Guemps

Guemps
Coat of arms
Guemps
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Guemps
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Audruicq
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq
Government
• Mayor	Michel Cousin
Area1	15.89 km2 (6.14 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	882
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62393 / 62370
Elevation	1–5 m (3.3–16.4 ft) (avg. 3 m or 9.8 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.

Guemps is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Calais, at the D229 and D32 crossroads. ==Population==

Historical population of Guemps

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2010
Population	739	797	768	808	858	882	967
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St.John the Baptist, dating from the fifteenth century.
• The windmills, used to pump water from the marshland.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Guemps on the Insee website (French)
• Guemps on the Quid website (French)