Namur (province)

	Namur
	Province of Belgium
	Namur, the citadel and the Meuse.
Flag	Coat of arms
Country	Belgium
Region	Wallonia
Capital	Namur
- coordinates	50°28′N 4°52′E / 50.467°N 4.867°E
Highest point	Croix-Scaille
- location	Gedinne, Dinant, Namur
- elevation	504 m (1,654 ft)
- coordinates	49°57′03″N 4°50′44″E / 49.95083°N 4.84556°E
Area	3,666 km² (1,415 sq mi)
Population	489,204 (1 January 2016)
Density	133 /km² (344 /sq mi)
Subdivisions	3 Arrondissements; 38 Municipalities
Governor	Denis Mathen
Timezone	CET (UTC+1)
- summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes	5000–5999
ISO 3166-2	BE-WNA
	Location of the Namur province
	Website: Official site

Coordinates: 50°28′N 4°52′E / 50.467°N 4.867°E

Namur (Dutch: Namen; Walloon: Nameur) is a province of Belgium on the border with France. It is one of the five provinces of Wallonia, the predominantly French-speaking southern region of Belgium.

HistoryEdit

The origin of the province of Namur goes back to 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands and the Principality of Liège joint the French Republic; they were made part of the old department of Sambre-et-Meuse.

At the fall of the First French Empire, the department is dissolved and replaced by the Province of Namur, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. The province of Namur was one of the province created by the Constitution of 24 August 1815 of the Kingdom.

When the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ended after the 1830 Belgian Revolution, the province of Namur became part of the new Kingdom of Belgium.

GeographyEdit

Namur borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France.

The total area of the province is 3,666 km² (1,415 sq mi) with 489,204 inhabitants,^[1] and a population density of 133.4 inhabitants per km². The highest point of the province is Croix-Scaille, with an altitude of 504 m (1,654 ft) (49°57′03″N 4°50′44″E / 49.95083°N 4.84556°E / 49.95083; 4.84556) above sea level.

Its capital is the city of Namur; other important cities are Dinant, Philippeville, Gembloux, Ciney and Andenne.

Administrative divisionEdit

The province of Namur is divided into 3 arrondissements and a total of 38 municipalities.

Map of the municipalities of Namur
(names are in the following table)

**Municipalities by *arrondissements*, with their numbers in the map**
Dinant	Namur	Philippeville
Anhée (2) Beauraing (4) Bièvre (5) Ciney (7) Dinant (9) Gedinne (16) Hamois (19) Hastière (20) Havelange (21) Houyet (22) Onhaye (28) Rochefort (31) Somme-Leuze (34) Vresse-sur-Semois (36) Yvoir (38)	Andenne (1) Assesse (3) Eghezée (11) Fernelmont (12) Floreffe (13) Fosses-la-Ville (15) Gembloux (17) Gesves (18) Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (23) La Bruyère (24) Mettet (25) Namur (26) Ohey (27) Profondeville (30) Sambreville (32) Sombreffe (33)	Cerfontaine (6) Couvin (8) Doische (10) Florennes (14) Philippeville (29) Viroinval (35) Walcourt (37)

Population by arrondissementEdit

Population on 1 January of each year.^[2]

Arrondissement	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012^[1]
Dinant	104,017	104,719	105,378	105,998	107,099	107,593
Namur	294,320	296,494	298,835	301,472	304,287	306,672
Philippeville	63,646	64,167	64,392	64,811	65,449	65,840
Province of Namur	461,983	465,380	468,605	472,281	476,835	480,105

ReferencesEdit

Other websitesEdit

Wikivoyage has a travel guide about: Province of Namur

[r-pop-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Population per municipality as of 1 January 2016 (XLS; 397 KB)

[2] Institut National de Statistique - Direction générale Statistique et Information économique

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