- Plouvain
French commune
name= Plouvain
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Arras
canton= Vitry-en-Artois
insee=62660
cp=62118
maire=André Anjorand
mandat=2008 -2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes Osartis
longitude=2.92638888889
latitude=50.3069444444
alt moy=61 m
alt mini=42 m
alt maxi=71 m
hectares=241
km²=2,41
sans=460
date-sans=1999
dens=190|Plouvain is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming village situated Convert|5|mi|km|0 east of Arras, at the junction of the D42 and the D46 roads. The junction of the A1 and the
A26 autoroute s is less than one mile away.Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Anne, rebuilt along with the rest of the village, after
World War I .
* TheCommonwealth War Graves Commission burials.See also
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2027507&mode=1 The CWGC graves in the communal cemetery]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=27148&req=Plouvain Plouvain on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on June 30th 2008."
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