Wallonia
Wallonia is the French-speaking southern part of Belgium. Bordered by Flanders in the North and France in the South-West, its Eastern border is shared by Luxembourg and Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Liège and Namur.
Liège
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Liège is the largest city of Wallonia. This industrial city is actually quite green, with wide boulevards, an interesting, if a bit disorderly, mix of architecture from different periods, much greenery and picturesque riverbanks and hillsides.
Namur
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Namur's location at the head of the Ardennes has made it a popular tourist centre. The town's most prominent sight is the Citadel of Namur, now demilitarised and open to the public.
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.
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Liège
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Liège is the easternmost province of Wallonia, the primarily French-speaking region of Belgium. Liège Province is the only Belgian province that has borders with three countries.
Hainaut
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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.
Luxembourg
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The province of Luxembourg is the southernmost and largest province in the Wallonia region of Belgium. It is bordered to the east by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and to the southwest by France.
Namur
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Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and the French department of Ardennes.
Walloon Brabant
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Walloon Brabant is a province located in Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia. It borders on the province of Flemish Brabant and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut.
Wallonia
- Type: Province with 3,690,000 residents
- Description: region of Belgium
- Also known as: “BE-WAL”, “BE3”, “Walloon”, and “Walloon Region”
- Neighbors: Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Limburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Rhineland-Palatinate
- Categories: region of Belgium and locality
- Location: Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude of center
50.3155° or 50° 18′ 56″ northLongitude of center
5.0098° or 5° 0′ 35″ eastPopulation
3,690,000Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 13413489785OpenStreetMap feature
place=province
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Wallonia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waalse Gewes”
- Afrikaans: “Wallonië”
- Albanian: “Valonia”
- Arabic: “إقليم والونيا”
- Arabic: “فالونيا”
- Arabic: “والونيا”
- Arabic: “وَلُونِية”
- Aragonese: “Valonia”
- Armenian: “Վալոնիա”
- Arpitan: “Valonie”
- Asturian: “rexón de Valonia”
- Asturian: “Valonia”
- Azerbaijani: “Valloniya”
- Balinese: “Wallonia”
- Basque: “Valonia”
- Belarusian: “Валёнія”
- Belarusian: “Валонія”
- Bosnian: “Valonija”
- Breton: “Wallonia”
- Bulgarian: “Валония”
- Bulgarian: “Валонски регион”
- Catalan: “Valònia”
- Cebuano: “Wallonia”
- Central Kurdish: “والۆنیا”
- Central Kurdish: “واڵۆنیا”
- Chinese: “Wallonie”
- Chinese: “瓦隆”
- Chinese: “瓦隆大区”
- Chinese: “華隆”
- Chuvash: “Валлони”
- Corsican: “Regione Vallone”
- Corsican: “Vallonia”
- Croatian: “Valonija”
- Czech: “Valonsko”
- Danish: “Vallonien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wallonya”
- Dutch: “Waals Gewest”
- Dutch: “Waals”
- Dutch: “Wallonie”
- Dutch: “Wallonië”
- Esperanto: “Valona Regiono”
- Esperanto: “Valonio”
- Esperanto: “Valonujo”
- Estonian: “Valloonia”
- Finnish: “Vallonia”
- French: “Région wallonne”
- French: “Région Wallonne”
- French: “Wallonie”
- Galician: “Valonia”
- Georgian: “ვალონია”
- German: “Wallonie”
- German: “Wallonien”
- German: “Wallonische Region”
- German: “Wallonische”
- Greek: “Βαλλονία”
- Greek: “Βαλλωνία”
- Greek: “Βαλλωνική Περιοχή”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Βαλλωνίας”
- Hebrew: “ולוניה”
- Hindi: “वालोनिया”
- Hindi: “वेलोनिया”
- Hungarian: “Vallon Régió”
- Hungarian: “Vallónia”
- Icelandic: “Vallónía”
- Indonesian: “Wallonia”
- Indonesian: “Walonia”
- Interlingue: “Wallonia”
- Irish: “an Vallóin”
- Irish: “An Vallóin”
- Irish: “an Vallúin”
- Irish: “Réigiún na Vallúine”
- Italian: “Regione Vallone”
- Italian: “Vallonia”
- Japanese: “ベルギー”
- Japanese: “ワロン地域”
- Kirghiz: “Валлония”
- Korean: “왈롱”
- Kurdish: “Walonya”
- Latin: “Vallonia”
- Latin: “Wallonia”
- Latvian: “Valonija”
- Limburgan: “Wallonië”
- Lithuanian: “Valonija”
- Lombard: “Vallonia”
- Lombard: “Valonia”
- Low German: “Waalnlaand”
- Luxembourgish: “Wallonie”
- Luxembourgish: “Wallounesch Regioun”
- Luxembourgish: “Wallounien”
- Macedonian: “Валонија”
- Malay: “Wallonia”
- Malay: “Walonia”
- Maltese: “Wallonja”
- Manx: “Yn Walloon”
- Marathi: “वालोनिया”
- Marathi: “वालोनी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wallonie”
- Narom: “Ouallonnie”
- Nepali: “वालुन क्षेत्र”
- Northern Frisian: “Wallonii”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vallonia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vallonia”
- Norwegian: “Vallonia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Valonia”
- Ossetian: “Валлони”
- Papiamento: “Wallonie”
- Papiamento: “Walonia”
- Persian: “والونی”
- Persian: “والونیا”
- Picard: “Walonnie”
- Piemontese: “Valònia”
- Polish: “Region Waloński”
- Polish: “Walonia”
- Portuguese: “Valónia”
- Portuguese: “Valônia”
- Romanian: “Valonia”
- Romanian: “Wallonia”
- Russian: “Валлония”
- Russian: “Валлонский регион Бельгии”
- Santali: “ᱟᱞᱳᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
- Santali: “ᱣᱟᱞᱳᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
- Scots: “Wallonie”
- Scots: “Walloon Region”
- Serbian: “Валонија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valonija”
- Sindhi: “والونيا”
- Sinhala: “වොලෝනියා කලාපය, බෙල්ජියම”
- Slovak: “Valónsko”
- Slovak: “Valónsky región”
- Slovenian: “Valonija”
- Spanish: “Región Valona”
- Spanish: “Valona”
- Spanish: “Valonia”
- Swahili: “Wallonia”
- Swedish: “Vallonien”
- Tagalog: “Valonia”
- Tamil: “வல்லோனியா”
- Tamil: “வால்லொனியா”
- Thai: “เขตวอลลูน”
- Thai: “เขตวัลลูน”
- Thai: “แคว้นวอลลูน”
- Thai: “วอลโลเนีย”
- Thai: “วัลโลเนีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Wallonische Region”
- Turkish: “Valonya”
- Ukrainian: “Валлонія”
- Urdu: “والونیا”
- Vietnamese: “Wallonie”
- Vlaams: “Wallonië”
- Vlaams: “Woals Gewest”
- Volapük: “Valän”
- Volapük: “Valonän”
- Walloon: “Redjon walone”
- Walloon: “Waloneye”
- Walloon: “Walonîye”
- Walloon: “Walonreye”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wallonie”
- Welsh: “Walonia”
- Western Frisian: “Waalsk Gewest”
- Western Frisian: “Walloanje”
- Western Panjabi: “ویلونیا”
- Wu Chinese: “瓦隆大区”
- Yiddish: “וואלאניע”
- Yue Chinese: “華隆”
- Zeeuws: “Wallonië”
- “Wallonia”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wallonia”. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.