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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Audruicq
|native name            = Ouderwijk
|commune status         = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image                  = Audruicq (Pas-de-Calais) mairie.JPG
|caption                = The town hall of Audruicq
|image coat of arms     = Blason ville fr Audruicq (Pas-de-Calais).svg
|arrondissement         = Calais
|canton                 = Marck
|INSEE                  = 62057
|postal code            = 62370
|mayor                  = Olivier Planque<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=6 June 2023|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2022&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [[Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq|CC Région d'Audruicq]]
|coordinates            = {{coord|50.8797|2.0814|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 10
|elevation min m        = 3
|elevation max m        = 22
|area km2               = 14.44
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Audruicq''' ({{IPA|fr|odʁɥik|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Audruicq.wav}}; {{langx|vls|Ouderwijk}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Pas-de-Calais]] [[Departments of France|department]] in northern France.<ref>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/62057-audruicq INSEE commune file]</ref>

==Geography==
A town located 11 miles (18&nbsp;km) southeast of [[Calais]], at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.

==History==
[[Baldwin II, Count of Flanders]] named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil.
After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the [[Peace of Nijmegen]] in 1678.

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-62057#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |3606
|1975 |3616
|1982 |4078
|1990 |4586
|1999 |4555
|2007 |4636
|2012 |5204
|2017 |5412
}}

==Sights==
* The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
* The eighteenth-century château.

==Personalities==
* Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the [[Arctic]] in 1928 with [[Roald Amundsen]].

==International relations==
Audruicq is twinned with:
{{Flag icon|ENG}} [[Hawkhurst]] in [[Kent]], England, since 1998.

==See also==
*[[Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Audruicq}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080217061502/http://home.nordnet.fr/~gbally/ Audruicq, a stroll in the past]
* [http://www.allworldwars.com/The-German-Air-Force-In-The-Great-War-by-Neumann.html The German Air Force in the Great War] The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq

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{{Hawkhurst}}

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[[Category:Communes of Pas-de-Calais]]


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