Walloon Brabant
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Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia and of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Liège, Namur and Hainaut. Its capital is Wavre. It has a surface area of 1093 km² and contains only one administrative district (arrondissement in French) with 27 municipalities.
Walloon Brabant was created in 1995 by the split of the former province of Brabant into three parts: two new provinces, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant; and the Brussels Capital Region, which no longer belongs to any province. The split was made to accommodate (with a delay) the division of Belgium in three regions (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels).
- Population: 347,423 inhabitants (as of 1/1/1999)
- Population density: 319 inh./km²
The history of Brabant is at Brabant; see also Duke of Brabant.
Nivelles District:
- Beauvechain
- Braine-l'Alleud
- Braine-le-Château
- Chastre
- Chaumont-Gistoux
- Court-Saint-Etienne
- Genappe
- Grez-Doiceau
- Hélécine
- Incourt
- Ittre
- Jodoigne
- La Hulpe
- Lasne
- Mont-Saint-Guibert
- Nivelles
- Orp-Jauche
- Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- Perwez
- Ramillies
- Rebecq
- Rixensart
- Tubize
- Villers-la-Ville
- Walhain
- Waterloo
- Wavre
External links
- The province's official site, in English, French, Dutch and German (http://www.brabantwallon.be/en)
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