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Carvin

Field	Value
name	Carvin
commune status	Commune
image	Carvin - Town hall - 1.jpg
caption	The town hall of Carvin
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Carvin 62.svg
arrondissement	Lens
canton	Carvin
INSEE	62215
postal code	62220
mayor	Philippe Kemel
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	Hénin-Carvin
coordinates
elevation m	28
elevation min m	17
elevation max m	42
area km2	21.03
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Carvin 62.svg

Carvin () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 14 mi northeast of Lens.

History

During World War I, from October 1914 to October 1918, Carvin was occupied by the Germans. Over 6,000 soldiers are buried in one of the largest German cemeteries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

Carvin was awarded the Croix de Guerre on 28 September 1920.

In May 1940, during the German invasion of France, a battle in Carvin's town centre allowed the bulk of British and French troops to escape to the Dunkirk evacuation. Once the allies had gone, the troops of the Wehrmacht arrested and murdered many miners at Arras.

In 1947, Carvin lost nearly a third of its territory with the separation of the commune of Libercourt.

Population

| graph-pos = bottom |1793 |3760 |1800 |3670 |1806 |4522 |1821 |4686 |1831 |4995 |1836 |4953 |1841 |5053 |1846 |5120 |1851 |5022 |1856 |5426 |1861 |6094 |1866 |6546 |1872 |7024 |1876 |7471 |1881 |7759 |1886 |7808 |1891 |8000 |1896 |8614 |1901 |9391 |1906 |10736 |1911 |11846 |1921 |11775 |1926 |16664 |1931 |19543 |1936 |18696 |1946 |20294 |1954 |15780 |1962 |16139 |1968 |17097 |1975 |15601 |1982 |16206 |1990 |17059 |1999 |17772 |2007 |17485 |2012 |17198 |2017 |17124

Twin towns

Carvin is twinned with:

POL Kłodzko, Poland
ITA Carvico, Italy

References

(2 December 2020). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires".
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/62215-carvin INSEE commune file]
{{Cassini-Ehess. 7008. Carvin
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-62215#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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