Country France Department Pas-de-Calais Seat Guînes Commune 16 | Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais Arrondissement Calais Communes 16 | |
The canton of Guînes is a former canton situated in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
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Geography
The canton is organised around Guines in the arrondissement of Calais. The altitude varies from 0m (Guines) to 199m (Herbinghen) for an average altitude of 59m.
Composition
The canton comprised sixteen communes and a total of 14,577 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
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Canton of Guînes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA