Hainaut
Hainaut is the westernmost province of Wallonia, the francophone region of Belgium. It is densely populated and has an intensely industrial heritage related to coal mining and heavy industry attracted by its once-rich coal deposits.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Charleroi and Mons.
Charleroi
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Charleroi, on the river Sambre, is the third largest municipality and fifth-largest city of Belgium. It is in Hainaut province of Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium.
Mons
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Mons is the capital of the Belgian province of Hainaut, in the region of Wallonia. The town is a worthy place to base yourself for a multi-day exploration of the Hainaut region.
Tournai
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Tournai is a city in Wallonia. It is famed for its impressive Romanesque Cathedral. It was also the only Belgian city to ever be controlled by the English Throne.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as La Louvière and Binche.
La Louvière
La Louvière is an industrial city of 80,000 inhabitants in Wallonia, Belgium. It is centrally located between Charleroi and Mons.
Binche
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Binche is a small town in the Belgian province of Hainaut about 34 miles south of Brussels. The Carnival de Binche Belgium's most famous carnival, attracts thousands of visitors annually.
Ath
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Ath is a French-speaking town of about 30,000 inhabitants in the centre of western Hainaut, mid-way between Brussels and Lille in France. Famous for the annual Ducasse festival, this typically Belgian small town with architecture from different eras can make a nice daytrip from Brussels or Lille.
Chimay
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Chimay is in Belgium, near the French border. Chimay is located in the southern tip of the province Hainaut. The municipality of Chimay consists of 14 villages.
Thuin
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Thuin is a small, partly hilltop town south-west of Charleroi in the Belgian province of Hainaut on the river Sambre. For rail fans, there is the ASVi museum featuring historic trams from the Vicinal era.
Spiennes
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Spiennes is a small village with about a thousand inhabitants in Wallonia, close to Mons. The town itself is mostly an attraction for what it once was, that being the foremost Neolithic production centre of pre-historic Europe.
Cambron-Casteau
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Cambron-Casteau is a French-speaking village located in the Hainaut province of Belgium, mid-way between Brussels and Lille. Its most notable attraction, drawing over 1.7 million visitors per year, is animal park Pairi Daiza.
Hainaut
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,360,000 residents
- Description: province in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “BE-WHT”, “Hainaut (province)”, “Hainaut Province”, “Henegouwen”, and “Heynowes”
- Neighbors: East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Namur, Walloon Brabant, and West Flanders
- Location: Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hainaut” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hainaut”
- Albanian: “Provinca Hainaut”
- Arabic: “هينو”
- Aragonese: “Hainaut”
- Armenian: “Էնո”
- Asturian: “Hainaut”
- Azerbaijani: “Eno”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Hainaut”
- Basque: “Hainauteko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Генегау (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Генегау”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Генегау”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Эно”
- Belarusian: “Эно (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Эно”
- Bengali: “হাইনট”
- Breton: “Hainaut”
- Bulgarian: “Ено”
- Catalan: “Hainaut”
- Cebuano: “Province du Hainaut”
- Chinese: “Hainaut Séng”
- Chinese: “埃诺省”
- Chinese: “埃諾”
- Chinese: “埃諾省”
- Croatian: “Hainaut”
- Czech: “Henegavsko”
- Danish: “Hainaut”
- Dutch: “Henegouwen”
- Dutch: “Provincie Henegouwen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هينو”
- Esperanto: “Henegovio”
- Estonian: “Hainaut’ provints”
- Estonian: “Hainaut”
- Finnish: “Hainaut’n provinssi”
- French: “Hainaut”
- French: “province de Hainaut”
- French: “Province de Hainaut”
- Galician: “Provincia de Hainaut”
- Georgian: “ენოს პროვინცია”
- German: “Hennegau”
- German: “Provinz Hennegau”
- Greek: “Αινώ”
- Gujarati: “હૈનૌટ”
- Hebrew: “אנו”
- Hindi: “हैनौत (प्रांत)”
- Hindi: “हैनौत”
- Hungarian: “Hainaut”
- Icelandic: “Hainaut”
- Ido: “Heno-provinco”
- Indonesian: “Hainaut (provinsi)”
- Indonesian: “Hainaut”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Hainaut”
- Irish: “Hainaut”
- Italian: “Annonia”
- Italian: “provincia dell’Hainaut”
- Italian: “Provincia dell’Hainaut”
- Japanese: “エノー州”
- Kannada: “ಹೈನಾಟ್”
- Kölsch: “Hennot”
- Korean: “에노주”
- Latin: “Hannonia”
- Latin: “Henogovia”
- Latvian: “Eno”
- Limburgan: “Henegouwe”
- Lithuanian: “Heno provincija”
- Low German: “Hainego”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Hainaut”
- Macedonian: “Ено”
- Malay: “Hainaut”
- Marathi: “एनो”
- Marathi: “ऐनो प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hainaut Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Hennegau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hainaut”
- Norwegian: “Hainaut”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Enaut”
- Ossetian: “Эно”
- Persian: “استان انو”
- Picard: “Hénau”
- Polish: “Hainaut”
- Polish: “Prowincja Hainaut”
- Portuguese: “Hainaut”
- Pushto: “هايناوت ولايت”
- Romanian: “Hainaut”
- Russian: “Геннегау”
- Russian: “Хенегаувен”
- Russian: “Эно”
- Scots: “Hainaut”
- Serbian: “Ено”
- Serbian: “Провинција Ено”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hainaut (provincija)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hainaut”
- Sinhala: “හයිනෞට් පළාත, බෙල්ජියම”
- Sinhala: “හයිනෞට්”
- Slovak: “Hennegavsko”
- Slovenian: “Hainaut”
- Slovenian: “Henegouwen”
- Slovenian: “provinca Hainaut”
- Spanish: “Hainaut”
- Spanish: “Henao”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Henao”
- Swedish: “Hainaut”
- Tamil: “ஹாய்நட்”
- Tamil: “ஹெயினாட்”
- Tamil: “ஹேனவுட்”
- Telugu: “హాయినాట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแอโน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Provinz Hennegau”
- Turkish: “Hainaut”
- Ukrainian: “Ено”
- Urdu: “ہائنو”
- Uzbek: “Hainaut provinsiyasi”
- Vietnamese: “Hainaut”
- Vlaams: “Enegouwn”
- Volapük: “Hainaut”
- Walloon: “Province do Hinnot”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hainaut”
- Welsh: “Hainaut”
- Welsh: “Hanawt”
- Western Frisian: “Henegouwen”
- Western Panjabi: “حینا”
- Western Panjabi: “ہینو”
- Wu Chinese: “埃诺省”
- Yue Chinese: “埃諾”
- Zeeuws: “Enegouwe”
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