Ames, Pas-de-Calais

Ames
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Ames Location within Hauts-de-France region Ames
Coordinates: 50°32′33″N 2°24′58″E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Hauts-de-France
Depairtment	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Auchel
Intercommunality	Artois-Lys
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marcel Cocq
Area 1	3.5 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Population  (2009)2	605
• Density	170/km2 (450/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62028 /62190
Elevation	52–99 m (171–325 ft) (avg. 53 m or 174 ft)
1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance.

Ames is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais depairtment in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region o Fraunce.

Geografie

A fermin veelage situatit some 11 mile (17.7 km) wast o Béthune an 31 mile (49.9 km) soothwast o Lille, at the junction o the D69 an the D91 roads an bi the banks o the river Nave.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	610	—
1968	639	+4.8%
1975	611	−4.4%
1982	601	−1.6%
1990	555	−7.7%
1999	518	−6.7%
2009	605	+16.8%

Sichts

• The kirk o Saint-Pierre, datin frae the twalt hunderyear
• The war memorial

See an aw

• Communes o the Pas-de-Calais depairtment

References

• INSEE commune file

Freemit airtins

• Ames on the Quid wabsteid (in French)