Bollezeele
Commune
A view within Bollezeele
Coat of arms
Location of Bollezeele
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Coordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E / 50.8653°N 2.3247°E / 50.8653; 2.3247
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkirk
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Hauts de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Marle[1]
Area 1	17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,423
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59089 /59470
Elevation	2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft) (avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bollezeele (French pronunciation: [bɔlzɛl]; from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3]

It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.

Language

Bollezeele's local speech is traditionally a Flemish dialect, similar to that spoken on the other side of the border with Belgium; this led to the town's being included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae as one of the Germanic dialects in France (the others were all in either Alsace or Moselle).^[4]

Population

Heraldry

The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned : Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)