Hainaut

Hainaut

(French: Hainaut)
Country	Belgium
Region	Wallonia
Capital	Mons
Area	3,800 km²
Population 2004	1,283,200
Density	338 / km²
Governor	Claude Durieux
Official Site

Hainaut (French; English traditionally Hainault, Dutch: Henegouwen (help·info), German: Hennegau, Walloon: Hinnot) is the westernmost province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the North) in Belgium on the provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant (Flanders) and those of Walloon Brabant and Namur (Wallonia), and on France. Its capital is Mons. It has an area of 3,800 km² which is divided into seven administrative districts (French: arrondissements) containing 69 municipalities. See the medieval history of the County of Hainaut. The Hainaut is also in the Nord department in northern France : district of Valenciennes, Bavay.

Districts

Ath District

• Ath
• Belœil
• Bernissart
• Brugelette
• Chièvres
• Ellezelles
• Flobecq
• Frasnes-lez-Anvaing

Charleroi District

• Aiseau-Presles
• Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
• Charleroi
• Châtelet
• Courcelles
• Farciennes
• Fleurus
• Fontaine-l'Evêque
• Gerpinnes
• Les Bons Villers
• Manage
• Montigny-le-Tilleul
• Pont-à-Celles
• Seneffe

Mons District

• Boussu
• Colfontaine
• Dour
• Frameries
• Hensies
• Honnelles
• Jurbise
• Lens
• Mons
• Quaregnon
• Quévy
• Quiévrain
• Saint-Ghislain

Mouscron District

• Comines-Warneton
• Mouscron

Soignies District

• Braine-le-Comte
• Ecaussinnes
• Enghien
• La Louvière
• Le Roeulx
• Lessines
• Silly
• Soignies

Thuin District

• Anderlues
• Beaumont
• Binche
• Chimay
• Erquelinnes
• Estinnes
• Froidchapelle
• Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes
• Lobbes
• Merbes-le-Château
• Momignies
• Morlanwelz
• Sivry-Rance
• Thuin

Tournai District

• Antoing
• Brunehaut
• Celles
• Estaimpuis
• Leuze-en-Hainaut
• Mont-de-l'Enclus
• Pecq
• Péruwelz
• Rumes
• Tournai

Governors

• Jean-Baptiste Thorn (1836 – 1841)
• Charles Liedts (1841 – 1845)
• Édouard Mercier (1845 – 1847)
• Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (1847 – 1848)
• Adolphe de Vrière (1848 – 1849)
• Louis Troye (1849 – 1870)
• Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1870 – 1878)
• Auguste Wanderpepen (1878)
• Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem (1878 – 1884)
• Auguste Vergote (1884 – 1885)
• Joseph d'Ursel (1885 – 1889)
• Charles d'Ursel (1889 – 1893)
• Raoul du Sart de Bouland (1893 – 1908)
• Maurice Damoiseaux (1908 – 1937)
• Henri Van Mol (1937 – 1940)
• Émile Cornez (1944 – 1967)
• Emilien Vaes (1967 – 1983)
• Michel Tromont (1983 – 2004)
• Claude Durieux (2004 – present day)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hainaut (Province of Belgium)

• Official web site of the Hainaut province (available in French)
• Official gateway to the Hainaut (available in French and Dutch [1])
• The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hainaut (available in French and English)
• Euro Info Centre Hainaut (available in French)
• Walloon Settlers Monument

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Coordinates: 50°30′N 03°55′E / 50.5°N 3.917°E / 50.5; 3.917