque (French pronunciation: [bɑ̃bɛk]; Dutch: Bambeke) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]

Etymology

Bambecque has historically been attested as Banbeca in 1164. The toponym Bambecque is of Germanic origin, deriving from a Low German dialect, ultimately from Proto-West-Germanic *ban. Within the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, the Germanic hydronym *-bak(i) entered the French language via Low German, and took on two forms: the Germanic form -beek and Romance -becque (also -bec, -becques).[4]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	642	—
1975	614	−0.64%
1982	614	+0.00%
1990	589	−0.52%
1999	655	+1.19%
2009	719	+0.94%
2014	747	+0.77%
2020	822	+1.61%
Source: INSEE[5]

Heraldry

Arms of Bambecque

The arms of Bambecque are blazoned : Argent, a lion sable, armed and langued gules. (The arms of Bambecque, Crochte, Killem and Maing are essentially the same)

Points of interest

• Jardin botanique du Val d'Yser

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Caljouw, William Robert (1981). Germanic elements in French Toponymy (Thesis). University of British Columbia. pp. 148, 151. doi:10.14288/1.0094985. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE