Walhain
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| Ruins of Walhain castle (12th century)
Ruins of Walhain castle (12th century)
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The municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant
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| Country | Belgium | |
| Community | French Community | |
| Region | Wallonia | |
| Province | Walloon Brabant | |
| Arrondissement | Nivelles | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Laurence Smets (WAL1 [PS]) | |
| • Governing party/ies | IC | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 37.94 km2 (14.65 sq mi) | |
| Population (1 January 2013)[1] | ||
| • Total | 6,549 | |
| • Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) | |
| Postal codes | 1457 | |
| Area codes | 010 | |
| Website | www.walhain.be | |
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Walhain is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Walloon Brabant. It consists of the former municipalities of Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert and Walhain-Saint-Paul.
The Belgian National Geographic Institute, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the geographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[2]
Villages of the municipality
Walhain-Saint-Paul, Walhain, Sart-lez-Walhain, Nil-Saint-Vincent, Nil-Saint-Martin, Nil-Pierreux, Lerinnes, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert, Tourinnes les Ourdons et Perbais
Sports
Walhain has two successful national division sport teams:
Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club, RFC Wallonia Walhain CG playing in the Promotion D, which is the 4th tier of Belgian football league. They unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 after more than 10 years in the third division.
They also have a good volleyball club, with both women's and men's teams playing in the second national division (the first division in Belgium being professional).
References
- ↑ Population per municipality on 1 January 2013 (XLS; 607.5 KB)
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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| Chastre | Gembloux (WNA) |
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