Namur (province)

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Namur
(Dutch: Namen)
Province of Belgium
Flag province namur.svg
Flag
Wapen van Namen (provincie).svg
Coat of arms
Province de Namur in Belgium.svg
Coordinates: 50°28′N04°51′E / 50.467°N 4.850°E / 50.467; 4.850 Coordinates: 50°28′N04°51′E / 50.467°N 4.850°E / 50.467; 4.850
CountryFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
RegionFlag of Wallonia.svg  Wallonia
Capital Namur
Government
  Governor Denis Mathen
Area
  Total 3,664 km2 (1,415 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2017) [1]
  Total 491,285
  Density 130/km2 (350/sq mi)
Website Official site

Namur (Dutch: Loudspeaker.svg   Namen  , Walloon : Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur.

Dutch language West Germanic language

Dutch(Nederlands ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 23 million people as a first language and 5 million people as a second language, constituting the majority of people in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives English and German.

Walloon language language

Walloon is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia in Belgium, in some villages of Northern France and in the northeast part of Wisconsin until the mid 20th century and in some parts of Canada. It belongs to the langue d'oïl language family, whose most prominent member is the French language. The historical background of its formation was the territorial extension since 980 of the Principality of Liège to the south and west.

Wallonia Region of Belgium

Wallonia is a region of Belgium. As the southern portion of the country, Wallonia is primarily French-speaking, and accounts for 55% of Belgium's territory and a third of its population. The Walloon Region was not merged with the French Community of Belgium, which is the political entity responsible for matters related mainly to culture and education, because the French Community of Belgium encompasses both Wallonia and the majority French-Speaking Brussels-Capital Region.

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Subdivisions

Municipal divisions of Namur (click on image for full legend). NamenGemeenten.png
Municipal divisions of Namur (click on image for full legend).

It has an area of 3,664 square kilometres (1,415 sq mi) and is divided into three administrative districts (arrondissements in French) containing a total of 38 municipalities (communes in French).

Arrondissements of Belgium are subdivisions below the provinces of Belgium. There are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.

French language Romance language

French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

Map no. Municipality Arrondissement
1 Andenne Namur
2 Anhée Dinant
3 Assesse Namur
4 Beauraing Dinant
5 Bièvre Dinant
6 Cerfontaine Philippeville
7 Ciney Dinant
8 Couvin Philippeville
9 Dinant Dinant
10 Doische Philippeville
11 Éghezée Namur
12 Fernelmont Namur
13 Floreffe Namur
14 Florennes Philippeville
15 Fosses-la-Ville Namur
16 Gedinne Dinant
17 Gembloux Namur
18 Gesves Namur
19 Hamois Dinant
20 Hastière Dinant
21 Havelange Dinant
22 Houyet Dinant
23 Jemeppe-sur-Sambre Namur
24 La Bruyère Namur
25 Mettet Namur
26 Namur Namur
27 Ohey Namur
28 Onhaye Dinant
29 Philippeville Philippeville
30 Profondeville Namur
31 Rochefort Dinant
32 Sambreville Namur
33 Sombreffe Namur
34 Somme-Leuze Dinant
35 Viroinval Philippeville
36 Vresse-sur-Semois Dinant
37 Walcourt Philippeville
38 Yvoir Dinant

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References

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