Hauts-de-France
North
Arrondissement of Lille

Hem

Hem is a commune in the department in northern . It is located near the city of .
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  • Type: Town with 18,700 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “59299”, “Ham”, and “Hem, Nord”

Places of Interest

Highlights include EDHEC Business School and Villa Cavrois.

College
Photo: 神风, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord, commonly known as or simply EDHEC, is a French business school and grande école founded in 1906.

Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in is a large modernist mansion built in 1932 by French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from active in the textile industry.

Stadium
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The is a velodrome in , , France. It was opened in 1936 and has hosted the finish of the one-day "monument classic" cycling race Paris–Roubaix since 1943, and the Paris–Roubaix Femmes since its inception in 2021.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roubaix and Villeneuve-d’Ascq.

Town
Photo: Mairie de roubaix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in northern France, located in the metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns. is situated 4 km north of Hem.

Town
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a commune in the department in northern . With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Lille metropolitan area and the largest in area after the city of itself. is situated 5 km southwest of Hem.

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern France. It is located northeast of the city of about 7 km from the centre. The headquarters of Auchan, a hypermarket chain, are located in . is situated 3½ km northwest of Hem.

Hem

Latitude
50.6541° or 50° 39′ 15″ north
Longitude
3.1839° or 3° 11′ 2″ east
Population
18,700
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9F25M53M+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691716
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6454411
Wiki­data ID
Q1047719
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hem” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hem”
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  • Asturian: “Hem”
  • Bambara: “Hem”
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  • Bavarian: “Hem”
  • Belarusian: “Ам (Нор)”
  • Belarusian: “Ам”
  • Breton: “Hem”
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  • Catalan: “Hem”
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  • Chechen: “Ам”
  • Chinese: “Hem”
  • Chinese: “埃姆”
  • Corsican: “Hem”
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  • Czech: “Hem”
  • Danish: “Hem”
  • Dutch: “Hem (Frankrijk)”
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  • German: “Hem”
  • Greek: “Εμ”
  • Hungarian: “Hem”
  • Icelandic: “Hem”
  • Ido: “Hem”
  • Indonesian: “Hem, Nord”
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  • Interlingua: “Hem”
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  • Irish: “Hem”
  • Italian: “Hem”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Hem”
  • Kabyle: “Hem”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hem”
  • Kazakh: “Am”
  • Kazakh: “Hem”
  • Kazakh: “Ам”
  • Kazakh: “ام”
  • Kongo: “Hem”
  • Kurdish: “Hem, Nord”
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  • Ladin: “Hem”
  • Latin: “Hem”
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  • Mainfränkisch: “Hem”
  • Malagasy: “Hem, Nord”
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  • Malay: “Hem, Nord”
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  • Manx: “Hem, Nord”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hem”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hem”
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  • Polish: “Hem”
  • Portuguese: “Hem”
  • Prussian: “Hem”
  • Romagnol: “Hem”
  • Romanian: “Hem, Nord”
  • Romanian: “Hem”
  • Romansh: “Hem”
  • Russian: “Ам”
  • Sardinian: “Hem”
  • Scots: “Hem”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hem”
  • Serbian: “Em”
  • Serbian: “Hem”
  • Serbian: “Ем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hem”
  • Sicilian: “Hem”
  • Slovak: “Hem”
  • Slovenian: “Hern”
  • Spanish: “Hem”
  • Swahili: “Hem”
  • Swedish: “Hem, Nord”
  • Swedish: “Hem”
  • Swiss German: “Hem”
  • Tatar: “Ам”
  • Turkish: “Hem, Nord”
  • Turkish: “Hem”
  • Ukrainian: “Ам”
  • Venetian: “Hem”
  • Vietnamese: “Hem, Nord”
  • Vietnamese: “Hem”
  • Vlaams: “Hem”
  • Volapük: “Hem”
  • Walloon: “Hem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hem, Nord”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hem”
  • Welsh: “Hem”
  • Wolof: “Hem”
  • Zulu: “Hem”
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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Police intercommunale and Mairie de Hem.

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