Bollezeele

Bollezeele
Coat of arms
Bollezeele
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Bollezeele
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkirk
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Yser
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marie-Joseph Dubreucq
Area1	17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	1,391
• Density	79/km2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59089 / 59470
Elevation	2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft) (avg. 44 m or 144 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.

Bollezeele (from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,258	—
1800	1,383	+9.9%
1806	1,539	+11.3%
1821	1,588	+3.2%
1831	1,662	+4.7%
1836	1,708	+2.8%
1841	1,740	+1.9%
1846	1,800	+3.4%
1851	1,769	−1.7%
1856	1,732	−2.1%
1861	1,718	−0.8%
1866	1,776	+3.4%
1872	1,811	+2.0%
1876	1,815	+0.2%
1881	1,798	−0.9%
1886	1,805	+0.4%
1891	1,700	−5.8%
1896	1,649	−3.0%
1901	1,620	−1.8%
1906	1,591	−1.8%
1911	1,585	−0.4%
1921	1,550	−2.2%
1926	1,560	+0.6%
1931	1,543	−1.1%
1936	1,562	+1.2%
1946	1,506	−3.6%
1954	1,463	−2.9%
1962	1,439	−1.6%
1968	1,389	−3.5%
1975	1,328	−4.4%
1982	1,500	+13.0%
1990	1,476	−1.6%
1999	1,383	−6.3%
2006	1,382	−0.1%
2009	1,391	+0.7%

Heraldry

The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned : Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file