Faches-Thumesnil

Faches-Thumesnil
Commune
The town hall in Faches-Thumesnil
Coat of arms
Location of Faches-Thumesnil
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Coordinates: 50°35′58″N 3°04′28″E / 50.5994°N 3.0744°E / 50.5994; 3.0744
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Faches-Thumesnil
Intercommunality	Métropole Européenne de Lille
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrick Proisy[1]
Area 1	4.62 km2 (1.78 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	18,110
• Density	3,900/km2 (10,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59220 /59155
Elevation	30–58 m (98–190 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Faches-Thumesnil (French pronunciation: [faʃ tymenil]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3]

It is a suburb south of Lille and forms part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.

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The arms of Faches-Thumesnil are blazoned : Quarterly 1&4: Sable, 6 bezants, overall a lion Or, armed and langued gules (derived from Faches); 2&3 Azure, an inescutcheon argent and in chief 3 mullets of 5 Or(Thumesnil). (Faches' original arms were bezanty, not 6 bezants. # reduced in the quartering.)

Faches Thumesnil is twinned with the market town of St.Neots in Cambridgeshire, England, and with the town of Naousa, Greece.

• Communes of the Nord department

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