Caëstre

Caëstre
Caëstre
	Commune
	Caëstre, church in the street
	Location of Caëstre
	Caëstre Caëstre
	Coordinates: 50°45′32″N 2°36′18″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Bailleul
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Flandre Intérieure
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Brigitte Vanhersel
Area 1	10.2 km2 (3.9 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	1,980
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Caestrois (es)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59120 /59190
Elevation	24–62 m (79–203 ft) ; (avg. 38 m or 125 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Caëstre (French Flemish: Kaester and Dutch: Kaaster) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Politics

	Winning Candidate	Party	%
2017	Emmanuel Macron	En Marche!	57.93
2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	57.66
2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	60.78
2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	79.73

Arms of Caëstre	The arms of Caëstre are blazoned : Or, a bordure azure, and on an inescutcheon argent, a lion gules armed, langued and crowned Or, within a bordure azure. (Caëstre and Berthen use the same arms.)

gollark: Also possibly partly confirmation bias or something?

gollark: If not for the internet, I probably would never have heard of anarchomonarchism, anarchoprimitivism, posadism, sort of thing.

gollark: I suspect it is just easier to see weird political ideologies because internet.

gollark: > implying every supporter of Bernie Sanders agrees with them

gollark: Since humans came from Africa somewhere and spread everywhere else, in a sense... we are all colonizers.

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