Walhain

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Walhain
Municipality of Belgium

Ruins of the castle (12th century).

Coat of arms

Walhain
Location in Belgium

Coordinates:

5038N 0442ECoordinates: 5038N 0442E Belgium French Community Wallonia

Country Community Region

Province Arrondissement Government Mayor Governing party/ies Area Total

Walloon Brabant Nivelles

Laurence Smets (WAL1 [PS]) IC

37.94 km2(14.65 sq mi)

Population (1 January 2012)[1] Total Density Postal codes Area codes Website
Map of Walhain[show]

6,549 170/km2 (450/sq mi) 1457 010 www.walhain.be

For Wisconsin community, see Walhain, Wisconsin. 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 WalhainSaint-Paul. Walhain is locally famous because, although it is quite a little village, they have two successful national division sport teams. Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club, RFC Wallonia Walhain CGplaying 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). The Belgian National Geographic Institute, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that thegeographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at 503828N 44005E.[2]

References[edit]
1. ^ Population per municipality on 1 January 2012 (XLS; 214 KB) 2. ^ "Centre gographique - Le Site" (in French). Municipality of Walhain. Archived from the original on 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2007-03-09. [hide]

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Nivelles

Incourt

Ittre

Jodoigne

La Hulpe

Lasne

Mont-Saint-Guibert

Nivelles

Orp-Jauche

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve Perwez

Ramillies

Rebecq

Rixensart

Tubize

Villers-la-Ville

Walhain Waterloo

Wavre

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