Wormhout

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Coordinates: 50°52′00″N 2°28′07″E / 50.8833333333, 2.46861111111

Commune of Wormhout
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkirk
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de l'Yser
Mayor	René Kerckhove (2008-2014)
Statistics
Elevation	5 m–33 m (avg. 19 m)
Land area¹	27,41 km²
Population² (1999)	4984
- Density	181/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	59663/ 59470
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Wormhout or Dutch: Wormhoudt is a town in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk in the Nord département, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région of France. It is twinned with Welsh town Llandudno. The city's name is of Saxon, or Frankish origin.

Neighbouring towns and villages :

• Ledringhem
• Esquelbecq

[edit] See also

• Wormhoudt massacre

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