North
Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Bousignies-sur-Roc

Bousignies-sur-Roc

Bousignies-sur-Roc is a commune in the department in northern . In early 2021, the commune made international headlines after some historians on a walk noticed that a stone marking the French-Belgian border near the village was moved by about two meters into the French territory.
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  • Type: Village with 376 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Boeschepe” and “Bousignies”
  • Postal code: 59149

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Sainte-Aldegonde de Bousignies-sur-Roc and St Martin’s Church, Cousolre.

Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Martin Church of Cousolre or St Martin's Church of Cousolre is a church located in , in the department of , in the region of . is situated 3 km southwest of Bousignies-sur-Roc.

Church
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a church, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Bousignies-sur-Roc.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hantes-Wihéries and Beaumont.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Bousignies-sur-Roc.

Town
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is a city and municipality of located in the province of Hainaut, on the border with . On 1 January 2012 had a total population of 7,060. is situated 5 km southeast of Bousignies-sur-Roc.

Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
is a village of and a district in the municipality of , located in the , . is situated 8 km north of Bousignies-sur-Roc.

Bousignies-sur-Roc

Latitude
50.26396° or 50° 15′ 50″ north
Longitude
4.1819° or 4° 10′ 55″ east
Population
376
Elevation
154 metres (505 feet)
Open location code
9F26757J+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316070800
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3030843
Wiki­data ID
Q1073853
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bousignies-sur-Roc” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Aragonese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Arpitan: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Asturian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Bambara: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Basque: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Bavarian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Breton: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Cajun French: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Catalan: “Boeschepe”
  • Catalan: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Cebuano: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Chechen: “Бузини-суьгӀ-ГӀок”
  • Chinese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Chinese: “布西尼叙罗克”
  • Chinese: “布西尼敘羅克”
  • Chinese: “罗克河畔布西尼”
  • Corsican: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Croatian: “Boeschepe”
  • Croatian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Czech: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Danish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Dutch: “Boeschepe”
  • Dutch: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Esperanto: “Boeschepe”
  • Esperanto: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Estonian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Faroese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Finnish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • French: “Boeschepe”
  • French: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Friulian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Galician: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • German: “Boeschepe”
  • German: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Greek: “Μπουζινί-συρ-Ροκ”
  • Hungarian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Icelandic: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Ido: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Indonesian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Interlingua: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Interlingue: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Irish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Italian: “Boeschepe”
  • Italian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Kabyle: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Kazakh: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Kazakh: “Bwzïnï-syur-Rok”
  • Kazakh: “Бузини-сюр-Рок”
  • Kazakh: “بۋزىينىي-سيۋر-روك”
  • Kongo: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Kurdish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Ladin: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Latin: “Boeschepe”
  • Latin: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Latvian: “Boeschepe”
  • Latvian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Ligurian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Limburgan: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Lithuanian: “Boeschepe”
  • Lithuanian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Low German: “Boeschepe”
  • Low German: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Malagasy: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Malay: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Minangkabau: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Narom: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Neapolitan: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Papiamento: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Picard: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Piemontese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Polish: “Boeschepe”
  • Polish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Portuguese: “Boeschepe”
  • Portuguese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Prussian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Romagnol: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Romanian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Romansh: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Sardinian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Scots: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Serbian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Serbian: “Buzinji sir Rok”
  • Serbian: “Бузињи сир Рок”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Sicilian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Slovak: “Boeschepe”
  • Slovak: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Spanish: “Boeschepe”
  • Spanish: “Bousignies sur Roc”
  • Spanish: “Bousignies sur-Roc”
  • Spanish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Swahili: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Swedish: “Boeschepe”
  • Swedish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Swiss German: “Boeschepe”
  • Swiss German: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Turkish: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Ukrainian: “Бузіні-сюр-Рок”
  • Venetian: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Vietnamese: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Vlaams: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Volapük: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Walloon: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Welsh: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Wolof: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • Zulu: “Bousignies-sur-Roc”
  • “Bousignies-sur-Roc”

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